All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 22 2024 // A New Jersey commercial baker in Paterson faces $385,221 in federal penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer failed to correct workplace safety hazards identified in 2023.The...
Nov 21 2024 // The trend of decreasing rates in Connecticut workers’ compensation insurance will continue as the state’s insurance regulator has approved an industry proposed 6% rate decrease beginning January 1, 2025.The...
Nov 19 2024 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) to Standard and Preferred Insurance Co. of Kew Gardens, New York. The outlook assigned...
Nov 19 2024 // Florida employers will soon see the smallest decrease in workers’ compensation rates in years – just a 1% reduction from current overall rates in the voluntary market.The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation...
Nov 18 2024 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) must do more to address ergonomic hazards at warehouses and delivery companies, where the number of injured workers in the growing sector are on the rise, a...
Nov 18 2024 // A federal workplace safety investigation has found the operator of three Massachusetts waterproofing contracting companies could have prevented an employee from suffering fatal injuries in February 2024 when part of a...
Nov 18 2024 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the eighth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary market is expected to decrease...
Nov 15 2024 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said its enforcement has led to fewer workers dying.OSHA, a part of the Department of Labor, said it investigated 826 worker deaths in fiscal year 2024. This is an 11%...
Nov 15 2024 // A Washington man is being charged in a felony in a $28,000 workers’ compensation scam after a trip the gym seemingly exposed him.Omid Mohammadi Dashti, 41, of Renton, was charged with one count of first-degree theft....
Nov 14 2024 // Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing.The workers’ compensation market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s...
Nov 4 2024 // Workers’ compensation medical payments per claim in California were 10% below the median state of a 17-state study sample for claims with experience through March 2023, a study from the Workers Compensation Research...
Nov 4 2024 // A man banned for life from the California workers’ compensation system after being twice convicted of fraud was charged with billing nearly $100 million as part of an extensive workers’ comp fraud scheme.David...
Oct 31 2024 // An administrative law judge has ordered a Rochester, New York commercial roofing company to pay $16,782 in penalties for safety violations, after an investigation and litigation by the federal government.The company, Elmer...
Oct 31 2024 // New York employers will pay 22% less in the annual assessment to run the state’s workers’ compensation system in 2025.The rate assessed on standard premiums will be 7.1% beginning January 1, 2025, down from...
Oct 30 2024 // Correction: A earlier version of this story had the wrong percentage in the headline. Insurance Journal regrets the error.New Jersey Commissioner of Banking and Insurance Justin Zimmerman has approved a 6.9% statewide...
Oct 25 2024 // The owner of a Fresno, California-based for-profit vocational school was charged with engaging in fraudulent billing practices related to workers’ compensation.Paul Steve Ramirez, 59, was charged with 11 felony...
Oct 24 2024 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute analysis opioid prescription data between 2017 and 2023 from the California Department of Justice’s Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System...
Oct 22 2024 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) must do more to address ergonomic hazards at warehouses and delivery companies, where the number of injured workers in the growing sector are on the rise, a...
Oct 22 2024 // California’s 2025 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2025, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced.The minimum TTD rate will increase from $242.86 to $252.03,...
Oct 21 2024 // Workers’ compensation medical payments per claim in California were 10% below the median state of a 17-state study sample for claims with experience through March 2023, a study from the Workers Compensation Research...