All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 5 2025 // Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that The Builders Group (TBG) has successfully gone live on Insurity Workers’ Comp...
Jun 5 2025 // Workers’ compensation benefits are not available to a worker injured when he was chased and hit by a golf cart driven by a co-worker who claimed he was just horsing around.The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that...
Jun 2 2025 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined Hillsboro-based Renner Trucking and Excavating Inc. $80,804 for repeatedly violating rules intended to protect workers from trenches caving in.Oregon OSHA issued a...
Jun 2 2025 // Workers’ compensation remained a healthy and profitable line in 2024, but claims severity grew with an increase of 6% for medical claim severity and 6% for indemnity claim severity. That’s according to the...
Jun 2 2025 // Written premiums in California stabilized in 2022 through 2024 after the large swings during the pandemic, while the combined ratio rose to the highest level in 14 years, a new report shows.The Workers’ Compensation...
May 29 2025 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reached a settlement agreement with a New Jersey commercial bakery where an employee suffered partial finger amputations in 2023.The company,...
May 28 2025 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) illustrates how rising inflation has impacted the system in recent years.The 2025 edition of the WCRI Medical Price Index for Workers’ Compensation,...
May 27 2025 // Connecticut lawmakers last week moved swiftly to plug what could have been a very costly loophole in workers’ compensation benefits that was created by a state Supreme Court decision in March.The lawmakers...
May 22 2025 // A former Westminster, California, police officer and her stepfather were charged in a large-scale workers’ compensation fraud case after an investigation revealed the officer collected more than $600,000 in...
May 22 2025 // The owner of a San Jose-based security company was sentenced after a California Department of Insurance investigation reportedly uncovered a multiyear scheme to underreport payroll and avoid paying workers’...
May 20 2025 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Michael Caljouw has rejected an industry proposal to raise workers’ compensation rates by 7.1%.As a result, existing rates, which reflect a 14.6% decrease ordered last July, will...
May 19 2025 // Protecdiv, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hired David Castillo as executive vice president and national construction practice leader. In this newly created role, Castillo leads the strategic growth and...
May 19 2025 // Four individuals, including attorneys, were charged after an investigation reportedly revealed a large-scale workers’ compensation fraud scheme allegedly targeted Spanish-speaking workers and involved the illegal...
May 16 2025 // Two experts from risk and claims administration partner Sedgwick outlined a few key workers’ compensation trends worth paying attention to today.The topics were based on Sedgwick data and primarily related to the...
May 15 2025 // Workers’ compensation remained a healthy and profitable line in 2024 but claims severity grew with an increase of 6% for medical claim severity and 6% for indemnity claim severity.That’s according to the...
May 14 2025 // Written premiums in California stabilized in 2022 through 2024 after the large swings during the pandemic, while the combined ratio rose to the highest level in 14 years, a new report shows.The Workers’ Compensation...
May 13 2025 // A grand jury in Orlando last week indicted four Honduran nationals for allegedly operating an off-the-books cash payroll scheme for construction workers that defrauded workers’ compensation insurers and avoided...
May 8 2025 // Oregon workers’ compensation claims fell in 2023 from the previous two years, a report from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services shows. The department received notification of 22,994 accepted...
May 5 2025 // The workers’ compensation market appears to be doing well again.Ahead of its annual “State of the Line” report to be released in early May, National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Chief Actuary...
May 5 2025 // Being an expert in workers’ compensation has become a coveted differentiator for insurance agents and brokers. Unlike some of the more commoditized insurance lines, workers’ comp demands specialized...