All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 10 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its 2022 WCIRB Geo Study, which underscores regional differences in claim characteristics across California.Key findings include: Even after...
Nov 9 2022 // New Jersey workers’ compensation and employer liability insurance rates will be cut an average 6.1% beginning January 1, 2023.The reduction is more than the 4.7% decrease that industry’s rating bureau had...
Nov 8 2022 // Four workers were injured, including one critically, by a release of carbon dioxide in a Los Angeles International Airport utility room, authorities said.One man was initially in grave condition but was upgraded to...
Nov 8 2022 // The Florida insurance commissioner has approved a decrease in overall workers’ compensation rates for 2023, and he did not demand a sharper decrease from actuaries.The National Council on Compensation Insurance in...
Nov 8 2022 // Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million after allegedly failing to follow prescription pricing procedures intended to keep costs down and prevent overcharges in the state’s...
Nov 7 2022 // The Florida Division of Workers Compensation will hold a workshop Nov. 16 on proposed changes to rules that govern when and how corporate officers can exempt themselves from workers’ compensation coverage.Current...
Nov 7 2022 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready announced that businesses should see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023. The Oklahoma Insurance Department has approved...
Nov 3 2022 // A month after federal regulators hit Dollar General stores with $1.6 million in fines for safety violations, the retailer now faces an additional $2.7 million in penalties for similar problems in Alabama, Florida and...
Nov 2 2022 // Edgardo Cabrales Sr., 61, and his son, Edgar Cabrales Jr., 36, both of San Jose, California, were charged with five felony counts each of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they...
Oct 31 2022 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, announced that it will extend coverage to out-of-state employees for the first time.Under the initiative, any New...
Oct 28 2022 // A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards.The U.S....
Oct 27 2022 // New York labor law requires a municipality to negotiate when terminating employees who are not at work for over a year because of an on-the-job injury, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled.The state’s high court...
Oct 24 2022 // Connecticut businesses will see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023.The Connecticut Insurance Department has officially approved an average decrease of 3% to...
Oct 21 2022 // During the height of the pandemic, New York workers’ compensation indemnity payments increased while medical payments decreased.That’s according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Oct 20 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed FedEx from a lawsuit filed by relatives of five of the eight people who were fatally shot last year at an Indianapolis warehouse by a former employee of the shipping giant.U.S. District Judge...
Oct 18 2022 // The Idaho Department of Insurance accepted a 11.5% reduction in rates, effective January 1, 2023. This follows the National Council on Compensation Insurance submission of its annual rate recommendation to the Idaho...
Oct 18 2022 // Delaware workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the sixth year in a row, effective December 1, 2022. Both the voluntary market and the residual market will see rate decreases in the double...
Oct 17 2022 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest of Rene Carlos Aguero, 71, and Gustavo Adolfo Lopez, 56, for allegedly submitting fraudulent vocational training vouchers for workers’...
Oct 13 2022 // More than a half of all reported COVID-19 indemnity claims in California continue to arise from workers in the healthcare sector, according to a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.The...
Oct 12 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has adopted amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code §180.62, concerning the Medical Quality Review Panel (MQRP). DWC proposed this rule...