Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NCCI Recommends 8.4% Cut in Florida Workers’ Comp Rates for 2023
Aug 25 2022 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending an average 8.4% cut in workers’ compensation rates for the Florida voluntary market – the seventh straight reduction and double the size of the...
OSHA Cites Maryland Contractor for 136 ‘Willful, Repeat, Serious’ Safety Violations
Aug 25 2022 // A Maryland residential framing contractor – cited for 136 willful, repeat, serious and other violations in 20 workplace safety inspections since 2020 – continues to expose its workers to falls from elevation, the...
Iowa Man Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Aug 22 2022 // Thomas Stephanie, age 46, of Washington, Iowa, was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class D Felony) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud...
Florida Sting Operation Busted 13 Contractors Without Workers’ Comp
Aug 19 2022 // Unlicensed contractors, all without proper workers’ compensation insurance on their workers, have been charged in another law enforcement sting operation in Florida, authorities said. The state’s chief...
OSHA Charges Alabama Plastics Company With Willful Violations After Worker’s Death
Aug 17 2022 // An Alabama company has been charged with willfully violating federal safety rules in the death of a worker who was pulled into a machine and fatally injured, authorities said Monday. ABC Polymer Industries, which has a...
Cal/OSHA Issues Heat Warning to Protect Outdoor Workers
Aug 16 2022 // Cal/OSHA sent out heat warning for employers this week reminding them they are required to protect outdoor workers from heat illness following excessive heat watches being issued throughout California. The temperature is...
OSHA Investigating Deaths of Amazon Workers in New Jersey
Aug 15 2022 // Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the...
Wife of Former Texas Trucking Magnate Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Aug 12 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced last week that Francis Hall, the former co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking turned herself into Bexar County authorities. There had...
Officers Exempt from Workers’ Comp But Some Carriers Charging Anyway?
Aug 12 2022 // Tradespeople who call themselves and their workers “independent contractors” have long been an issue for the workers’ compensation industry, often cutting carriers out of premium and leaving injured...
Department of Labor Reopens Comment Period on Arizona’s OSHA Plan
Aug 11 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reopening the comment period for an additional 60 days on the proposal to reconsider and revoke the final approval of Arizona’s...
Pennsylvania Releases List of Workers’ Compensation Scofflaws
Aug 10 2022 // Pennsylvania officials have identified three dozen employers that are currently not carrying workers’ compensation insurance as required by state law. Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry (L&I)...
Nebraska Recycling Company Fined $338,000 for OSHA Violations
Aug 10 2022 // A 20-year-old worker’s attempt at clearing a jam in an industrial cardboard baler at a Grand Island, Nebraska waste disposal company turned tragic when the worker fell into the baler, became caught and suffered...
Ohio Bill Defines Work-From-Home Workers’ Comp Rule
Aug 10 2022 // An Ohio law set to go into effect next month amends workers’ compensation benefit requirements for employees who sustain an injury while working from home. House Bill 447 states than a work-from-home employee’s...
Jeff Nelson Appointed as Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation
Aug 9 2022 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Jeff Nelson as the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term set to expire on February 1, 2023. TDI’s Division of...
Texas Manufacturer Faces $249,000 in OSHA Penalties
Aug 9 2022 // A Jacksonville wood crate and pallet manufacturer’s history of workplace safety violations continues after federal inspectors found the company exposed workers to amputation hazards in its February 2022...
Surveillance, Posts Lead to Arrest of California Mechanic for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 5 2022 // Richard James McGee, 47, of San Bernardino, California, was arraigned today on two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found he allegedly...
Eight Contractors Charged in Florida Workers’ Comp Sting Operation
Aug 4 2022 // Eight Florida men have been charged with contracting without a license and failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance, after a sting operation led by state and local authorities. The Manatee County...
Workers’ Compensation Pays for Home Modifications. What About a New Home?
Aug 4 2022 // Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation law authorizes modifications to a home to accommodate an injured employee’s needs. It also may require paying for a new van for a disabled worker. However, does the...
Ohio Manufacturer Faces $480,000 in OSHA Penalties
Aug 3 2022 // Federal safety investigators found workers at General Aluminum Mfg. Co.’s Wapakoneta site exposed to machine hazards, just 36 days after they found similar violations at the aluminum vehicle parts...
Texas Department of Workers’ Comp Adopts Claim Electronic Data Interchange
Aug 2 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) adopted the Texas claim EDI release 3.1.4 standard on March 9, 2022. As a result, DWC’s designated data collection agent, Insurance...
