Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maine-Based MEMIC Group Promotes Sabatino
Dec 13 2016 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, has promoted Deb Sabatino to the position of director of human resources. In this role, she is responsible for planning and managing...
Top Florida Stories of 2016: Workers’ Comp Market in Turmoil
Dec 12 2016 // It’s been a tumultuous year for the Florida insurance industry. It would seem the biggest story would be the end of Florida’s hurricane drought as the state got hit by not one, but two hurricanes this year, the...
3 Texas Companies Rack Up $277K in Penalties for Safety Violations
Dec 9 2016 // Together, three Texas companies are facing federal penalties totaling more than $277,000 for failing to provide safe environments for their employees. During the past two weeks, the federal Occupational Safety and Health...
Study: California Medical Payments Per Comp Claim Decreased After Reforms
Dec 9 2016 // California Senate Bill 863 may have contributed to decreases in medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in 2013 and 2014, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The WCRI study...
TPA Gallagher Bassett Names McNamara as Managing Director, Australia
Dec 7 2016 // Third party administrator Gallagher Bassett (GB)* has appointed John McNamara to the position of managing director – Australia, effective Jan. 1, 2017. McNamara succeeds Jon Winsbury who is moving into the role of...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division: Rates Among Nation’s Lowest
Dec 5 2016 // Texas has some of the nation’s most affordable workers’ compensation coverage, the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation reports. A study by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services ranks...
Louisiana Ranked No. 2 in Worker Safety
Dec 5 2016 // The rate of work-related injuries and illnesses among Louisiana’s private sector employers improved in 2015 to the best level in 14 years, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported. That’s according to a...
The New OSHA Rules = No Secrets
Dec 5 2016 // On May 12, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) changed the way the workplace injury game is played. Many believe the playing field was tipped in OSHA’s direction. This will have a dramatic...
2016 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed: Demotech
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
ACA Does Not Hurt Medical Care Access for Workers’ Comp Claimants: Study
Dec 5 2016 // New research has found that while the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has dramatically increased the number of people who are medically insured, it has not hurt access to medical care for workers’...
DIR: California Independent Medical Review Shows Improvements
Dec 5 2016 // A California Department of Industrial Relations progress report shows continuing improvement of the state’s Independent Medical Review process. IMR is the medical dispute resolution process that uses medical...
Washington Workers’ Comp Rates for 2017 to Increase Less Than 1%
Nov 30 2016 // The average premium for workers’ compensation coverage in Washington will go up less than 1 percent in 2017, according to the Department of Labor & Industries. LL&I announced today the rate will rise by an...
Court: Workers’ Comp Medical Exam not False Imprisonment in Michigan
Nov 30 2016 // A medical appointment that lasts hours might be an annoyance, but it’s not false imprisonment in Michigan. A federal appeals court last week ruled in favor of an insurance company in a dispute over an exam for a man...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Reforms Saving $1.3B Annually
Nov 30 2016 // A look back at the performance of a law reforming California’s worker’s compensation system that took effect in 2013 shows more than $1 billion in savings has been created. The Workers’ Compensation...
National Study Finds Pennsylvania Improved in State Workers’ Comp Costs
Nov 30 2016 // A national study conducted by The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services shows Pennsylvania has improved its standing among states under Governor Tom Wolf’s administration in workers’ compensation...
NFL Players with CTE Sue to Force Teams to Pay Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Nov 30 2016 // A group of 38 former National Football League players have sued to force the NFL to pay them workers’ compensation benefits for the chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) they say they developed as a result of head...
Brentwood Services Administrators Hires Greene as Senior Claim Representative in Georgia
Nov 30 2016 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. has hired Stephanie Greene as a senior claim representative in the DeKalb County office in Stone Mountain, Ga., according to Jeff Pettus, president and chief executive officer of...
Florida Appeals Judge’s Order Halting 14.5% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Nov 29 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) is appealing a court order invalidating its approved 14.5 rate increase on Florida workers’ compensation rates that was set to take effect Dec. 1. OIR filed its Notice...
Kentucky Judge Allows Bevin to Appoint Workers’ Comp Judges
Nov 28 2016 // A Kentucky judge has cleared the way for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin to appoint six administrative law judges to help ease a backlog of workers’ compensation cases. The ruling by Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip...
Judge Halts Florida’s 14.5% Workers’ Compensation Hike Set for Dec. 1
Nov 27 2016 // A Florida circuit judge has blocked a 14.5 percent workers’ compensation rate increase due to go into effect Dec. 1 after finding that the insurers’ rating organization and state officials did not comply with...
