Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Agents Need to Know: Texas Workers’ Comp E-Mods Changing
Jun 11 2015 // The number 1.00 means different things to different people. In baseball, 1.00 represents a perfect batting average. But in college, a 1.00 grade point average is about as bad as it gets. In workers’ compensation, a...
South Carolina Jumps Aboard Workers’ Comp Alternative Bandwagon
Jun 10 2015 // A South Carolina lawmaker has introduced workers’ compensation option legislation that would allow qualified businesses in the state to offer their own injury benefit plan to employees. The state is the second one...
South Dakota Prankster Entitled to Workers’ Comp: Court
Jun 9 2015 // The South Dakota Supreme Court says a man who broke his ankle running away from a co-worker on whom he had played a prank at a construction site is entitled to workers’ compensation. In Jason Petrik v. JJ Concrete,...
Illinois House OKs Workers’ Comp Reform
Jun 8 2015 // Illinois House Democrats came back to Springfield carrying what they called an olive branch to Gov. Bruce Rauner on business reform. However, Republicans derided the Democrats’ ideas on employment insurance for...
Violations by Companies And Navy Led to Hawaii Worker Deaths, Says OSHA
Jun 8 2015 // A federal agency says workplace safety violations led to the deaths of two workers at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii last December. Hawaii News Now reported that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines...
Florida Division of Insurance Fraud Makes Arrests in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Jun 3 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) has arrested Juan C. Garcia, owner of Construction Forever LLC, for his involvement in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud...
Former Mass. Jail Officer Sentenced for Fraudulently Collecting Benefits
Jun 1 2015 // Massachusetts authorities announced that a former Suffolk County correctional officer has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for fraudulently collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation,...
Tennessee Workers Comp Opt-Out Legislation Revised, Ready for Next Session
Jun 1 2015 // Legislation seeking to provide Tennessee employers with an option to the current workers’ compensation system has been amended and deferred to the next legislative session. State Sen. Mark Green, who authored the...
California Court Says Staffing Agencies Can’t Self-Insure Workers’ Comp
Jun 1 2015 // A California Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s decision to exclude temporary staffing agencies from self-insuring for workers’ compensation, a ruling that upholds one of the provisions in the...
Slow Growth in Texas Workers’ Comp Claims: WCRI
Jun 1 2015 // Workers’ compensation claims costs in Texas have grown relatively slowly over a five-year period, according to a recent Workers Compensation Research Institute study of 17 states. The total average cost per claim for...
WCRI: North Carolina Workers’ Comp Indemnity Benefits Higher than Most States
Jun 1 2015 // North Carolina’s workers’ compensation system had the highest indemnity benefits per claim of 17 states in a recent Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) study, which serves as a baseline to observe...
Turbulence Ahead
Jun 1 2015 // The workers’ compensation industry fared well in 2014. Net written premium for workers’ compensation continued its upward trend, with 2014 marking the fourth consecutive year of premium increases. According to...
NCCI State of the Line Report Reveals Positive Outlook for Workers’ Compensation Market
Jun 1 2015 // The workers’ compensation industry had a pretty good 2014 in which its combined ratio improved for the third consecutive year, premium grew for the fourth consecutive year, and claim frequency declined about two...
‘On-Tap,’ Temporary Employees Challenging Workers’ Comp: Hartwig
Jun 1 2015 // The workers’ compensation industry must contend with a fast-growing on-demand economy where jobs are filled via apps and more employees are temporary contractors. “Technology is changing how we think about...
Workers’ Comp Costs Relatively Low in Michigan: Study
May 29 2015 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Michigan were lower than that of the typical state in a comparison of 17 states by the the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The WCRI study, CompScope Benchmarks...
Utah Man on Hook for $97K for Montana Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 29 2015 // A man who suffered a knee injury while working at the Montana State Prison in 2000 has acknowledged defrauding the state workers’ compensation fund by collecting disability benefits while running a construction...
N.H. Budget Writers Uphold Changes to Public Risk Pool Oversight
May 29 2015 // The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office plans to continue fighting a proposal in the Senate’s budget that takes away its authority to monitor the state’s public risk pools. The New Hampshire Senate...
Effort to Expand Police Mental Health Coverage Progresses in Connecticut
May 26 2015 // A long-running effort in Connecticut to extend workers’ compensation benefits to police officers who receive mental health injuries on the job cleared a key hurdle on May 22 after years of defeat in the General...
NBIS Adds Workers’ Comp Coverage for Heavy Construction Industries
May 26 2015 // NationsBuilders Insurance Services, Inc. (NBIS), a provider of specialty construction insurance and a portfolio company of SunTx Capital Partners, has added workers’ compensation coverage from an A+ A.M. Best rated...
N.H. Senate Amendment Would Change Who Polices Public Risk Pools
May 26 2015 // The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office could lose its ability to oversee a public risk pool it’s had issues with for years, if a last-minute amendment to the state Senate budget remains in place. The New...
