All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 27 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Bureau of California on Tuesday issued its latest quarterly report on insurer loss and premium experience valued as of March 31.The report shows written premium for 2018 is 4% below that for...
Aug 27 2019 // A suburban Philadelphia factory owner found guilty of retaliating against employees who cooperated with federal safety inspectors has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in back wages and punitive damages.The...
Aug 26 2019 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has affirmed a decision by the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (CAB) denying an estate’s request that its insurer pay workers’ compensation benefits to the estate as a...
Aug 23 2019 // A Florida contractor was arrested this month for an alleged workers’ compensation fraud scheme totaling nearly $737,000, according to a statement from Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis.Norma Lopez Cedillo,...
Aug 22 2019 // The board of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced plans to distribute a $105 million dividend to qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Aug. 19.This dividend...
Aug 21 2019 // Martin G. Madden, a former senior advisor to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan from 2015 to 2017, was appointed to the board of directors of Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, effective June 1, 2019. Madden will...
Aug 20 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Tuesday submitted its Jan. 1, 2020, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory pure premium rates that...
Aug 20 2019 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has appointed Kim Wilson to the role of senior production underwriter to support continued growth in the Georgia market.Wilson has more than 15 years of experience in...
Aug 20 2019 // West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. in West Bend, Wisconsin, has promoted five company executives.Heather Dunn is now senior vice president, as well as chief financial officer, a position she’s held since 2017. Dunn...
Aug 19 2019 // for Drop in 2020 Pure Premium FilingThe Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee voted earlier this month to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Jan. 1, 2020, advisory pure...
Aug 15 2019 // Federal safety regulators have cited two contractors following the death of a worker at Delaware’s port of Wilmington earlier this year.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says Enerfab Process Solutions...
Aug 14 2019 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman and Labor & Industry Secretary Jerry Oleksiak announced agreements with two insurers and the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB) to protect Pennsylvania...
Aug 13 2019 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration has published the new weekly minimum and maximum compensation rates for injured workers that are effective Sept. 1.The new...
Aug 12 2019 // Empire Underwriters, a leading national insurance wholesaler, excess and surplus lines facility and program manager has released a new workers comp program for truckers, tow truck operators, and delivery companies backed...
Aug 12 2019 // Authorities say two workers were injured in a gas explosion at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ home stadium.The Tampa Bay Times reports that the workers at Raymond James Stadium were taken to a local hospital Thursday...
Aug 9 2019 // Federal workplace safety regulators have proposed more than $413,000 in penalties after citing a Missouri-based barrel maker for multiple workplace safety hazards.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
Aug 8 2019 // Many human hours are needed to sort, analyze and process workers compensation claims—the vast majority of which are low in value.The U.S. workers comp insurance market is forecast to earn revenues of $55 billion in 2019....
Aug 7 2019 // A pair of companies has filed to overturn decisions by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in cases involving workers’ comp provider Applied Underwriters, alleging the decisions by Lara were swayed by...
Aug 7 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Jan. 1, 2020 advisory pure premium rate filing to the California...
Aug 6 2019 // A Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS) employee was has been arrested and charged with fraudulently collecting more than $4,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.Elizabeth Torres, age 58, of...