Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Company Hit with $224K in Fines for Workplace Safety Violations
Nov 3 2016 // A Mineral Wells, Texas-based manufacturer is facing more than $224,000 in fines levied by federal safety officials after an investigation found the company failed to protect workers from safety and health hazards. The U.S....
Ohio Manufacturer Faces Nearly $215K in Fines Over Workplace Hazards
Nov 3 2016 // Federal safety officials have alleged that for at least two years, an Ohio manufacturer of thermoplastic lining systems for truck bodies and trailers exposed workers to the risk of amputation and other serious injury by...
Workers’ Compensation Spending on Drugs Falls 8.7%: Study
Nov 2 2016 // An analysis of pharmacy cost data shows there was an 8.7 percent drop in spending on drugs in 2015 in workers’ compensation injury cases. The decline in 2015 is consistent with the overall downward drug cost trend...
Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim Flatten in Indiana
Nov 1 2016 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana changed little from 2013 to 2014, a sharp contrast to the increases of the prior nine years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research...
Connecticut Insurance Department Approves NCCI Workers’ Comp Rate Filing
Nov 1 2016 // Connecticut Insurance Department Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced that the department has approved a rate filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) that decreases workers’ compensation...
Study Highlights Workers’ Comp Claim Differences in California’s Central Valley
Oct 31 2016 // Workers in California’s Central Valley have a distinctly different workers’ compensation claims experience than those in other regions in terms of notification and treatment lag times, mix of injuries, types of...
New York’s AmTrust Acquires AmeriHealth Casualty Insurance
Oct 31 2016 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc., a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in New York City, has entered into an agreement to acquire AmeriHealth Casualty Insurance Company from Independence Health Group Inc....
BrickStreet Mutual, Motorists Mutual Pursue Joint Venture
Oct 28 2016 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. announced they have begun to formalize an affiliation agreement between the two companies. If approved by state regulators and closed as anticipated in July...
California Commissioner Wants Workers’ Comp Insurers to Reduce Rates
Oct 27 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued a formal finding today that costs to insurers in the workers’ compensation system are declining and he’s asking workers’ comp insurers to pass those...
Study: Los Angeles Has Highest Workers’ Comp Claim Costs in California
Oct 25 2016 // The Los Angeles area continues to be a drag on California’s overall workers’ compensation costs, according to a study out today from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The WCIRB’s...
Industry Needs to Address Gaps in Workers’ Compensation, AMCOMP Panelists Say
Oct 25 2016 // At the American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals (AMCOMP) Fall Meeting held recently in New York, Mark Walls, vice president of communications and strategic analysis at Safety National, and Kimberly...
New Mexico Workers’ Comp Costs May Drop in 2017
Oct 25 2016 // New Mexico employers could see a decrease in their insurance costs for on-the-job injuries and deaths. The state Office of Superintendent of Insurance says a key factor in calculating individual employers’...
RV Salesman in Washington Caught on Camera in Workers’ Comp Scam Fined $81K
Oct 24 2016 // A recreational vehicle salesman in Washington who claimed he couldn’t work because of an on-the-job injury has been ordered to pay back more than $81,000 in state disability benefits. Bobby Ray Johnson, 48, pleaded...
It’s Official: Florida Workers’ Comp Rates Going Up Nearly 15%
Oct 24 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has issued a final order granting approval to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) for an overall combined statewide average rate increase of 14.5 percent....
Spotlight: How Analyzing Workers’ Comp Claims Helps Both Clients and Their Brokers
Oct 24 2016 // Data analytics on claims (specifically workers’ compensation claims) adds clarity for the client when identifying underlying issues they need to focus their loss control efforts on. This article outlines the main...
Workers’ Comp Benefits for Injured Workers Reach Historic Lows: Report
Oct 24 2016 // Workers’ compensation benefits as a share of payroll have reached historically low levels, according to a new study. Despite growth in employment during the economic recovery – and the corresponding uptick in...
Indiana, Kansas to See Lower Workers’ Comp Rates Next Year
Oct 24 2016 // Indiana and Kansas employers will see workers’ compensation insurance rates decrease in 2017, according to the insurance departments in both states. The Kansas Insurance Department said the 2017 rate filing by the...
California Company Says CDI Wrongly Halting Sales of Workers’ Comp Product
Oct 21 2016 // The head of a business providing worker’s compensation and other benefits that was issued a cease and desist notice from the California Department of Insurance this week says the notice was wrongly issued. The CDI...
California Company’s Workers’ Comp Program Declared Illegal
Oct 20 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones moved to stop a central valley company from selling workers’ compensation and liability policies because they are not properly registered with the Department of...
New Texas ‘Two-Step’ Program Aims to Simplify Workers’ Comp Disputes
Oct 19 2016 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is taking a promising pilot program statewide to help simplify and speed resolution of some disputes. A pilot started last year splits up related claim issues so that a...
