All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2019 // I’ve held off commenting very much on THREE, the new three-page commercial policy by Berkshire Hathaway. It’s time for a few of my thoughts.It has only been filed in a limited number of states. So far, THREE...
May 8 2019 // Ohio-based national insurer Progressive has joined the ranks of carriers offering small businesses a platform to buy insurance quickly and simply.The insurer’s new online BusinessQuote Explorer (BQX) delivers...
May 8 2019 // Iowa’s high court has ruled in favor of a workers’ compensation insurer in a case in which a group of employees and former employees of a manufacturing plant alleged that the insurer failed to protect workers...
May 7 2019 // A California psychologist and doctor have been charged for allegedly submitting fraudulent insurance claims for workers’ compensation medical legal evaluations in an attempt to steal tens of thousands of dollars from...
May 7 2019 // A meat packing plant in San Angelo, Texas, has been cited for exposing workers to highly hazardous chemicals and faces more than $615,000 in penalties.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
May 6 2019 // A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to death by a client, even though the company did not violate any specific safety standard, reinvigorated...
May 6 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
May 1 2019 // Atlas General Insurance Services has collaborated with Bascule Underwriting, specialists in equine insurance, to provide an exclusive workers compensation product for horse farm owners.The program will be administered by...
Apr 30 2019 // Hiscox, the Bermuda-headquartered specialist insurer, announced the appointment of Melissa Hill as head of Claims in the United States.Hill, who has more than a decade of experience in claims operations, will oversee the...
Apr 29 2019 // The California workers’ compensation marketplace today remains generally healthy for insurers, employers and injured workers, the chief of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California said in...
Apr 24 2019 // It’s a safe bet that there are a number of those among us who envision workers in the marijuana industry as mostly a bunch of mellow bud-blazers haphazardly performing the daily tasks of trimming, potting,...
Apr 24 2019 // The use of opioids has significantly and continuously declined in the California workers’ compensation system since 2012, a trend that may be leading to a shift in the patterns of medical treatments for...
Apr 23 2019 // California State Fund announced the rollout of a solution the worker’s comp carrier says will enable doctors to provide expedited care for injured workers.State Fund’s utilization review technology, called UR...
Apr 22 2019 // After dipping for the first time ever in 2017, the number of workers’ comp medical dispute decision letters rose to an all-time high in 2018, according to a California Workers’ Compensation Institute study on...
Apr 22 2019 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has signed a bill to make it easier for firefighters to receive workers’ compensation for cancer and other occupational diseases.The bill signing ends a 20-year fight for...
Apr 18 2019 // Two New York state contractors were arrested on charges they filed fraudulent applications for a roofing project in Amsterdam, N.Y., as part of a workers’ compensation fraud scheme.Jose A. Sanchez, owner of Sanchez...
Apr 16 2019 // Cal/OSHA has cited two employers more than $300,000 after a temporary worker lost two fingers cleaning machinery at a food manufacturing facility in Los Angeles, Calif.On Oct. 2, 2018, the employee for Priority Workforce...
Apr 16 2019 // The owner of a Mansfield, Ohio, freight hauling and trucking company convicted on four felony charges related to workers’ compensation fraud, has been ordered to pay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation...
Apr 16 2019 // A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to death by a client, even though the company did not violate any specific safety standard, reinvigorated...
Apr 15 2019 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund reported an increase of net income and written premium in its just-released annual report for 2018.Financial highlights of the 2018 annual report include: Net income of...