Markel and FirstComp have announced a new brand – Markel FirstComp – and a new independent agent portal. Founded in...
workers’ compensation News
How do you contain upwardly spiraling costs, battle growing use and prescription of opioids, fight fraud, de-incentivize bad actors, all...
Despite a 30 percent increase in Oregon’s workforce, the state’s workers’ compensation claims are down sharply since the system was...
A New Jersey workers’ compensation judge recently ruled that a thrift store volunteer cannot be considered as an employee for...
A workers’ compensation proposal for California is getting the backing of the Department of Industrial Relations as well as seeming...
Insurance agency Barney & Barney has outlined a series of steps to help California’s small- to mid-sized employers control the...
The Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has unanimously voted to authorize the WCIRB to make a Jan.1, 2013 filing...
The prison in Woodward, Okla., is so short on guards that inmates can sometimes just walk away. A gas station...

A highly sheltered workers’ comp reform proposal being quietly passed around California’s capitol has the potential to make some noise...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Hebco Products Inc. in Bucyrus, Ohio, with 14...