Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CDI: True Religion Subcontractor Underreported $78M in Payroll
May 4 2015 // The owners of sewing companies subcontracted by True Religion Brand Jeans were arrested in mid-April on 18 felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud totaling more than $11 million in losses. Sung Hyun...
Tennessee Workers Comp Opt-Out Legislation Revised, Ready for Next Session
May 4 2015 // Legislation seeking to provide Tennessee employers with an option to the current workers’ compensation system has been amended and deferred to the next legislative session. State Sen. Mark Green, who authored the...
NCCI to Run Tennessee Workers’ Comp Plan
May 4 2015 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has chosen the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as the new plan administrator for the residual market, the Tennessee Workers Compensation Insurance...
Beating Up on Workers’ Comp: Grand Bargain Taking Jabs from Multiple Directions
May 4 2015 // The state-based workers’ compensation system has stayed on its feet for 100 years in part by being able to defend itself against blows and then counterpunch when necessary. It has shown an ability to reform to fit...
Michigan Workers’ Comp Costs Drop, Employment Rises
May 4 2015 // Michigan has had some positive developments on the employment and workers’ compensation fronts lately and state officials have been eager to share the news. Workers’ comp costs for employers in Michigan have...
Arkansas Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop
May 4 2015 // The Arkansas Insurance Department in mid-April announced a decrease in workers’ compensation rates that will become effective July 1. The overall loss cost decrease in the voluntary market is 2.1 percent, while the...
Rough Patches Aside, Oklahoma Comp Reform Works, Advocates Say
May 4 2015 // In his resignation letter to the governor, the first chairman of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission admitted that mistakes had been made in transitioning the state’s workers’ comp system from a...
Oklahoma High Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Work Comp Alternative
Apr 30 2015 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has declined to take up a case challenging the constitutionality of the portion of the state’s workers’ compensation law that allows companies to employ an alternative to...
WCRI: Medical Payment Per Claim in California Fell Following Reforms
Apr 30 2015 // The average medical payment per claim for treating injured workers fell by 5 percent in California in 2013, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The findings could reflect some early impact...
CPro Associates Enters Texas Work Comp Nonsubscriber Market
Apr 29 2015 // Dallas-based insurance wholesaler CPro Associates Inc. now offers nonsubscriber plans to agents with clients that have elected to opt out of Texas workers’ compensation. CPro Associates reached an agreement with...
California Pot Dispensary Owners Nabbed For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 28 2015 // The owners of the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Palmdale, Calif., were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud. Tiffany Shorter, 26, and Jabe Satterfield, 77, failed to carry...
Workers’ Comp Study: California Reforms Lowered Medical Payments Per Claim
Apr 23 2015 // A study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute indicates some benefits were had from California’s workers’ compensation reform bill. This WCRI 15th edition of the CompScope’ Benchmarks study...
Mississippi Home Builder Fined $59K in Worker’s Death
Apr 23 2015 // A company faces up to $58,700 in fines after a construction worker died while working on the second story of an Ocean Springs, Mississippi home. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday that it...
California Workers’ Comp Premium Up 11% in 2014; Combined Ratio Still Exceeds 100
Apr 20 2015 // California written premium for calendar year 2014 was roughly $16.5 billion, 11 percent above the total in 2013 and 88 percent above the written premium reported for 2009, according to a report from the California...
Patriot National Buys Software Firm, Vikaran, and India Development Unit
Apr 20 2015 // Florida-based workers’ compensation outsourcing services firm Patriot National Inc. has acquired Vikaran Solutions, a Chicago-based insurance technology company, and its Pune, India-based software development center,...
Cracking Under Pressure: Answers to the Workers’ Compensation Quiz
Apr 20 2015 // We gave you the questions on Friday; you have had all weekend to ponder your responses. Here are the answers for which you have been waiting. Good luck, we hope you do well. 1. What country was the first to implement a...
Illinois Gov. Wants Lower Workers’ Comp Costs
Apr 20 2015 // High on the list of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s legislative priorities is reducing the amount employers pay for workers’ compensation insurance. Illinois currently has some of the highest workers’ comp...
N.H. Court: Worker Entitled to Benefits for ‘Mixed Risk’ Injury
Apr 20 2015 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in March that a worker who fell asleep while driving a company truck and hit a utility pole in the course of his employment is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for the...
Cracking Under the Pressure of Workers’ Compensation: Testing Your Workers’ Compensation Knowledge
Apr 17 2015 // Test your knowledge of workers’ compensation by answering 21 questions covering the most important workers’ compensation facts and concepts. A wide array of work comp-specific topics is tested in this article:...
NCCI Named Plan Administrator for Tennessee Workers Comp Insurance Plan
Apr 17 2015 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has chosen the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as the new plan administrator for the Tennessee Workers Compensation Insurance Plan...
