All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2019 // Texas’ largest independent insurance agent association and the state’s leading workers’ compensation insurance carrier have formed a strategic partnership.The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT)...
Jan 31 2019 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Dustin Greco to business segment leader to support the company’s continued growth of the small business market in the Northeast. Greco’s...
Jan 31 2019 // Pennsylvania’s State Workers Insurance Fund (SWIF), the largest writer of workers’ comp insurance in Pennsylvania, has filed a plan to retroactively correct charges to employers for their workers’...
Jan 30 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier, Normandy Insurance Company, has expanded into Oklahoma and is now offering workers’ comp coverage to small, mid-size and large businesses in the...
Jan 29 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 25 2019 // Online seller Pie Insurance has started offering its workers compensation insurance in five more states, bringing the total to 14.The Washington, D.C.-based managing general agent disclosed it has begun marketing its...
Jan 23 2019 // A Houston company has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation premium fraud in a case that spanned four years, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation announced.According to the...
Jan 23 2019 // Value-based care, political party changes in several states, and a more holistic view of patient injuries will impact the workers’ compensation industry this year, according to two experts hosting a workers’...
Jan 21 2019 // Injured workers in mining and construction, those in rural counties or those who suffer fractures, carpal tunnel and neurologic spine pain are among those more likely to receive prescriptions for opioids than workers in...
Jan 21 2019 // Renewal premium rates for nearly all major commercial insurance lines increased in the fourth quarter of last year with the exception of workers’ compensation where the average rate dropped and remained negative.The...
Jan 21 2019 // In its 2018 Biennial Report to the Legislature dated Dec. 14, 2018, the Texas Department of Insurance made several recommendations to state lawmakers regarding issues the agency believes are worth looking at in the...
Jan 18 2019 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reminding employers they face a Feb. 1 deadline.That is the deadline for employers to post a copy of OSHA’s form 300A, which summarizes job-related injuries and...
Jan 18 2019 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has launched a new tool that makes it easier for injured workers, attorneys and other participants to attend workers’ compensation hearings remotely.The...
Jan 18 2019 // Method Insurance Services has launched a specialty workers’ compensation program with Service American Indemnity Co. that focuses on an under-served market segment for challenging, high-hazard risks.The program will...
Jan 17 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Co. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance to small, mid-size, and large businesses in Texas.This marks the fourth major expansion by the...
Jan 17 2019 // The North Carolina Industrial Commission’s Compliance and Fraud Investigative Division collected more than $3.2 million in penalties and issued 289 criminal charges at the end of the first two quarters of Fiscal Year...
Jan 14 2019 // California worker’s compensation insurers and their customers are getting a bit of a break this year.The California Insurance Guarantee Association won’t be collecting its annual assessment on 2019...
Jan 14 2019 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q) has completed a transaction to assume the Workers’ Compensation liabilities of a Vermont based self-insurer by R&Q’s wholly owned carrier, Accredited...
Jan 11 2019 // SUNZ Insurance Solutions, LLC has formed a partnership with Cimarron Insurance Co. to utilize Cimarron’s Cover One and Cover Two workers’ compensation products. The new partnership provides workers’...
Jan 11 2019 // Injured workers in mining and construction, those in rural counties or those who suffer fractures, carpal tunnel and neurologic spine pain are among those more likely to receive prescriptions for opioids than workers in...