All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2023 // There will be a jury retrial on allocation of liability in a New Jersey workers’ compensation premium fraud case won by Liberty Insurance Corp. against a construction firm.The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled yesterday...
Feb 15 2023 // On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had died after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near...
Feb 14 2023 // The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to withdraw a proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona’s for occupational safety and...
Feb 10 2023 // The National Football League’s Philadelphia Eagles football team has failed to score a victory in a disability case involving former linebacker Emmanuel Acho who suffered thumb injuries in 2015 while with the...
Feb 9 2023 // Brendan Swift, recently with Elevance Health, has been named vice president for payer partnerships and marketing with ATF Medical, a national provider of rehabilitation equipment and housing solutions for the...
Feb 8 2023 // Few medical treatment denials in California workers’ compensation were overturned last year, a review released on Wednesday shows.The California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted an annual report on the...
Feb 8 2023 // Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill this week that will expand workers’ compensation coverage for full-time firefighters and law enforcement officers.Currently, a full-time firefighter or law enforcement officer who is...
Feb 8 2023 // Kids’ Chance, a charity organization established by the the workers’ compensation industry, has named new board members for its Florida operation.The all-volunteer Kids’ Chance of Florida, like sister...
Feb 8 2023 // Nanuet, New York-based roofing contractor ALJ Home Improvement Inc. is ignoring safety requirements despite having suffered the loss of two workers since 2019 in falls that were preventable, the Occupational Safety and...
Feb 7 2023 // Florida lawmakers will meet Monday to complete a state takeover of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district and expand a migrant relocation program, key conservative priorities of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis...
Feb 6 2023 // The Office of Administrative Law approved the California Division of Workers’ Compensation regulations affecting its Medical-Legal Evaluation program. The regulations include the permanent adoption of emergency...
Feb 3 2023 // Small-business workers compensation provider Pie Insurance has completed its transition to a full-stack carrier.Effective Jan. 1, the company said it acquired nationally licensed insurance company The American Insurance...
Feb 2 2023 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal agency has recommended nearly $200,000 in fines after an apprentice technician died from electrocution at a construction site in Kansas City last year – just a year after another...
Feb 2 2023 // A federal investigation has found a Connecticut contractor’s failure to provide legally required safeguards and make sure they were in place to prevent trench collapses contributed to the death of an employee buried...
Jan 31 2023 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission will hold a hearing Feb. 13 on the proposed, 2023 medical service provider manual, which includes new fee schedules and an anesthesia conversion factor. FairHealth,...
Jan 30 2023 // Judges are often sticklers for court deadlines, but they have to at least give a reason for dismissing a case when a lawyer fails to file a brief on time, the South Carolina Supreme Court said this month in a sharp rebuke...
Jan 27 2023 // Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. within the past week announced two separate indictments alleging workers’ compensation fraud, one totaling $7 million in premiums and the other, $3 million.In one case,...
Jan 27 2023 // Dollar General Corp. is once again facing stiff penalties for workplace safety violations, this time in Florida and Alabama.The U.S. Department of Labor said that just weeks after the nationwide chain of discount stores...
Jan 27 2023 // One of the largest providers of workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky has a new home. Or, rather, a home – its first physical headquarters. The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self Insurers’...
Jan 26 2023 // With proper training, people working in metal casting facilities know that mixing water and molten material can be a serious, if not deadly mistake, as tragic incidents at two Ohio companies in 2022 showed.On July 10, the...