All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2019 // While most insurance claims are legitimate, studies indicate that 10% or more of all property/casualty insurance claims are fraudulent.In the workers’ compensation industry, combatting fraud can seem like a game of...
Oct 21 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in mid-October issued a prospective estimate of the cost impact of Senate Bill 863, the sweeping workers’ comp reform bill signed into law in...
Oct 18 2019 // Louisiana’s high court recently nixed the idea that an unconfirmed or unverified drug test can be used to prove intoxication or fraud in order to deny the workers’ compensation claim of an injured worker.In...
Oct 16 2019 // Applied Underwriters Inc. and its subsidiary North American Casualty Co. has reportedly been acquired by Applied Underwriters founder Steve Menzies, who was joined in the acquisition by the Quasha Group led by Quadrant...
Oct 15 2019 // The State Risk Manager Association recently named the Arkansas Insurance Department’s Public Employee Claims Division (PECD) as the recipient of the 2019 AFIRM Award for its state employee workers’ compensation...
Oct 15 2019 // A Texas company has been cited for workplace safety hazards and fined more than $301,000 after an employee fatality at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in April 2019.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Oct 15 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Monday presented the actuarial basis for an average proposed Jan. 1, 2020 advisory pure premium rate of $1.58, which is 5.4 percent less than the...
Oct 15 2019 // Delaware is set to see a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance rates for the third year in a row, effective December 1, 2019.“I am delighted to approve a decrease in workers’ compensation rates in...
Oct 11 2019 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced an 8.4% average reduction in pure premium rates for employers in 2020.The department each year adopts by rule the workers’ comp premium assessment...
Oct 11 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California this week issued a prospective estimate of the cost impact of Senate Bill 863, the sweeping workers’ comp reform bill signed into law in 2012.SB...
Oct 10 2019 // Federal officials have cited an Ohio foundry with three repeated and 18 serious health violations for exposing employees to crystalline silica above the permissible exposure levels.As a result, Liberty Casting Company in...
Oct 10 2019 // The owner of a Malden, Mass.-based cleaning company pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that involved worker misclassification, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey...
Oct 9 2019 // A Missouri-based food flavoring manufacturer is facing $223,525 in penalties after being cited by federal officials for workplace safety violations following the death of a worker at the company’s facility.The U.S....
Oct 9 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced Joe D. Lozano, Sr. of Midland, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.Lozano reported a job-related injury while...
Oct 8 2019 // Salus Workers’ Compensation LLC (Salus), a managing general agent (MGA) and third-party administrator (TPA), has completed its acquisition of Method LLC d/b/a Method Insurance Services (Method), a full-service...
Oct 8 2019 // Louisiana’s largest workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Louisiana Workers Compensation Corporation (LWCC), is issuing $136 million in dividend checks to policyholders during October.LWCC is a single state,...
Oct 7 2019 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has approved a proposal for a 6.2 percent overall rate decrease to Idaho workers’ compensation insurance effective Jan. 1, 2020. The proposed rate change was recommended by the...
Oct 7 2019 // Chicago-based Origami Risk, a risk and insurance Software as a Service (SaaS) technology firm, has formed two new operating divisions – Risk Solutions and Core Solutions – and appointed Earne Bentley and Christopher...
Oct 7 2019 // In the aggregate, workers’ compensation insurers reported a modest increase in direct written premiums in the U.S. for the first six months of 2019 versus the same period 2018, up 2.2%. However, the 25 carriers with...
Sep 30 2019 // The number of California workers’ compensation inpatient hospital stays fell 1.9 percent between 2017 and 2018, for a net decline of nearly 31 percent since 2010, a new study shows.A study from the California...