All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2024 // A Washington man who claimed he was too injured to work while operating a metal fabrication shop faces a felony charge in an alleged $340,000 workers’ compensation scam.Travis Lee Johnson, 52, of Spokane Valley,...
Sep 19 2024 // A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Virginia subsidiary of one of the world’s largest building materials manufacturers fired a truck driver in September 2023 illegally after the employee raised safety...
Sep 13 2024 // Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage in 2025.The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services the decline in workers’ comp rate, which marks 12 years of average...
Sep 12 2024 // EverPeak Insurance, a workers’ compensation insurer that specializes in hard-to-place industries and small businesses, has recently expanded into South Carolina. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Vlad...
Sep 11 2024 // The board of SAIF, a not-for-profit workers’ compensation insurer in Oregon, declared a $60 million dividend for their current policyholders. The funds will start being dispersed starting in October, with 51,288...
Sep 10 2024 // A businessman in south Georgia who called his business a tax preparation site for immigrants is now facing multiple charges that he swindled clients out of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation insurance...
Sep 6 2024 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) reports that it has approved a workers’ compensation rate proposal that will reduce voluntary loss costs by 5.6% on average.The new lower rates will apply to voluntary...
Sep 4 2024 // Annual workers’ compensation rate cuts in the double digits have become routine in almost every U.S. state in recent years. That trend may have now come to an end in Florida, where the National Council on...
Aug 30 2024 // Los Angeles area vocational school owner, Guillermo Frias, 65, of Paramount, and the school’s accounting manager, Yesid Colon, 54, of Baldwin Park, were arraigned following a California Department of Insurance...
Aug 29 2024 // California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited nine employers in Sun Valley following efforts to address the growing number of silicosis cases among stone workers in California.The safety violations...
Aug 26 2024 // New Jersey has raised the cap on fees for attorneys handling workers’ compensation cases from 20% to 25% of settlements.The primary sponsors of S2822/A3986 were Senator Joseph Lagana and Assemblymen Anthony Verrelli...
Aug 26 2024 // FCBI, a self-insurance fund founded 45 years ago to provide workers’ compensation plans to Florida citrus growers, is expanding well beyond the Sunshine State with the acquisition of MidSouth Mutual Insurance Co. in...
Aug 22 2024 // The West Virginia insurance commissioner’s office has adopted a new policy: It will soon begin destroying workers’ compensation claim files that are 10 years old or older.“Given increasing cybersecurity...
Aug 22 2024 // A 56-year-old former Washington State meter reader who claimed she was so traumatized from a workplace dog attack that she fainted at the sight of dogs has pleaded guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud...
Aug 20 2024 // HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi poultry processing plant has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires it to pay $164,814 in fines and put in place enhanced safety measures following...
Aug 13 2024 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending a 9.1% decrease in workers’ compensation loss cost projections for the West Virginia voluntary market. If approved by regulators, it would mark the 20th...
Aug 13 2024 // The South Carolina Court of Appeals has signaled that employers who offer on-site health clinics may not be immune from tort claims from injured or sickened workers. It’s the latest twist to a question that has...
Aug 13 2024 // Federal workplace safety officials say that Adidas America Inc. – maker of one of the world’s best-selling sneakers – faces almost $400,000 in penalties for allegedly continuing to ignore federal...
Aug 9 2024 // The number of workers’ compensation claims for student-on-school-employee assault dropped significantly during the 2023-24 school year, according to data from Gallagher Bassett.This change comes after two years of...
Aug 2 2024 // Federal safety investigators cited a construction company in the deadly collapse of an Idaho airport hangar, saying it exercised a “blatant disregard” for federal safety standards.The Occupational Safety and...