Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp is Biased Against Women, Suit States
Jul 25 2016 // California’s workers’ compensation system discriminates against women by judging benefits on the basis of stereotypes and ignoring harm done to women — such as refusing permanent benefits when a woman...
South Carolina Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Going Up, New Filing Requirements Take Effect
Jul 25 2016 // New requirements regarding the implementation of changes in workers’ compensation loss costs have been passed by the South Carolina Legislature, and the insurance department is reminding insurers to ensure they...
OSHA, State Probe New York’s Latest Crane Collapse
Jul 24 2016 // State and federal officials are investigating what caused a huge construction crane to collapse across the Tappan Zee Bridge north of New York City, an accident that somehow caused no serious injuries but added to a list...
Texas Air Liquide Plant Cited for Workplace Safety Violations
Jul 22 2016 // Federal safety officials have cited Air Liquide Large Industries US LP for workplace health and safety violations at the company’s plant in Corpus Christi, Texas. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Texas Regulators Recognize Chaparral Industries for Safety Programs
Jul 21 2016 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation recognized Chaparral Industries for exemplary workplace safety programs and low rates of work-related injuries and illnesses at its Odessa facility. Director of Workplace...
New York Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs Going Up Oct. 1
Jul 21 2016 // New York has approved a 9.3 percent average hike in workers’ compensation loss costs. The new benchmarks will go into effect Oct. 1. New York businesses, while not pleased, see the hike as necessary in order to keep...
South Carolina Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Going Up, New Filing Requirements Take Effect
Jul 21 2016 // New requirements regarding the implementation of changes in workers’ compensation loss costs have been passed by the South Carolina Legislature, and the insurance department is reminding insurers to ensure they...
Judge Tells Washington Woman to Repay $25K in Workers’ Comp Scam
Jul 20 2016 // A Washington woman injured in a robbery at her workplace pleaded guilty this week to felony theft. Yurizan Cuevas, 33, of Federal Way, reportedly worked full time as a nanny while claiming she was too disabled to...
WorkCompCentral Founder DePaolo Remembered as ‘Innovative Thinker’
Jul 19 2016 // The founder of WorkCompCentral died on Sunday in a motorcycle crash, according to employees reporting on the website. David DePaolo, 56, was reportedly in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu Hills, Calif. in the...
Massachusetts Lowers Employer Assessment for Workers’ Compensation
Jul 19 2016 // The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA) reduced the assessment that private employers pay to the state on workers’ compensation policies to 5.6 percent of the policy premium for the new fiscal...
Workers’ Comp Line Achieves ‘Significant’ Profit in 2015: Fitch
Jul 18 2016 // The U.S. workers’ compensation insurance market achieved a “significant” underwriting profit in 2015, but trends call into question whether such a result can be repeated, Fitch Ratings concluded in a new...
Illinois Emergency Medical Service Provider Fined $290K for Workplace Hazards
Jul 14 2016 // Federal safety and health investigators have cited Altamont Ambulance Service Inc. in Fairview Heights, Ill., for workplace safety and health violations and find the company $290,100. The federal Occupational Safety and...
Oklahoma Labor Department: OSHA Penalties Rising Aug. 1
Jul 13 2016 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor is warning businesses in that state that civil penalty amounts assessed by federal safety regulators for workplace safety violations are going up beginning Aug. 1. The Oklahoma DOL says...
Texas Companies Fined $120K for Safety Violations, Workplace Hazards
Jul 13 2016 // Unsafe working conditions have landed combined fines of more than $120,000 for two companies operating in the Texas oil and gas sector. Exterran Energy Solutions LP and South Texas Specialty Welders LLC were cited by...
Massachusetts Man Indicted for ‘Working While Collecting’ Under Workers’ Comp
Jul 12 2016 // A Milford, Massachusetts man has been indicted on larceny and workers’ compensation fraud charges in connection with allegedly collecting more than $18,000 in disability benefits while he continued to work, according...
BrickStreet Buys Workers Compensation Business from Pennsylvania’s HM Insurance
Jul 11 2016 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance said it finalized an agreement to acquire the workers’ compensation block of business from Pittsburgh-based HM Insurance Group (HM), a Highmark company. The purchase involves...
Comma Doesn’t Get Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Scofflaw Off the Hook
Jul 11 2016 // A Massachusetts company has lost its argument that it should not have been prevented from participating on state or municipal contracts for three years due to its its failure to have workers’ compensation insurance...
Applied Underwriters’ Workers’ Comp Business Faulted by California Regulator
Jul 11 2016 // California’s insurance commissioner said in late June a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. insurance business evaded a state law designed to protect small businesses from unexpected workers’ compensation...
California Workers’ Comp is Biased Against Women, Suit States
Jul 8 2016 // California’s workers’ compensation system discriminates against women by judging benefits on the basis of stereotypes and ignoring harm done to women – such as refusing permanent benefits when a woman loses a...
Workers’ Comp Disability Guidelines Withdrawn from Guidelines.gov
Jul 7 2016 // The Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI) has withdrawn its Official Disability Guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, operated by the U.S....
