All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 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 11 2019 // In its 2018 Biennial Report, the Texas Department of Insurance has recommended that lawmakers delete from state statute references to classification relativities as an alternative basis for workers’ compensation...
Jan 7 2019 // San Diego, CA, January 7, 2019 – DS Services of America, in partnership with their broker Beecher Carlson, recently selected American Claims Management (ACM) to handle claims management in a portion of the states in...
Jan 7 2019 // Most eyeballs were on California during the midterm elections in November, with polar opposite candidates facing off in the race for governor as well as the office of insurance commissioner.As in most years, Democrats...
Jan 7 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 7 2019 // Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, CaliforniaJacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable book of business in...
Jan 4 2019 // The Missouri Department of Insurance in December recommended a 3.5 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2019. This marks the fifth year in a row that average workers’ compensation...
Jan 3 2019 // A Florida roofing company owner was arrested last month after allegedly attempting to defraud multiple homeowners out of more than $49,000 and working without workers’ compensation insurance, according to a statement...
Jan 2 2019 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Brenda Collins as a member of the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission. Collins, of Alvaton, is a benefits distributor for Constellium-UACJ. She will represent...
Dec 28 2018 // Restaurant workers miss about a month from work from a variety of injuries, on average, but for coffee shop workers, wrist injuries are the biggest danger. In fact, Barista Wrist, can keep café workers sidelined for more...
Dec 28 2018 // Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well.And so, when...
Dec 21 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it cited Thiele Dairy in Nebraska for failing to develop and implement safety and health programs related to grain bin...
Dec 20 2018 // Louisiana is second only to Washington, D.C., with the lowest non-fatal work-related injury rate in the country, the Louisiana Workforce Commission announced.A recent Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) report showed that...
Dec 19 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday imposed a $4.3 million penalty on American Labor Alliance and CompOne USA for selling workers’ compensation and liability policies to employers of farmworkers...
Dec 18 2018 // Republican legislators have rejected another candidate from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper for the North Carolina Industrial Commission.The House voted 34-59 on Thursday against confirming Judge Robby Hassell of Greensboro....
Dec 17 2018 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved two mid-year workers’ compensation loss cost filings, effective January 1, 2019.The fillings are from the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB), an...
Dec 17 2018 // Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why.She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs. She knew it was as rare as it was deadly, a...
Dec 17 2018 // How to process cancer-related workers’ compensation claims filed by firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) is developing into an emerging issue, Texas workers’ compensation system regulators...
Dec 17 2018 // A new report shows the average return on net worth for California workers’ compensation insurers rose to 9.9 percent in 2017, the fourth consecutive increase.The report comes from the National Association of...
Dec 17 2018 // A Los Angeles, Calif., chiropractor has pleaded guilty to taking part in a $150 million workers’ compensation fraud scheme.Paul Turley of Granada Hills pleaded in early December to conspiracy to commit insurance...