All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2019 // Benjamin Roberts has been appointed as a senior production underwriter by workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group to support continued growth in the Vermont market. Roberts, a native of Vermont, previously...
Sep 26 2019 // ClearPath Mutual Insurance Co. has appointed Kim Sellers as the company’s first production underwriter. Sellers will be based out of Burns, Tenn., and will handle agents in Kentucky and Tennessee.As production...
Sep 26 2019 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reported it secured eight fraud-related convictions in August, bringing 2019’s total to 63.BWC assisted in the investigation that led to the Aug. 30 sentencing of...
Sep 25 2019 // A Zanesville, Ohio, man and former county deputy sheriff must reimburse the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) nearly $235,000 in restitution after being convicted on Sept. 23 on workers’ compensation...
Sep 24 2019 // A 5.1% percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs in Oklahoma for 2020 has been approved by Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready, the state insurance department announced.Loss costs are the...
Sep 23 2019 // Steve Nichols, manager of Workers’ Compensation Services at the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), is moving on to pursue other opportunities, the insurance trade organization reports.Nichols has been with ICT for 19...
Sep 23 2019 // Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers tells employers to watch their mailboxes as it prepares to send out dividend checks totaling around $1.5 billion.The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation says strong...
Sep 20 2019 // A Worcester, Mass., man who operated a temporary employment agency was indicted in connection with a scheme to evade more than $110,000 in workers’ compensation premiums, according to a press release issued by...
Sep 18 2019 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington would drop for the third year in a row under a proposal by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries.The L&I on Wednesday proposed a 0.8%...
Sep 18 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Ramon S. Flores of Kingwood on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.Flores reported a job-related injury while working as a...
Sep 17 2019 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has announced that the 2020 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2020.The minimum TTD rate will increase from $187.71 to...
Sep 17 2019 // A contractor has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration which says workers were exposed to fall and scaffolding hazards at a commercial building project in...
Sep 17 2019 // CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has agreed to acquire Alaska National Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary Alaska National Insurance Co., an Alaska-domiciled workers’ compensation and commercial insurance carrier.The...
Sep 17 2019 // A Rochester, N.Y., woman has been arraigned on charges that she defrauded the workers’ compensation system of more than $5,000 by endorsing and cashing wage reimbursement checks intended for her deceased...
Sep 16 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Bureau of California on Monday its latest quarterly report on insurer experience as of June 30.The WCIRB report shows written premium for 2018 is 4% below that for 2017 and 6% below that for...
Sep 16 2019 // PMA Companies Insurance Group has named Sabrina Mitchell as Claims assistant vice president, Southeast Region.Mitchell will be responsible for leading PMA’s Southeast Region insurance claims operations and will...
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators issued a bulletin in late August highlighting and summarizing selected bills passed and signed into law this year that impact the business of workers’ compensation insurance in the...
Sep 16 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...
Sep 16 2019 // The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology.“Historically we’ve been really slow to adapt to technology and innovation,” said Shaun Jackson,...
Sep 13 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...