All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2023 // Workplace health and safety are top of mind for employers, especially after a recent incident at a Mars factory, where workers fell into a vat of chocolate. To prevent such accidents, it’s important for businesses to...
May 5 2023 // More than a third of workplace injuries occur during employees’ first year on the job, regardless of age or industry experience, according to a new report from Travelers.In fact, an employee’s time spent in a...
May 4 2023 // The Tennessee General Assembly has approved a workers’ compensation presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is work-related for firefighters, joining several other states that have adopted mental health...
May 2 2023 // The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove that the death was work-related.The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York on May 1...
May 2 2023 // Virginia’s statutory presumption that a COVID-19 disability of a first responder is work-related, which went into effect July 1, 2020, does not require that the employee be diagnosed with COVID-19 on or after that...
May 1 2023 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports it has found that giant online retailer Amazon failed to provide adequate medical treatment for traumatic and chronic injuries at a fulfillment center in...
Apr 28 2023 // A federal administrative law judge has determined that the manager of Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts exposed employees to workplace violence without adequate protections in 2019, particularly at times when...
Apr 27 2023 // The Newport News public school board says the $40 million lawsuit filed against it by the teacher who was shot by a six-year old is barred by the state’s workers’ compensation law that is the exclusive remedy...
Apr 25 2023 // A South African teenage farm worker who suffocated to death after falling into a grain storage bin would still be alive had a Mississippi soybean farm followed federal workplace safety standards, inspectors with the U.S....
Apr 21 2023 // The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited Meeder Equipment Co. of Rancho Cucamonga and referred D&D Construction Specialties Inc. of Sun Valley for criminal prosecution in two separate cases of...
Apr 20 2023 // A Pennsylvania employer cannot be sued for blocking an employee from suing the third party responsible for her workplace injury, the state’s high court has ruled in reversing two lower courts.In a case involving an...
Apr 19 2023 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Governing Committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2023 pure premium rate filing to the state’s Insurance...
Apr 19 2023 // Editor’s note: This article first ran in Insurance Journal’s sister publication, Carrier Management, earlier this month. It was written by CM Editor Susanne Sclafane. The National Council on Compensation...
Apr 18 2023 // California private security company owner Luis Burgos, 50, and his former business partner, Sohan Singh, 57, were charged for their alleged involvement in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme after an...
Apr 17 2023 // Workers’ compensation is getting the job done. Premiums are decreasing, claims are stable and retention is high.But even good news can present its own set of challenges, Burns & Wilcox indicated in its webinar,...
Apr 17 2023 // Nearly a third of injured workers in Massachusetts sought treatment for strains and sprains in a hospital emergency room, while in California and Nevada only 10% did, according to a study by the Workers’ Compensation...
Apr 14 2023 // Amazon’s total injury rate for warehouse workers took a dip last year, but injuries were still worse than they were in 2020, according to an analysis released Wednesday by a coalition of labor unions.The report,...
Apr 13 2023 // Five defendants were arraigned this week on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found a landscaping company some of the defendants owned allegedly...
Apr 11 2023 // The husband of a deceased worker is not ineligible for workers’ compensation death benefits merely because he no longer lived with his wife when she died, a divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.In a 4-2 decision,...
Apr 6 2023 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation rates will fall an average 10.2% starting July 1, a considerably bigger reduction than the industry recommended.Insurance Commissioner Gary Anderson signed off on the cut that will...