Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Contractor Faces $311K in Penalties for Exposing Workers to Safety Hazards
Nov 15 2018 // Northeast Framing Inc., a contractor based in Lunenberg, Mass., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for exposing workers to falls and other hazards...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department Plans Review of Two Workers’ Comp Filings
Nov 14 2018 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has received two mid-year workers’ compensation loss cost filings with a proposed effective date of January 1, 2019, from the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB). The...
Early Bills Filed for 2019 in Texas Include Insurance-Related Measures
Nov 13 2018 // Lawmakers have begun filing bills in the Texas Legislature for the legislative session that begins in January 2019. Among the bills filed so far that relate to property/casualty insurance include: HB 259: Relating to named...
New York Man Charged With More Than $15K in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 13 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business. Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Florida Approves 13.8% Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Nov 13 2018 // A revised workers compensation rate filing for a 13.8 percent decrease by the National Council on Compensation Insurance has been approved by Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier. The amended filing to...
Pinnacol in Colorado to Drop Workers’ Comp Rates, Issue Dividend in 2019
Nov 9 2018 // Pinnacol Assurance’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to decrease workers’ compensation rates in 2019 by an average of 10 percent. The decrease will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, and will be the fourth...
Can Commercial Auto Insurers Get to Profit Before Autonomous Vehicles Arrive?
Nov 9 2018 // Commercial auto insurance hasn’t produced an industrywide combined ratio below 105 in the United States since 2010, according to a Guy Carpenter analysis, which says the line’s poor performance is a key factor...
Tennessee Approves 19% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 8 2018 // Workers’ compensation rates in Tennessee will decrease by nearly 20 percent next year, marking the sixth consecutive year of decreases, according to a statement from the Tennessee Department of Commerce and...
California Lowers Workers’ Comp Advisory Rate Again
Nov 7 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday issued a revised advisory workers’ compensation pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $1.63 per $100 of payroll effective Jan. 1, 2019. Jones has...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease by Double-Digits in 2019
Nov 7 2018 // Florida workers’ compensation rates are going down again next year, the third decrease in the two years since significant Florida Supreme Court decisions created concern and uncertainty over future of the...
Texas Underground Tank Contractor Cited for Excavation Hazards
Nov 5 2018 // Federal workplace safety regulators have cited Texas-based UST Systems Inc. for trench safety violations after the company allowed its employees to enter an excavation site in Austin without proper protections or training...
North Carolina Approves 17.2% Rate Decrease for Workers’ Comp
Nov 5 2018 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau’s 17.2 percent rate decrease filing for workers’ compensation insurance has been approved by North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey, according to a statement from the...
Pie Founder Talks About Entry into California Workers’ Comp Market
Nov 5 2018 // The launch in the state marks the ninth market entry for the Insurtech in six months. Pie Insurance seems to be slicing its way through workers’ compensation markets in state after state. The Washington, D.C.-based...
Missouri Plumbing Contractor Admits to Safety Violations; Will Pay $225K Penalty
Nov 2 2018 // Arrow Plumbing LLC has admitted to willfully violating federal safety standards by failing to require and enforce the use of trench boxes or other trench protection techniques at a home construction site in Belton,...
Texas Metal Recycling Co. Cited for Employee Injury, Fined $311.5K
Nov 2 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited Venture Metals LLC – based in Dallas, Texas – for exposing employees to crushing hazards after a stack of pipes fell and crushed a worker, leading to his hospitalization. The company...
Texas Nurse Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Nov 1 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Kaydra Moore of Cedar Hill, Texas. on workers’ compensation fraud charges. The court sentenced Moore to a Class A misdemeanor with...
Connecticut Approves 17% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut for 2019
Oct 31 2018 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved a nearly 17 percent decrease in rates for workers’ compensation insurance, marking the fifth consecutive year that rates have dropped in Connecticut. “This...
A.M. Best Upgrades Ratings of Workers’ Comp Insurers Retail First, BusinessFirst of Florida
Oct 31 2018 // A.M. Best has upgraded the financial strength ratings of two workers’ compensation insurers based in Florida. RetailFirst Insurance Co. and BusinessFirst Insurance Co. have received a financial strength ratings of A-...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Proposes New Carrier Reimbursement Forms
Oct 30 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting comments on five newly proposed forms to help insurance carriers submit requests for reimbursement from the Subsequent Injury...
Cleaning Company Owner Pays $43K Restitution to Ohio Workers’ Comp Insurer
Oct 30 2018 // The owner of a Columbus, Ohio, cleaning company who continued to run his business after his workers’ compensation insurance lapsed in 2010 has paid more than $43,000 in restitution to the Ohio Bureau of...
