All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 3 2018 // If residential property owners don’t confirm proper insurance coverage and carefully consider labor laws when hiring contractors, they could be in for some costly litigation, according to two speakers at a July...
Sep 3 2018 // Section 5(a) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides the damages an employer must pay for work-related injuries. It specifies a worker injured in the line of duty cannot sue her employer or its other...
Aug 30 2018 // Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed, with recommended changes, a workers’ compensation measure that would have allowed for interest to be paid on delayed payment in disputes between insurers and medical service...
Aug 30 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced a new workers’ compensation insurance program for California’s cannabis industry.The program was created by Atlas General Insurance Services to serve...
Aug 30 2018 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved three new insurance companies to conduct insurance business in that state.Authority was granted to West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. (WBM) of West Bend, Wisconsin, to...
Aug 30 2018 // San Diego, CA, August 30, 2018– Leading national program administrator, Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, announced today its new workers’ compensation program for the cannabis industry in California.This...
Aug 29 2018 // CorLife LLC, a Green Bay, Wisconsin-based provider of ancillary benefits and home modification services for workers’ compensation carriers nationwide, has added a new company, CorCare LLC, which provides skilled,...
Aug 29 2018 // Florida businesses could see another significant rate decrease in workers’ compensation rates next year if Florida regulators approve the latest filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI).But...
Aug 27 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced Christopher Colligan of Baytown on workers’ compensation fraud charges.The company said Colligan reported a job-related injury...
Aug 23 2018 // The California Supreme Court issued an opinion today that utilization review physicians cannot be sued for malpractice, upholding established law that the workers’ comp system provides injured employees an exclusive...
Aug 23 2018 // The trend of increasing commercial insurance premiums that began in the fourth quarter of 2017 continued last quarter. Average premiums across all sized accounts increased by 1.5 percent in Q2, according to The Council of...
Aug 22 2018 // Lisa Corless has been promoted to president and CEO of AF Group, a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Corless assumes CEO duties from Elizabeth Haar, who is now BCBSM executive vice president and president...
Aug 21 2018 // The owner of a residential construction business in Dayton who under reported his payroll by millions of dollars to lower his workers’ comp premiums has been sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud, the Ohio...
Aug 21 2018 // Federal safety officials have proposed $213,411 in penalties against an Ohio manufacturer for amputation hazards at the company’s workplace.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Aug 21 2018 // A Travis County, Texas district court has sentenced Gary Hunt of Austin on workers’ compensation fraud charges.Hunt reported a job-related injury while working as a sales coach for Radiant Plumbing Service Inc., and...
Aug 20 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Monday submitted an advisory pure premium rate filing lower than last year’s approved rate to the California Insurance Commissioner.The...
Aug 20 2018 // Through a program to protect firefighters from carcinogens and other harmful health hazards encountered by firefighters during their daily work activities, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) will...
Aug 20 2018 // Darrick Lee, a licensed attorney in both Louisiana and Texas, has been appointed fraud manager in the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) at the Louisiana Workforce Commission.Lee has 13 years of...
Aug 20 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of July.Details of the incidents, as reported by NCDOI, are as follows: Monroe Man Charged with FraudGary Miller of...
Aug 20 2018 // After three banner years, the U.S. workers’ compensation market will face increasing pricing pressure and an erosion in results heading into next year. That means 2019 will be closer to a break-even combined ratio...