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California Insurance Commissioner OKs Upping Workers’ Comp Pure Premium 10.4%

Jul 13 2026 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved workers’ compensation advisory pure premium rates that average 10.4% than last year. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California...

Sompo to Acquire Service Insurance Companies to Expand US Workers Comp

Jul 7 2026 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. said it has a definitive agreement to acquire Service Insurance Companies, a monoline workers’ compensation insurance company. Terms of the transaction were not...

Massachusetts High Court: Regulator Must Explain 14.6% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut

Jul 7 2026 // “As our high school mathematics teachers reminded us: you need to show your work. That is true for the commissioner’s calculations as well.” With that admonition, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...

AM Best Revises Outlook to Positive for Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation

Jul 2 2026 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a+” (Excellent) of Louisiana...

Postal Worker Stole Workers’ Compensation Checks Sent to Girlfriend’s Mother

Jun 30 2026 // A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee has been sentenced on charges that he defrauded the New York workers’ compensation system of nearly $10,000 by stealing wage reimbursement checks intended for his...

Construction Firm Owner Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Jun 26 2026 // A Massachusetts construction firm owner fraudulently misclassified subcontractors as siding workers or painters when they were performing riskier roofing work in order to avoid paying higher workers’ compensation...

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