All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2019 // Workers’ compensation carriers can now accurately score a policy even where there is no loss history on the account, according Valen Analytics, a data analytics and predictive modeling firm for the property/casualty...
Jul 17 2019 // Pie Insurance has begun providing workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses in New Hampshire.It simultaneously announced that it has begun providing workers’ comp insurance in Mississippi, Utah and...
Jul 17 2019 // Pie Insurance said it has begun providing workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses in Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah and West Virginia. With these additions, Pie now offers coverage in 29 states and the...
Jul 16 2019 // The workers’ compensation market is on track for a fifth consecutive year of underwriting profits in 2019 despite recent weakening in market fundamentals.According to a Fitch Ratings report, the industry’s...
Jul 15 2019 // Wisconsin insurance officials will soon consider a proposal to lower insurance rates for workers’ compensation in the state.The Wisconsin Compensation Rating Bureau has proposed decreasing workers’ compensation...
Jul 15 2019 // Texas lawmakers in the recent legislative session passed a bill addressing surprise medical bills injured employees have received after being treated at federal military facilities.Senate Bill 935 requires workers’...
Jul 15 2019 // An insurer that extended its workers’ compensation coverage for 90 days after discovering the employer had violated the terms of its policy could not then deny coverage for a claim on the grounds that those terms had...
Jul 10 2019 // Sedgwick Group announced this week that it has signed an agreement to purchase York Risk Services, continuing a long-term consolidation trend among third-party administrators.The purchase of York — which must be approved...
Jul 9 2019 // A metal treating facility in Glendale Heights, Illinois, has been cited by federal officials for workplace safety violations and faces imposed penalties of $181,662.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
Jul 8 2019 // Wisconsin insurance officials will soon consider a proposal to lower insurance rates for workers’ compensation in the state.The Wisconsin Compensation Rating Bureau has proposed decreasing workers’ compensation...
Jul 3 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Company is now offering workers’ compensation insurance to small, mid-size, and large businesses in Missouri. With the addition of Missouri,...
Jul 2 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Navy Contractors Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards at a work site in Lakewood, N.J. The company faces $84,183 in...
Jul 2 2019 // Trident Marine Managers (TMM), a specialty marine and offshore energy company and a part of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), is partnering with Signal Mutual on a workers’ compensation program for waterfront employers...
Jul 1 2019 // It appears that the Berkshire Hathaway workers’ compensation unit Applied Underwriters is being sold in a large acquisition, which likely involves Cayman Islands-based United Insurance Co.A spokesman for the Applied...
Jul 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Croda Inc. after a chemical release at the New Castle, Del., manufacturing plant exposed workers to ethylene oxide. The...
Jul 1 2019 // A Florida zoo has been fined more than $14,500 after a worker was injured by a 4,000-pound (1,800-kilogram) white rhinoceros earlier this year.The Florida Times-Union reported June 25 that the U.S. Department of...
Jun 28 2019 // Texas lawmakers in the recent legislative session passed a bill addressing surprise medical bills injured employees have received after being treated at federal military facilities.Senate Bill 935 requires workers’...
Jun 27 2019 // The Florida Legislature looked at and passed many pieces of legislation in the 2019 session that will impact the insurance industry. The following are summaries of what passed — and what didn’t. HB 7065 – AOB...
Jun 27 2019 // An insurer that extended its workers’ compensation coverage for 90 days after discovering the employer had violated the terms of its policy could not then deny coverage for a claim on the grounds that those terms had...
Jun 26 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Wednesday submitted a Jan. 1, 2020, regulatory filing to the California Insurance Commissioner. The filing contains the following proposals:...