All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2020 // Meliton Hernandez Martinez Jr., 23, was arraigned today at the Merced County Superior Court in California on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report, after...
Aug 11 2020 // COVID-19 has become a large chunk of a dwindling number of workers’ compensation claims in Florida and California, limited data shows.The number of COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims reported in California...
Aug 11 2020 // Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence that legal liability protections for businesses, schools and colleges be included in any new coronavirus relief bill is approaching a moment of reckoning.Warning...
Aug 10 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had a tough second quarter with the pandemic taking a toll on most of its operating businesses including Precision Castparts aircraft parts, the BNSF railroad, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Kraft...
Aug 10 2020 // Construction was halted Thursday at a Miami construction site where six workers were hurt when a load of rebar fell from a crane, officials said.A stop-work order was issued for the Brickell 57-floor property, which is a...
Aug 10 2020 // Marlene Cavalcanti, 40, has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of insurance fraud and identity theft after falsifying documents to receive an additional $10,590 on her workers’ compensation claim.Cavalcanti,...
Aug 7 2020 // Six construction workers were injured Wednesday when a large piece of steel rebar fell from a crane and impaled two workers at a Miami construction site.Emergency crews had to cut through the steel to free some of the...
Aug 5 2020 // Pie Insurance, a technology-driven workers’ compensation provider for small businesses, has a new portal that it says makes it easier for agents to submit their workers’ compensation accounts and track their...
Aug 5 2020 // Insurer American International Group Inc. racked up $730 million in COVID-19-related losses during the first half of the year, its chief executive officer said on Tuesday.The pandemic is a “formidable and ongoing...
Aug 4 2020 // An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld citations and penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Aug 3 2020 // Marlene Cavalcanti, 40, has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of insurance fraud and identity theft after falsifying documents to receive an additional $10,590 on her workers’ compensation claim.Cavalcanti,...
Aug 3 2020 // Claims and technology firm Mitchell|Genex has finalized its acquisition of Coventry Workers’ Comp Services in Downers Grove, Ill., from CVS Health.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Coventry Workers’ Comp...
Jul 30 2020 // Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has signed an executive order that state union leaders predict will provide hundreds, possibly thousands, of front-line workers “presumptive eligibility” for workers compensation...
Jul 29 2020 // The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is again extending the deadline for employers that are finding it difficult to pay their workers’ compensation premiums during the COVID-19 outbreak.Under...
Jul 29 2020 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown, Inc. reported second quarter revenues of $598.8 million, an increase of $23.6 million, or 4.1%, compared to the second quarter of the prior year,Commissions and fees increased in the...
Jul 28 2020 // For W.R. Berkley Corp. and most other workers’ compensation carriers, rates have declined for some time. That trend could start reversing itself starting in 2021, CEO W. Robert Berkley Jr. predicted recently.“I...
Jul 27 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged Friday to do more to protect farm workers, grocery clerks and other essential workers – many of whom are Latino –from the health and economic harms of the coronavirus as the...
Jul 27 2020 // The workers’ compensation line is unlikely to generate a profit this year and may not recover in 2021, an insurance industry economist said during a webcast Thursday.Steven N. Weisbart, senior vice president and...
Jul 24 2020 // Baton Rouge, La.-based workers’ compensation insurance carrier, LUBA Workers’ Comp, has expanded its coverage into Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama.Founded in 1991, the company currently writes workers’...
Jul 24 2020 // An Ohio healthcare company has been cited by federal officials for violating respiratory protection standards.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited OHNH EMP LLC...