Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Father And Son Charged for $12M Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 2 2022 // Edgardo Cabrales Sr., 61, and his son, Edgar Cabrales Jr., 36, both of San Jose, California, were charged with five felony counts each of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they...
New York’s Workers’ Compensation Fund Now Covers Out-Of-State Workers
Oct 31 2022 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, announced that it will extend coverage to out-of-state employees for the first time. Under the initiative, any New...
Federal Court Finds Pennsylvania Poultry Farm in Contempt Over OSHA Penalties
Oct 28 2022 // A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards. The U.S....
Cities Must Bargain Over Termination of Injured Workers: New York High Court
Oct 27 2022 // New York labor law requires a municipality to negotiate when terminating employees who are not at work for over a year because of an on-the-job injury, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. The state’s high court...
Connecticut Approves 3% Cut in Workers’ Compensation Costs for 2023
Oct 24 2022 // Connecticut businesses will see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023. The Connecticut Insurance Department has officially approved an average decrease of 3% to...
Study Traces COVID-19 Impact on New York Workers’ Compensation Claims
Oct 21 2022 // During the height of the pandemic, New York workers’ compensation indemnity payments increased while medical payments decreased. That’s according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Federal Judge Dismisses FedEx From Indiana Shooting Lawsuit, Citing Work Comp Act
Oct 20 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed FedEx from a lawsuit filed by relatives of five of the eight people who were fatally shot last year at an Indianapolis warehouse by a former employee of the shipping giant. U.S. District Judge...
Idaho’s Workers’ Comp Rates Decreasing 11.5% for 2023
Oct 18 2022 // The Idaho Department of Insurance accepted a 11.5% reduction in rates, effective January 1, 2023. This follows the National Council on Compensation Insurance submission of its annual rate recommendation to the Idaho...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop by Double Digits: Navarro
Oct 18 2022 // Delaware workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the sixth year in a row, effective December 1, 2022. Both the voluntary market and the residual market will see rate decreases in the double...
School Executives Arrested in California Workers’ Comp Scheme
Oct 17 2022 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest of Rene Carlos Aguero, 71, and Gustavo Adolfo Lopez, 56, for allegedly submitting fraudulent vocational training vouchers for workers’...
Report: More than Half of California COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims in Healthcare
Oct 13 2022 // More than a half of all reported COVID-19 indemnity claims in California continue to arise from workers in the healthcare sector, according to a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The...
Texas Department of Work Comp Adopts MQRP Rule Changes
Oct 12 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has adopted amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code §180.62, concerning the Medical Quality Review Panel (MQRP). DWC proposed this rule...
Ohio Contractor Faces $1 Million in Fines for OSHA Violations
Oct 10 2022 // A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Indiana Approves Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates for 2023
Oct 5 2022 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard recently approved a decrease of 10.3% on average for Workers‘ Compensation rates recommended by the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau (ICRB), effective...
School Executives Arrested in California Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Oct 5 2022 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest last week of Rene Carlos Aguero, 71, and Gustavo Adolfo Lopez, 56, for allegedly submitting fraudulent vocational training vouchers for...
Workers’ Compensation Premiums Increase 10% for First Six Months of 2022
Oct 3 2022 // A comparison of workers’ compensation direct premium written indicated an overall increase of approximately 10.1% for the first six months of 2022 compared to the first six months of 2021. Twenty of the Top 25...
New Report on California Workers’ Comp Medical Payment Trends
Oct 3 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released an updated California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report for 2021. The latest annual report compares medical...
Washington Proposes 4.8% Workers’ Comp Increase for 2023
Oct 3 2022 // The Washington Department of Labor & Industries is proposing a 4.8% increase in the average price employers and workers pay for workers’ compensation insurance in 2023. Employers and workers would jointly pay an...
California Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Review Volume Fell in First Half of 2022
Oct 3 2022 // After hitting a record low in 2021, the number of independent medical reviews used to resolve California workers’ comp medical disputes continued to decline in the first half of 2022 according to the California...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium up 27% in First Half of 2022
Sep 30 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its Quarterly Experience Report, which reflects an increase in written premium due to economic recovery from the pandemic. The report is an...
