All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 20 2018 // Although there has been an overall decline in workers’ compensation claims, the frequency of claims for motor vehicle accidents has increased in recent years, reports the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Aug 17 2018 // A study from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute shows the likelihood that indemnity was paid on a workers’ comp claim increased with the number of concurrent prescriptions the injured worker was...
Aug 16 2018 // Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says the state’s injured worker fund is setting aside a portion of its safety grant funding to help local police agencies pay for bulletproof vests. The Republican gubernatorial...
Aug 16 2018 // New Hampshire employers could pay less for their workers’ compensation insurance next year because of a filing that lowers the loss costs insurers use to develop prices.The National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Aug 15 2018 // Many Texas cities are denying workers’ compensation to firefighters with cancer, according to union leaders and state lawmakers.Over the past six years, more than 90 percent of the 117 workers compensation claims...
Aug 14 2018 // Although there has been an overall decline in workers’ compensation claims, the frequency of claims for motor vehicle accidents has increased in recent years.According to the National Council on Compensation...
Aug 13 2018 // An analysis of five years of benchmarking data from more than 1,700 claims identifies three practices that workers’ compensation claims organizations rated as low in quality should adopt to keep from falling further...
Aug 10 2018 // Pie Insurance, an online seller of workers’ compensation policies to small-and-medium-sized businesses, reported it has completed an $11 million Series A funding round.The company, a full stack managing general agent...
Aug 10 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited an El Paso, Texas, construction company for failing to protect its employees from trench collapse hazards.El Paso Underground Construction, a pipe-laying company, faces $190,642...
Aug 9 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 rather...
Aug 9 2018 // The Florida United Businesses Association (FUBA) is now offering workers’ compensation coverage to small businesses across the state through Lancer Indemnity Co. of New York.The partnership marks FUBA’s switch...
Aug 8 2018 // CNA’s Emily Hathcoat launched a sales and marketing therapy session that promised tabloid-worthy confessions. Here is how she set the stage:“If you were to give your marketing and sales teams a relationship...
Aug 8 2018 // The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office is eliminating its Division of Employment Programs and Workers’ Compensation Defense, resulting in the loss of 10 jobs. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Aug 7 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited an Illinois manufacturing company for 18 health and safety violations and proposed penalties totaling $587,564.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Aug 7 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of July.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Aug 6 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Polystar Inc. – doing business as Polystar Containment – for exposing employees to excessive noise after 12...
Aug 6 2018 // GEICO’s Board of Directors has promoted Rick Hoagland to senior vice president.Hoagland first joined GEICO in 1994 as a telephone claims representative in Fredericksburg, Md. He advanced through several positions and...
Aug 6 2018 // The Business Council of New York State Inc. has touted the newly approved 11.7 percent reduction in loss cost rates, which are the basis for setting workers’ compensation premiums for 2019, as being significant...
Aug 6 2018 // Lansing, Michigan-based AF Group is branching out from its traditional base in workers’ compensation into the specialty commercial auto insurance niche, driven by a new operating company, Fundamental...
Aug 1 2018 // Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program administrator, has added an exclusive new workers’ compensation insurance program with Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. Accredited recently...