Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Insurer Cancels Policies for Hawaii Pot Firms
Jun 30 2017 // Hawaii’s largest workers’ compensation insurer is canceling insurance policies for seven medical marijuana dispensaries preparing to open this summer. Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Co., citing...
SUNZ in Florida Promotes Bolinder to COO, Appoints Distefano Chief Technology Officer
Jun 30 2017 // SUNZ Insurance Company, a large deductible workers’ compensation carrier, has promoted Karen Bolinder from director of Financial Operations to chief operating officer. In her new position, Bolinder will be...
Mississippi Court: Workers’ Comp Benefits Owed to Officer Injured While Speeding
Jun 29 2017 // Mississippi’s Court of Appeals says the city of Jackson can’t deny workers’ compensation benefits to a police officer injured in a wreck while he was speeding. The court ruled 10-0 Tuesday that the city...
Rand Report Recommends Analytics for Fraud Prevention in Workers’ Comp
Jun 28 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted a report from the Rand Corp. with recommendations to prevent fraud in the workers’ compensation system. The Department of Industrial Relations last...
Missouri Plumbing Contractor Hit with $714K in Fines Over Trench Collapse
Jun 28 2017 // A month after a 33-year-old worker died while working in an unprotected trench, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found another employee of the same Missouri plumbing...
How States Rate in Preventing Home, Auto, Work Accidents
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
Massachusetts’ Knight-Dik Insurance: 100 Years, Four Generations
Jun 28 2017 // When Thomas Babb launched his insurance agency – Thomas Babb Insurance Agency – in an 11-story building in downtown Worcester, Mass., in 1917, he also launched a legacy that would span a century of growth and four...
Number of Compound Drug Prescriptions Falling in Texas Workers’ Comp System
Jun 26 2017 // A report released in May by the Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation shows that while the number of compounded drug prescriptions in the workers’ comp system grew between 2010 and...
Massachusetts Worker Injured on the Job Wins $750K Jury Award
Jun 26 2017 // A Massachusetts jury has recently awarded $750,000 to a man who suffered severe leg injuries while working for a landscaping business that did not carry workers’ compensation insurance. A lawyer for 52-year-old Jose...
California Chamber and 2 Workers’ Comp Groups File Brief in Utilization Review Case
Jun 23 2017 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute, the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Coalition of Workers’ Compensation have filed a joint amicus brief in Stevens v. WCAB, the long-running...
NYC Fire Officials Say Three Workers Injured at Construction Site
Jun 22 2017 // Three construction workers were injured in Queens when the roof of a two-story brownstone undergoing renovations collapsed. It happened on 28th Road in Astoria just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. Fire officials say a load of...
WCRI Researchers Compare States on Injured Workers Returning to Work
Jun 21 2017 // From 10 to 18 percent of injured workers never reach “substantial return to work,” according to new research by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) comparing outcomes for injured workers in six...
2 Common Workers’ Comp Mistakes
Jun 21 2017 // Thank you, Kevin Ring, for this guest post. Kevin is our guest instructor this week at Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance and is Lead Workers’ Compensation Analyst at the Institute for WorkComp...
Investigation Solutions Assists in $32 Million Employer Fraud Case
Jun 21 2017 // San Diego, CA, June 21, 2017- Investigation Solutions, Inc. (ISI) worked alongside the California Department of Insurance in a $32 million workers’ compensation fraud case that resulted in an arrest earlier this...
Arrowhead in California Launches Hard-to-Place Workers’ Comp Subsidiary
Jun 20 2017 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. in San Diego, Calif. has launched a workers’ compensation wholesale brokerage arm that provides market access and specializes in harder-to-place risks and multi-state...
South Dakota Workers’ Comp Lawyers Say Insurers’ Plan Would Limit Worker Rights
Jun 19 2017 // Lawyers who represent injured workers in South Dakota are preparing for a proposal from the insurance industry that would limit their ability to pursue legal claims against insurance companies that are intentionally...
Whirlpool Risk Manager Strives to Solve Problems Before They Occur
Jun 19 2017 // A big part of risk management is acting to prevent problems before they happen — whether it involves the health and safety of employees, outside market forces, or mergers and acquisitions, according to the risk...
Work Comp Income Benefits Fall Short
Jun 19 2017 // Adequacy of income benefits is one of the long-standing concerns about the performance of workers’ compensation systems. However, there is little known about whether income benefits (also called wage-loss or...
Mass. Court Says Suspended Public Employee Can Receive Workers’ Comp
Jun 19 2017 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that an injured public employee is still eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits after being suspended from employment. The court concluded workers’...
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends Psychiatrist for Fraud
Jun 19 2017 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended Pasadena psychiatrist Jason Hui-Tek Yang from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system following his conviction in Riverside...
