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Dec 23 2024 // DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot...
Nov 13 2025 // The Delaware Supreme Court has revived a workers’ compensation insurer’s claim for subrogation in a case where an employee injured while driving for her employer received payment from her employer’s...
Aug 15 2025 // A Philadelphia police officer who was severely beaten by a robbery suspect in 2017 has won his right to add a psychological injury to his already settled workers’ compensation claim for physical injuries suffered in...
Jul 31 2025 // A California city has filed a civil lawsuit against a former police officer who went skiing and attended a music festival while collecting workers’ compensation.Westminster filed the suit against a former police...
Nov 18 2025 // Florida’s insurance commissioner has approved a 6.9% average decrease in workers’ compensation rates for the voluntary market for 2026, marking the ninth straight year of rate cuts in the state.The average rate...
Aug 14 2025 // A large-scale workers’ compensation fraud and tax evasion scheme that came to light when an employee was killed while removing a sign from a brewery has resulted in the sentencing of a construction firm...
Oct 28 2025 // State Supreme Court reviews of workers’ compensation cases are rare, but in Kentucky last week, the state high court handed down no fewer than three opinions – all of which emphasize long-established case law. The...
Aug 11 2025 // Word on the street is that California employers should start expecting higher workers’ compensation rates.California employers have enjoyed a soft workers’ comp market for the last decade, but all indications...
Jun 5 2025 // Workers’ compensation benefits are not available to a worker injured when he was chased and hit by a golf cart driven by a co-worker who claimed he was just horsing around.The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that...
Dec 11 2024 // A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver who was intoxicated when he crashed his semi-trailer delivery truck has been denied workers’ compensation benefits.Delaware Superior Court Judge Kathleen Vavala last week reversed...
Feb 10 2025 // President Trump was sworn in for a second term the morning of January 20, and he spent the rest of that day setting a record for the most ever Day 1 executive actions.Among those Day 1 executive actions (and a couple...
Sep 17 2025 // A Georgia man has been arrested for at least the second time in four years, charged with posing as an insurance agent and selling fake workers’ compensation policies.Fernando Jose Cuellar Membreno, 54, was arrested...
Feb 7 2025 // A manufacturer and its workers compensation insurer thought an injured 60-year old service technician employee did not work hard enough to find a suitable replacement job as required to qualify for wage loss benefits....
Nov 17 2025 // Medical costs per claim have begun to rise following a period of relative stability post-pandemic, a new report shows.A new Workers Compensation Research Institute report shows medical payments per claim recently started...
Jan 16 2025 // A recent decision and concurring opinion by a Florida appeals court may have upset years of practice and could raise costs for workers’ compensation insurers. Some claims that carriers were once ready to close out of...
Nov 4 2025 // Trinity Couriers Inc., a courier service based in San Antonio, pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation insurance coverage, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. The company agreed to pay...
Nov 4 2025 // Workers’ compensation insurance premium rates in California have been in a steady decline for many years, after a series of reforms to the system reduced claim payouts, and subsequent changes to the experience...
Aug 6 2025 // A newly released decade-long study by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) indicates that claims initiated by nurse practitioners and physician assistants didn’t lead to negative outcomes and...
Mar 4 2025 // Adding a dependent to an open workers’ compensation death benefits claim does not constitute a separate claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week. Furthermore, the court concluded, there is no statutory...
Aug 13 2025 // New York state officials recently reported on two workers’ compensation fraud investigations involving Long Island residents who received thousands in benefits while engaging in off-the-books work — including one...