All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2024 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation to expand workers’ compensation benefits to people who are facing job-related mental health crises.The new law, which goes into effect January 1, 2025, allows any...
Dec 6 2024 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) announced that employers should see a reduction in workers’ compensation rates in 2025, marking the fourth straight year of decreased rates.The projected rate...
Dec 5 2024 // Florida-based Summit, a regional provider of workers’ compensation insurance services, announced the expansion of its coverage into Illinois. Summit-managed carriers, Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Co., Bridgefield...
Dec 5 2024 // Claim frequency in California workers’ compensation remains significantly higher in the Los Angeles Basin than in the northern part of the state, a new study shows.The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...
Dec 4 2024 // State-by-state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory culture can lend one the impression that keeping up with industry changes is a little bit like herding cats. So, what...
Dec 2 2024 // The average cost of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington will go up about 3.8% in 2025, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries announced.Employers and workers together will pay on average...
Dec 2 2024 // Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing.The workers’ comp market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s Compensation...
Nov 27 2024 // A worker activist has sued the Department of Labor (DOL) to force the release of records surrounding the deaths of three workers at New Jersey Amazon workplaces in 2022.The lawsuit says DOL’s Occupational Safety and...
Nov 26 2024 // Alex Swedlow said he plans to retire from his post as president of the Oakland-based California Workers’ Compensation Institute.He is stepping down from the helm of CWCI effective August 2025. Swedlow’s...
Nov 22 2024 // A New Jersey commercial baker in Paterson faces $385,221 in federal penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer failed to correct workplace safety hazards identified in 2023.The...
Nov 21 2024 // The trend of decreasing rates in Connecticut workers’ compensation insurance will continue as the state’s insurance regulator has approved an industry proposed 6% rate decrease beginning January 1, 2025.The...
Nov 19 2024 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) to Standard and Preferred Insurance Co. of Kew Gardens, New York. The outlook assigned...
Nov 19 2024 // Florida employers will soon see the smallest decrease in workers’ compensation rates in years – just a 1% reduction from current overall rates in the voluntary market.The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation...
Nov 18 2024 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) must do more to address ergonomic hazards at warehouses and delivery companies, where the number of injured workers in the growing sector are on the rise, a...
Nov 18 2024 // A federal workplace safety investigation has found the operator of three Massachusetts waterproofing contracting companies could have prevented an employee from suffering fatal injuries in February 2024 when part of a...
Nov 18 2024 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the eighth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary market is expected to decrease...
Nov 15 2024 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said its enforcement has led to fewer workers dying.OSHA, a part of the Department of Labor, said it investigated 826 worker deaths in fiscal year 2024. This is an 11%...
Nov 15 2024 // A Washington man is being charged in a felony in a $28,000 workers’ compensation scam after a trip the gym seemingly exposed him.Omid Mohammadi Dashti, 41, of Renton, was charged with one count of first-degree theft....
Nov 14 2024 // Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing.The workers’ compensation market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s...
Nov 4 2024 // Workers’ compensation medical payments per claim in California were 10% below the median state of a 17-state study sample for claims with experience through March 2023, a study from the Workers Compensation Research...