Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
16 Nabbed in Florida Sting Operation for Failing to Get Workers’ Comp Coverage
May 1 2024 // A sting operation in Manatee County, Florida, has led to the arrest of 16 men who were working without a contractor’s license and without securing workers’ compensation insurance on their employees. The sting...
New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal
May 1 2024 // On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began...
OSHA Cites Hanover Foods for 70 Alleged Safety Violations
May 1 2024 // Pennsylvania-based food manufacturer Hanover Foods Corp. has been found in violation of dozens of safety and health hazards at its Centre Hall facility, according to federal officials. The federal Occupational Safety and...
Price or Safety? Priorities Change for Small Businesses After a Workers Comp Claim
Apr 26 2024 // Previous workers’ compensation claims can present an opportunity for agents serving small-business clients. The Hanover’s “2024 Small Business Risk Report: A Focus on Workers’ Compensation,”...
Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau of California OKs Higher Pure Premium Rate Filing
Apr 26 2024 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California submitted its Sept. 1, 2024, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory rates on average 0.9% above the...
‘It’s in the Mail’ Is Not Good Enough to Protest Workers’ Compensation Claim
Apr 25 2024 // A Connecticut employer lost its right to contest a workers’ compensation claim because although it mailed its notice to the workers’ compensation law judge within the 28 day statutory period, the judge did not...
Workers’ Comp Apportion Evals Must be Well-Reasoned, WV Supreme Court Says
Apr 24 2024 // West Virginia law, like statutes in a number of states, allows employers to try and apportion contributions to a worker’s injury, including how much a pre-existing condition may have played a role. The...
Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee Oks Higher Pure Premium Rate Filing
Apr 17 2024 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2024 Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Insurance...
California Chiropractor Sentenced to 54 Years for $150M Workers’ Comp Scheme
Apr 16 2024 // A former chiropractor was sentenced to 54 years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in fines for his role in orchestrating a massive workers’ compensation fraud scheme totaling $150...
Kansas Governor Signs Law to Increase Benefits to Injured Workers
Apr 15 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will increase what have been among the lowest benefits in the U.S. for workers who are injured or killed on the job under bipartisan legislation that Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law...
Oregon OSHA Fines Bend Contractor $103K for Repeated Fall Protection Violations
Apr 15 2024 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a Bend construction company $103,438 for repeatedly violating a requirement to provide protective systems to safeguard workers from fall hazards. The division cited...
California Self-Insured Group Applauds Workers’ Comp Classification Changes
Apr 12 2024 // The California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. is applauding upcoming changes in workers’ compensation classifications for California’s restaurant and hospitality sectors, The changes were announced by the...
Report: Four-in-10 California Workers’ Comp Claims from Workers with Less Than a Year of Tenure
Apr 4 2024 // Roughly four-in-10 workers’ compensation claims come from workers with less than one year of tenure, a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows. The report shows 40%...
Virginia Gov. Youngkin Vetoes Retail Marijuana, Minimum Wage Hike, Workers’ Comp Bills
Apr 3 2024 // Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities last Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a...
Oregon OSHA Fines Bend Contractor $103K for Repeated Fall Protection Violations
Apr 1 2024 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a Bend construction company $103,438 for repeatedly violating a requirement to provide protective systems to safeguard workers from fall hazards. The division cited...
Two Iowa Men Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Mar 27 2024 // Two Iowa men were sentenced this month in connection with workers’ compensation fraud. Trey Wysocki, age 40, of New Virginia was sentenced on March 11, 2024, after pleading guilty to one count of Insurance Fraud...
Dean’s Sausage Faces $116K OSHA Penalty Over Alleged Workplace Hazards
Mar 27 2024 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says that a second inspection of Dean Sausage Co. Inc. in Ayyalia, Alabama found similar workplace safety hazards as identified in a 2022 inspection,...
Maine Approves 19% Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs Starting in April
Mar 26 2024 // Newly-installed Maine Insurance Superintendent Robert Carey announced approval of an average workers’ compensation insurance loss cost decrease of 19%. The new loss costs go into effect for new and renewing policies...
Coming and Going, Extended Premises Rules Don’t Help Employee Injured on Crosswalk
Mar 25 2024 // An employee of a diagnostics firm in Virginia who was injured when she fell on a crosswalk on her way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission...
Report Looks at Cumulative Trauma and Litigated Claims in California Workers’ Comp
Mar 18 2024 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows nearly half of all litigated claims in the Los Angeles Basin are cumulative trauma claims that involve physical or mental injuries from repetitive stress,...
