All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2021 // Restaurants make up a sizable portion of California’s workers’ comp system, a new report shows.The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released the first report in its industry...
Dec 1 2021 // New Mexico insurance regulators are reducing a key component in rates for workers’ compensation coverage that should help employers spend less, starting next year.The Superintendent of Insurance Office announced a...
Dec 1 2021 // The Biden administration on Tuesday extended the comment period on its sweeping workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule by 45 days as it seeks feedback from various stakeholders including private employers on whether a recently...
Nov 30 2021 // The Washington Department of Labor & Industries announced a 3.1% increase in the average worker’s compensation premium rate for hours worked in 2022.“A modest hike is needed because of the rising costs to...
Nov 30 2021 // If federal workplace safety requirements had been followed, a 24-year-old Georgia worker would not have been killed in a front-end loader accident in May, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said.OSHA...
Nov 30 2021 // The Tennessee commissioner of commerce and insurance has ratified a 5.6% decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs for voluntary market in 2022, which will result in the ninth straight year of rate decreases for...
Nov 30 2021 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates in the state will decrease for the fifth year in a row, effective December 1, 2021.The voluntary market is seeing...
Nov 23 2021 // The summer surge of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers’ compensation system in July and August appears to have run its course, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute.A CWCI...
Nov 22 2021 // A recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that medical payments per claim with more than seven days of lost time in Wisconsin were among the highest of 18 states studied and changed little from...
Nov 17 2021 // A bill making it easier for Idaho residents to get workers’ compensation if they become ill after taking an employee-mandated vaccine sailed through the House and headed for the Senate this week.The measure passed...
Nov 16 2021 // New York-based safety technology firm Kinetic has formed an underwriting partnership with Nationwide’s E&S/Specialty division. Acting as program manager, Kinetic Insurance is offering workers’ compensation...
Nov 16 2021 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance is recommending a 7.7 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2022. This marks the largest overall decrease since 2009.“Recommended...
Nov 15 2021 // Marguerite Dixen, a veteran insurance executive, has established Adroit General Agency, a managing general agency providing workers’ compensation insurance along with technology-driven safety, loss prevention and...
Nov 15 2021 // The Georgia Insurers Insolvency Pool’s demand for a refund from an injured worker must first be addressed by the state workers’ compensation board, the Georgia Court of Appeals has decided.The comp board should...
Nov 15 2021 // Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado announced it will lower rates for the carrier’s 53,000-plus policyholders in Colorado by an average of 11% in 2022.The decrease will become effective Jan. 1, 2022. Pinnacol has...
Nov 15 2021 // In addition to weighing in on opportunities in the E&S/specialty lines market segment where prices have been firming, executives speaking at the September KBW Virtual Insurance Conference offered views on the one...
Nov 15 2021 // To reduce employee exposure to health hazards and encourage companies to make workplace safety and health a priority, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s regional office in...
Nov 14 2021 // A federal court declined Friday to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers.The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay...
Nov 7 2021 // NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency...
Nov 5 2021 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance has approved another workers’ compensation loss cost decrease for employers in the state.The DOI announced this week that officials have ratified a 10.4% average reduction,...