All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2024 // Amazon.com will implement safety measures at all of its U.S. facilities to settle a federal agency’s claims that it failed to prevent workers from developing back problems and other ergonomic injuries, the agency...
Dec 20 2024 // A physician who worked for an Inland Empire medical company has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud California’s workers’ compensation trust fund by continuing to work on workers’ comp matters...
Dec 18 2024 // Federal workplace safety officials have again cited a New Jersey construction contractor for allegedly repeatedly violating safety requirements at three North Jersey worksites, exposing employees to falls from...
Dec 18 2024 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurers have filed for a 7.1% increase in average rates for industrial classes beginning July 1, 2025 — the first rate increase since 2016.Why an increase in 2025? According to...
Dec 18 2024 // The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued $276,425 in penalties to Parkwood Landscape Maintenance based in Van Nuys, California, for willfully violating state heat illness prevention...
Dec 13 2024 // Mega claims in workers’ compensation represent far less than 1% of total workers’ comp claims yet account for more than 2% of total loss dollars, and total in excess of $1 billion each year, a new study from 10...
Dec 13 2024 // A Massachusetts construction business owner was sentenced to 18 months in prison for an employment tax scheme and making a false statement at an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hearing about a...
Dec 12 2024 // Virginia has approved a 12.0% loss cost decrease in the workers’ compensation voluntary market along with rate decreases in the assigned risk market, effective April 1, 2025.The State Corporation Commission (SCC)...
Dec 11 2024 // A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver who was intoxicated when he crashed his semi-trailer delivery truck has been denied workers’ compensation benefits.Delaware Superior Court Judge Kathleen Vavala last week reversed...
Dec 9 2024 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation to expand workers’ compensation benefits to people who are facing job-related mental health crises.The new law, which goes into effect January 1, 2025, allows any...
Dec 6 2024 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) announced that employers should see a reduction in workers’ compensation rates in 2025, marking the fourth straight year of decreased rates.The projected rate...
Dec 5 2024 // Florida-based Summit, a regional provider of workers’ compensation insurance services, announced the expansion of its coverage into Illinois. Summit-managed carriers, Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Co., Bridgefield...
Dec 5 2024 // Claim frequency in California workers’ compensation remains significantly higher in the Los Angeles Basin than in the northern part of the state, a new study shows.The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...
Dec 4 2024 // State-by-state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory culture can lend one the impression that keeping up with industry changes is a little bit like herding cats. So, what...
Dec 2 2024 // The average cost of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington will go up about 3.8% in 2025, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries announced.Employers and workers together will pay on average...
Dec 2 2024 // Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing.The workers’ comp market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s Compensation...
Nov 27 2024 // A worker activist has sued the Department of Labor (DOL) to force the release of records surrounding the deaths of three workers at New Jersey Amazon workplaces in 2022.The lawsuit says DOL’s Occupational Safety and...
Nov 26 2024 // Alex Swedlow said he plans to retire from his post as president of the Oakland-based California Workers’ Compensation Institute.He is stepping down from the helm of CWCI effective August 2025. Swedlow’s...
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...