All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2023 // A drywall contractor has been sentenced to six months in jail for defrauding the New York State workers’ compensation insurance fund out of almost $3 million in premiums over an eight-year period.The Manhattan...
Sep 15 2023 // A US Treasury Department unit that investigates financial crimes has directed banks to send alerts when they come across suspicious activity that indicates a business is using check cashing companies to avoid payroll taxes...
Sep 13 2023 // RT Specialty Promotes Mitchell to President of Workers’ Compensation PracticeRT Specialty promoted Jim Mitchell to national workers’ compensation practice president. Mitchell has been with RT Specialty since...
Sep 13 2023 // A pair of Iowa men were charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau.Trey Wysocki, age 40, of New Virginia was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud...
Sep 12 2023 // It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability because he had personal and religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.The Virginia Workers’...
Sep 11 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed three bills into law that affect workers, including one raising the minimum disability benefit under workers’ compensation over three years.The second new law prohibits employers...
Sep 8 2023 // A workers’ compensation fund for Mississippi state agencies can take subrogation action against the driver of an all-terrain vehicle that badly injured the then-chief of staff to the state’s lieutenant...
Sep 8 2023 // Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to an update from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.The decline marks 11 years of average decreases in the...
Sep 7 2023 // The Delaware Supreme Court has broken with its own precedent to rule that a workers’ compensation insurance carrier may assert a lien against benefits an injured employee recovers from other sources.The particular...
Sep 4 2023 // After three major Georgia appeals court decisions have gone against employers in the last five years, some insurance defense attorneys are concerned that the state’s workers’ compensation laws have become...
Sep 1 2023 // Caro Joins Alliant Insurance Services as VPJohn Caro has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president in its Alliant Americas division. Caro is based in Lafayette, La. Alliant is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. Caro...
Sep 1 2023 // A Pierce County, Washington man who removed and installed roofs while claiming he was too injured to work has pleaded guilty to stealing workers’ compensation benefits.Patrick Dean Farthing, 64, pleaded guilty...
Aug 31 2023 // A new Connecticut law making it easier for firefighters who develop cancer to receive workers’ compensation benefits will go into effect on October 1, 2023.Approved as part of the state budget bill, this law creates...
Aug 30 2023 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a 3.9% rate reduction for the state’s public employers, a rate cut that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024.The rate reduction will result in nearly $8 million...
Aug 29 2023 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) recently approved a workers’ compensation rate proposal that will reduce voluntary loss costs by 14% on average.The new rates will apply to policies effective starting on...
Aug 29 2023 // In early June 2022, an employee of a Vermont agricultural equipment company observed the company pumping wastewater from the facility’s service bays onto the ground bordering the Winooski River in Berlin and was...
Aug 29 2023 // Medical providers who treat injured workers in Kentucky must bill the employer/insurer within 45 days, even before a workers’ compensation claim has been filed and before an employer’s liability has been...
Aug 29 2023 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has proposed an average 15.1% decrease in rates for Florida, starting Jan. 1, the latest and one of the largest reduction recommendations in more than a decade of rate...
Aug 24 2023 // The U.S. workplace safety regulator said on Wednesday it was investigating a recent chemical solvent leak at an Ohio battery plant jointly owned by General Motors GM.N and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution...
Aug 23 2023 // Dollar Tree Inc. and subsidiary Family Dollar have entered an agreement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to make operational changes within two years.The Department of Labor’s OSHA said...