All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2018 // An Alabama steel company is being fined more than $320,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over hazardous working conditions. Al.com reports OSHA announced the fine Nov. 13 for Montgomery-based Sabel...
Nov 21 2018 // A Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Dielectrics, a Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer, illegally fired Ileana Bermudez after she collected workers’ compensation benefits and filed a lawsuit...
Nov 20 2018 // A New Braunfels, Texas, woman must perform community service and pay more than $7,000 in restitution after being sentenced on workers’ compensation fraud charges.Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Carolina...
Nov 19 2018 // Electric Evidence“They did it because they’re faced with insurmountable evidence that it’s their responsibility.” — Robert Curtis, an attorney representing 450 victims of a fire that tore...
Nov 19 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones earlier this month issued a revised advisory workers’ compensation pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $1.63 per $100 of payroll effective Jan. 1, 2019.Jones has...
Nov 19 2018 // Pinnacol Assurance’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to decrease workers’ compensation rates in 2019 by an average of 10 percent.The decrease will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, and will be the fourth...
Nov 19 2018 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved a nearly 17 percent decrease in rates for workers’ compensation insurance, marking the fifth consecutive year that rates have dropped in Connecticut.“This...
Nov 19 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the second year in a row in Delaware, effective Dec. 1, 2018. “I am delighted to approve yet another decrease in workers’ compensation rates in...
Nov 16 2018 // The Travelers Companies has partnered with contractor company Gilbane, and Triax Technologies, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) construction technology, to explore the potential safety benefits of wearable...
Nov 15 2018 // A federal safety agency has proposed fining a company in connection with the death of an employee who was working in a Hall County, Nebraska, cornfield. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing...
Nov 15 2018 // There is new evidence that ambulatory surgery centers are less expensive for certain surgeries than hospitals.Payments for similar knee and shoulder surgeries performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) were lower...
Nov 15 2018 // Northeast Framing Inc., a contractor based in Lunenberg, Mass., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for exposing workers to falls and other hazards...
Nov 14 2018 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has received two mid-year workers’ compensation loss cost filings with a proposed effective date of January 1, 2019, from the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB). The...
Nov 13 2018 // Lawmakers have begun filing bills in the Texas Legislature for the legislative session that begins in January 2019. Among the bills filed so far that relate to property/casualty insurance include:HB 259: Relating to named...
Nov 13 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business.Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Nov 13 2018 // A revised workers compensation rate filing for a 13.8 percent decrease by the National Council on Compensation Insurance has been approved by Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier.The amended filing to NCCI’s...
Nov 9 2018 // Pinnacol Assurance’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to decrease workers’ compensation rates in 2019 by an average of 10 percent.The decrease will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, and will be the fourth...
Nov 9 2018 // Commercial auto insurance hasn’t produced an industrywide combined ratio below 105 in the United States since 2010, according to a Guy Carpenter analysis, which says the line’s poor performance is a key factor...
Nov 8 2018 // Workers’ compensation rates in Tennessee will decrease by nearly 20 percent next year, marking the sixth consecutive year of decreases, according to a statement from the Tennessee Department of Commerce and...
Nov 7 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday issued a revised advisory workers’ compensation pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $1.63 per $100 of payroll effective Jan. 1, 2019.Jones has...