Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease for Third Year in a Row
Feb 20 2019 // Workers’ compensation insurance will continue to cost less for most Vermont employers when new rates approved by the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) become effective on April 1, 2019. This is the third rate...
PMC Insurance Group Hires Skinner as Assistant Vice President in Massachusetts
Feb 19 2019 // PMC Insurance Group, a Bedford, Mass.-headquartered, national workers’ compensation wholesaler, has hired Richard Skinner as assistant vice president for its staffing programs division, StaffPRO3. In his new role,...
NSAIDs Overtake Opioids as Top Workers’ Comp Drug in California
Feb 15 2019 // Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, or NSAIDs, have supplanted opioids as the most common therapeutic drug group prescribed to injured workers in California, according to a new California Workers’ Compensation...
Texas Bill Would Protect First Responders’ Work Comp Claims from Illegal Denials
Feb 15 2019 // A bill recently filed in the Texas House of Representatives would penalize insurers that illegally deny Texas first responders access to medical treatment for line-of-duty injuries covered under state workers’...
N.Y. Construction Worker Injured by Steel Plate
Feb 15 2019 // Police in Long Island, N.Y., say a construction worker has his legs severed below the knee when a steel plate knocked him into a hole and landed on him. Officials say the unidentified 39-year-old man was working to install...
Texas Indoor Gun Range Cited for Lead Exposure, Fined $214K
Feb 14 2019 // An indoor gun range in Killeen, Texas, has been cited and fined more than $214,000 for exposing employees to unsafe levels of lead, federal safety regulators said. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
Brown Reappointed as Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner
Feb 7 2019 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has reappointed Cassie Brown as Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI). Her term will expire on Feb. 1, 2021. Brown has served as workers’ comp...
Appalachian Underwriters Adds 4 to Missouri Workers’ Comp Unit
Feb 6 2019 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc. (AUI) has hired four workers’ compensation underwriting professionals in its St. Peters, Missouri, office. Tara Regan-Collins, senior underwriter, is a seasoned insurance professional,...
West Virginia Gov. Appoints Hunter Acting Insurance Commissioner
Feb 6 2019 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has appointed Erin K. Hunter as acting insurance commissioner for the state, effective Jan. 25, 2019. She takes over for Allan McVey who was appointed by Justice last month as Secretary...
Independent Agent Group Taps Texas Mutual as Endorsed Work Comp Carrier
Feb 4 2019 // Texas’ largest independent insurance agent association and the state’s leading workers’ compensation insurance carrier have formed a strategic partnership. The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT)...
The MEMIC Group Promotes Greco to Business Segment Leader in Northeast
Jan 31 2019 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Dustin Greco to business segment leader to support the company’s continued growth of the small business market in the Northeast. Greco’s...
Pennsylvania’s Largest Workers’ Comp Insurer Files Plan to Correct Charges
Jan 31 2019 // Pennsylvania’s State Workers Insurance Fund (SWIF), the largest writer of workers’ comp insurance in Pennsylvania, has filed a plan to retroactively correct charges to employers for their workers’...
Normandy Insurance Enters Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Market
Jan 30 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier, Normandy Insurance Company, has expanded into Oklahoma and is now offering workers’ comp coverage to small, mid-size and large businesses in the...
Southeast Officials Focus on Curbing Fraud, Rising Auto Rates, Flood Insurance, Distracted Driving
Jan 29 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Workers’ Compensation Insurtech Pie Insurance Enters 5 Additional States
Jan 25 2019 // Online seller Pie Insurance has started offering its workers compensation insurance in five more states, bringing the total to 14. The Washington, D.C.-based managing general agent disclosed it has begun marketing its...
Houston Company to Pay $250K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jan 23 2019 // A Houston company has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation premium fraud in a case that spanned four years, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation announced. According to the...
What to Watch for in Workers’ Compensation in 2019
Jan 23 2019 // Value-based care, political party changes in several states, and a more holistic view of patient injuries will impact the workers’ compensation industry this year, according to two experts hosting a workers’...
Differences in Opioid Dispensing Rates
Jan 21 2019 // Injured workers in mining and construction, those in rural counties or those who suffer fractures, carpal tunnel and neurologic spine pain are among those more likely to receive prescriptions for opioids than workers in...
How Commercial Insurance Rates Changed in Q4 and 2018: IVANS
Jan 21 2019 // Renewal premium rates for nearly all major commercial insurance lines increased in the fourth quarter of last year with the exception of workers’ compensation where the average rate dropped and remained negative. The...
Flood Coverage, TWIA, Workers’ Comp Relativities Among TDI Concerns in Legislative Report
Jan 21 2019 // In its 2018 Biennial Report to the Legislature dated Dec. 14, 2018, the Texas Department of Insurance made several recommendations to state lawmakers regarding issues the agency believes are worth looking at in the...
