Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
How COVID Effect on Workers’ Compensation Claims Has Varied by State, Industry
Jan 14 2021 // The percentage of COVID-19 claims among all workers’ compensation paid claims has varied greatly among states and occupations, as has the decrease in non-COVID claims, new research shows. The percentage of COVID-19...
New Wave of Virus Claims Hit California Workers’ Comp
Jan 14 2021 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute analysis of claims reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation as of Jan. 11 shows that the number of COVID-19 claims in the California workers’...
Clifford to Lead Risk Placement Services’ Workers’ Comp Programs in Michigan
Jan 12 2021 // Risk Placement Services (RPS), the E&S wholesale broker, managing general agency and program administrator, has appointed Joe Clifford to lead its self-insured workers’ compensation programs in Michigan within...
Kansas Supreme Court Backs Workers’ Compensation Law
Jan 11 2021 // The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a state law that governs how much money workers who are injured on the job can collect. The court ruled that an amendment to the Kansas Workers’ Compensation Act was constitutional...
LUBA Workers’ Comp Acquires Florida-Based FHM Insurance Services
Jan 7 2021 // The board of directors of LUBA Workers’ Comp, a regional casualty insurance company insuring businesses across the Gulf South, has approved the acquisition of Florida based FHM Insurance Services. FHM Insurance Co.,...
New California Trade Group Targets Illegal Workers’ Comp in Staffing Industry
Jan 7 2021 // The California Staffing Agency Reform Association has been established by staffing industry leaders to “clean up” the worker’s compensation marketplace for staffing. Cal-SARA, a new nonprofit, trade...
OSHA Now Accepting 2020 Workplace Injury Submissions Through March 2
Jan 4 2021 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers that the agency will begin collecting calendar year 2020 workplace injury data (Form 300A) on Jan. 2, 2021. Employers must submit the form...
Maine High Court Finds Aquaculture Worker Covered by State Workers’ Comp
Jan 4 2021 // An aquaculture worker who got hurt tending to salmon raised in offshore pens is covered under state law, but not under the federal law that defines some of the rights for mariners, Maine’s supreme court ruled. The...
CNA Transfers $690M of Excess Workers’ Compensation Business to Enstar Subsidiary
Jan 4 2021 // Commercial lines insurer CNA Financial Corp. and Enstar on Dec. 30, 2020 said they had reached an agreement to have a subsidiary of Enstar reinsure a legacy portfolio of excess workers’ compensation policies,...
California Cleaning Company Owner Charged in $700K Workers’ Comp Scheme
Dec 28 2020 // Jorge Gerardo Maldonado, 55, of Sacramento, Calif., was charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll and employees to illegally save on workers’ compensation insurance...
California COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claim Volume Trending up Again
Dec 22 2020 // California workers’ comp COVID-19 monthly claim volume, which fell sharply in August and September, is now trending up again, climbing 9.0% in October, then more than doubling in November, according to a California...
Michigan’s AF Group Makes Executive Changes in Workers’ Comp Division
Dec 22 2020 // AF Group, based in Lansing, Mich., has made several executive appointments and promotions within its Workers’ Compensation division. Michelle McLane, named senior vice president of Business Development. With a strong...
Expansion of Workers’ Comp for COVID-19 Created Narrow Benefit in 6 States
Dec 21 2020 // While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers’ compensation benefits for employees who contract COVID-19, many of those directives are creating new exposure for only a...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium Down 12% over 9 Months of 2020
Dec 18 2020 // Workers’ compensation written premium in California for the first nine months of 2020 was 12% below that for the first nine months of 2019, according to a quarterly experience report released on Friday by the...
OSHA Updates Targeted Workplaces Inspection Program
Dec 17 2020 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is updating its inspection program that targets its enforcement resources to establishments with the highest rates of injuries and illnesses. The Site-Specific...
Texas Workers’ Compensation System’s Path to Wellness
Dec 16 2020 // Since 2003, insurance rates in the Texas workers’ compensation system have dropped by nearly 72 percent, according to a new study released by a research group within the state’s insurance department. In 2003,...
Court Nixes Ruling Granting Workers’ Comp Benefits to Family of Slain Alabama Worker
Dec 14 2020 // A Jefferson County court erred when it ruled the city of Birmingham should have to pay benefits to relatives of a city worker who was shot to death while cutting grass, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled Friday. The...
California Workers’ Comp Public Self-Insured Med-Only Claims Drop
Dec 11 2020 // Initial data on fiscal year 2019/2020 public self-insured claims experience in the California workers’ compensation system show claim volume fell 6.4% compared with the prior year, but medical-only claims accounted...
Next Insurance Buys Data Firm Juniper Labs to Enhance Workers’ Compensation Offering
Dec 11 2020 // Digital small business insurer Next Insurance has closed its first acquisition, buying Juniper Labs, a Denver-based provider of data and underwriting technology. With the acquisition, Next said it will focus on innovation...
Florida Approves 6.6% Rate Decrease to Workers’ Comp Rates
Dec 9 2020 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has issued a final order approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)’s filing for a statewide overall decrease of 6.6% for Florida workers’...
