All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2021 // Angel Maces, 23, of San Jacinto, Calif., was arraigned for felony insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting symptoms following a work-related injury in order to receive over $42,000 in undeserved workers’...
Mar 24 2021 // Two workers fell about 30 feet off the roof of a duplex under construction in Massachusetts early Friday and were flown to hospitals, authorities saidThe Mashpee Fire Department responded to the call around 8:30 a.m.,...
Mar 23 2021 // Despite the softening of rates and the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, one Midwest-based workers’ compensation insurance provider that opened its doors just over three years ago reports that it not only has...
Mar 22 2021 // Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado is distributing general dividend checks to its customers totaling $50 millionThis is the sixth straight year the workers’ compensation carrier has distributed dividends. Nearly 53,000...
Mar 22 2021 // A Texas legislator has filed a package of bills he says is aimed at protecting injured first responders and their families.Rep. Jared Patterson, a freshman legislator representing District 106 in Denton County, serves on...
Mar 22 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will continue to decrease in Louisiana with a new rate reduction beginning in May, the insurance department reported.Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon approved a loss...
Mar 22 2021 // Veronica Catalina Cortes-Ambrosio, 53, of Madera, Calif., was charged on two felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly lying about physical limitations from an injury at work in an attempt to receive undeserved...
Mar 16 2021 // Matthew Zender of AmTrust North America, who has served on the executive committee of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute since 2018, has been reelected to serve another one-year term as chairman of the...
Mar 15 2021 // Veronica Catalina Cortes-Ambrosio, 53, of Madera, Calif., was charged on two felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly lying about physical limitations from an injury at work in an attempt to receive undeserved...
Mar 15 2021 // Federal workplace safety regulators said on Friday they will revisit several COVID-19 related safety investigations performed during the Trump administration as part of a wider effort to better protect workers from the...
Mar 12 2021 // Daniel Clampitt, 41, of Denair, Calif., was arraigned on four felony counts including insurance fraud, grand theft and perjury for allegedly claiming to be too injured to work and simultaneously collecting $94,788 in...
Mar 12 2021 // A new partnership between specialty wholesaler CRC Group, 5Star Specialty Programs and life insurer subsidiary Pan-American Benefit Solutions (PABS), will focus on offering workers’ compensation coverage for the...
Mar 11 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will continue to decrease in Louisiana with a new rate reduction beginning in May, the insurance department reported.Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved a...
Mar 10 2021 // A new study shows that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) now account for more than one-third of all drugs dispensed to injured workers in California, triple the proportion for opioids.A study from the California...
Mar 9 2021 // U.S. commercial insurance prices again grew significantly in the fourth quarter of 2020.Again, except for workers’ compensation. According to Willis Towers Watson’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey...
Mar 8 2021 // Kia Lor, 54, of Merced, Calif., was arraigned on four counts of insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance found that she allegedly lied about the extent of prior injuries in an...
Mar 5 2021 // Cal/OSHA has cited multiple employers for not protecting workers from COVID-19 following inspections in various industries throughout the state.Violations were identified in industries including construction, garment,...
Mar 3 2021 // The family of a Lebanon, Mo., police officer who died of COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation, city officials said.Officer Kendle Blackburn died Dec. 28 after a long battle with the virus. A release from...
Mar 2 2021 // Three workers were injured as a massive North Texas foam recycling plant fire burned all day on Feb. 25 and into the night. The fire at the Advanced Foam Recycling plant in the Fort Worth suburb of Richland Hills was...
Mar 1 2021 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has found that a worker can’t charge his workers’ comp insurer for the cost of medical marijuana treatment due to a work-related injury.This comes after Mark T. Delano initially...