Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OSHA Says Iowa Restaurants Owed Employees $100K in Wages
Mar 4 2016 // A U.S. Labor Department initiative has found that a handful of Ames, Iowa, restaurants violated federal labor standards and owed thousands of dollars to workers. Department officials announced that Ames employers owed...
Massachusetts Business Owner Indicted on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 4 2016 // Authorities said a Wilmington, Massachusetts man has been indicted in connection with allegedly failing to accurately report the nature of his company’s work in order to avoid $120,000 in insurance...
Massachusetts Top Court Rules on Damages for Injured Workers
Mar 4 2016 // Massachusetts’ highest court recently ruled in a case of first impression that a workers’ compensation insurer is not entitled to a lien on the money awarded to claimants for pain and suffering. This ruling...
Texas Mutual, VFIS Award Over $150K to Emergency Service Organizations
Mar 3 2016 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., a policyholder-owned company, and VFIS of Texas awarded more than $150,000 to 71 non-profit emergency service organizations across Texas through the...
Woods Named Executive Director of New York Workers’ Compensation Board
Mar 3 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced the appointment of Mary Beth Woods as executive director of the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board, where she had been acting director. Woods succeeds Mark Wade who...
Allianz Launches Workers’ Comp Unit for Aviation Risks
Mar 2 2016 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has entered into an agreement with the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) through which it has established a new aviation workers’ compensation department....
Delaware Regulators Recovered $1.9M for Policyholders in 2015
Mar 1 2016 // The Delaware Department of Insurance said the department last year recovered more than $1.9 million for policyholders, and helped business owners save nearly $9.3 million in workers’ compensation insurance costs. The...
Oklahoma’s Workers’ Comp Opt-Out Act Ruled Unconstitutional
Feb 29 2016 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission has determined that the opt-out portion of the state’s 2013 workers’ compensation statute is unconstitutional. Ruling on an appeal under the provisions of the...
Nevada Insurance Commissioner Approves Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Feb 29 2016 // Acting Nevada Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Parks approved a filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average decrease of 5.5 percent for Nevada workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss...
Vermont Fines Continental Indemnity for Workers’ Comp Premium Overcharges
Feb 29 2016 // Vermont Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Susan L. Donegan announced on Feb. 26 that Continental Indemnity Co., a subsidiary of Applied Underwriters Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Company, has paid Vermont...
WCRI Report Examines Trends in New York Workers’ Comp System
Feb 26 2016 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) has published its eighth annual report examining the trends in the performance of the New York workers’ compensation system following reforms enacted in 2007. WCRI...
Wyoming Man Sentenced to Probation For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 23 2016 // A Sheridan, Wyo. man accused of collecting disability payments while working for a tree service company has entered a no contest plea to one count of workers’ compensation fraud. The Sheridan Press reported that...
Feds Want Circus Operator Fined for Fatal Tent Collapse in N.H.
Feb 22 2016 // Federal safety officials have proposed more than $33,000 in fines against a Florida-based circus operator for a tent collapse that killed two people and injured dozens in New Hampshire. Robert Young, 41, and his 6-year-old...
New Mexico’s High Court Will Hear Workers’ Comp Case
Feb 22 2016 // The New Mexico Supreme Court plans to review a lower court ruling that cleared the way for farm and ranch laborers across the state to receive workers’ compensation benefits. The justices issued a brief order...
Texas Extends Reporting Period for Workers’ Comp Non-Subscriber Status
Feb 22 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced a grace period for employers without workers’ compensation insurance coverage or that terminated their coverage —...
Future of Tennessee Workers’ Comp Option in Question Amid Lawmaker Scandal
Feb 22 2016 // Legislation to create a workers’ compensation alternative in Tennessee is already facing serious setbacks in the new legislative session, despite being amended in 2015 and refiled in 2016. An emerging scandal...
California Hospital Workers’ Comp Report Shows Claim Severity on Rise
Feb 22 2016 // California workers’ compensation claim severity continues to increase, while claims frequency declines, according a newly released report. The latest California hospital report benchmarking workers’ comp costs...
Unlicensed Georgia Agent Arrested for Stealing Premiums From Florida Seniors
Feb 19 2016 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), which operates under the direction of Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, announced the arrest of William David Rodeffer III of Folkston, Ga. Rodeffer allegedly accepted...
Report: Most California Workers’ Comp Medical Review Decisions Upheld
Feb 18 2016 // An examination of California workers’ compensation independent medical review decisions shows roughly nine-in-10 of disputed medical service requests reviewed by an IMR physician agree with the utilization review...
Pennsylvania OKs Average Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease of 0.9%
Feb 12 2016 // The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB) said the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved PCRB’s filing which calls for an overall average workers’ compensation loss cost decrease of 0.90...
