Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Commissioner Issues Decision on Workers’ Comp Regulatory Filing
Oct 19 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued a decision regarding the Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau’s Jan. 1, 2017 regulatory filing submitted to the California Department of Insurance in...
Oklahoma Waiting for Guidance on Workers’ Comp Opt Out Transition
Oct 19 2016 // There seems to be more questions than answers as to what happens next in the wake of the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s finding that the opt out portion of the state’s 2013 comprehensive workers’ compensation...
Report Shows California and New Jersey Have Highest Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows. A report released this week by the Oregon...
Cogan Appointed Chief Legal Counsel at Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Oct 18 2016 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Sarah Morrison has appointed Kevin Cogan as the bureau’s chief legal counsel. Cogan will be a member of BWC’s executive staff, responsible for...
Indiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop 9.3% Next Year
Oct 17 2016 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson has approved a 9.3 percent reduction in workers’ compensation insurance rates that becomes effective Jan. 1, 2017. The approved rate decrease will...
Texas Health Clinic Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp, Insurance Fraud
Oct 17 2016 // The owner of a Houston health clinic pled guilty to insurance fraud after billing for medical services – often provided to injured employees – despite having no licensed medical staff at the clinic, the Texas...
New California Workers’ Comp Law on Excluded Employees Causing Headaches
Oct 17 2016 // In advance of a possible headache brewing for workers’ compensation providers, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Monday notified all workers’ comp insurers writing policies in the state about...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Hires Levesque
Oct 17 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Adam Levesque as safety management consultant to provide safety training services and advice to MEMIC’s customer...
Illinois Plumbing Contractor Fined $275.7K for Trenching Hazards
Oct 14 2016 // Federal safety officials say that less than three weeks after being cited for exposing workers to unsafe trenches, investigators saw a Chicago plumbing contractor exposing the same four-man crew to trenching hazards as...
Louisiana Chemical Manufacturer Fined $92.6K for Serious Safety Violations
Oct 14 2016 // Federal safety officials have cited a Louisiana chemical manufacturer for nine serious and two other violations, and issued fines of more than $92,000. The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health...
California Commissioner Awards $34.9M to Fight Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 13 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced he has awarded $34.9 million in grants to 37 district attorney offices representing 44 counties across California to combat workers’ compensation insurance...
Looking at Injured Worker Benefits from California Comp Reforms out to 2020
Oct 13 2016 // Will workers’ compensation benefits from California’s sweeping reform law passed in 2012 help or hurt injured employees over the next four years? Some people didn’t want to wait until 2020 to answer that...
2 Workers Injured in Suburban Chicago Natural Gas Explosion
Oct 13 2016 // Authorities say a natural gas explosion and fire at a townhouse complex in suburban Chicago has injured two utility workers. The explosion in Romeoville, Illinois, was reported Tuesday evening. Authorities say the...
Delaware Approves Amended Workers’ Compensation Rate Filing
Oct 13 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart approved the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB)’s workers’ compensation amended rate filing, which recommends no changes in the overall levels of...
OSHA Proposes 18 Changes to Safety Standards to Reduce Employer Costs
Oct 12 2016 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing 18 changes to the agency’s recordkeeping, general industry, maritime and construction standards. The agency estimates that proposed revisions could save...
LCTA Now Writing Workers’ Comp in Mississippi
Oct 12 2016 // LCTA Workers’ Comp (LCTA), a Louisiana’s workers’ compensation provider, has expanded its geographic reach to include Mississippi. The company has also secured a license to write insurance in Arkansas. On...
BreweryPak Introduces Workers’ Comp Coverage for Breweries
Oct 12 2016 // BreweryPak, an insurance program designed for breweries, is now offering a new workers’ compensation coverage for their insured breweries across the country. Backed by Great American Insurance Group—which writes...
Workers’ Comp Rates in Idaho to Decrease for 2017
Oct 11 2016 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an overall rate drop of 1.2 percent percent in workers’ compensation insurance to become effective...
LCTA Workers’ Comp Expands to Mississippi and Arkansas
Oct 11 2016 // LCTA Workers’ Comp announced that it will be expanding its geographic reach to include Mississippi and Arkansas. LCTA at the start of the month began writing lines of workers’ comp coverage to...
New Scrutiny for Oklahoma Workers’ Comp System
Oct 11 2016 // Three years after passage of sweeping legislation that revamped Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system, courts are scrapping significant parts of the law in decisions that say the regulations violate the state...
