Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
WCRI: Consolidation of Health Care Driving Up Prices in Work Comp
Mar 21 2023 // Consolidation of physician services into larger groups owned by hospitals and health care systems is driving up the cost of care in workers’ compensation, according to a new study by the Workers’ Compensation...
California Workers’ Comp Committee to Discuss Insurer Experience
Mar 16 2023 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Actuarial Committee is set to talk about insurer experience, and the impact of the economic slowdown on the pure premium. The committee is set...
Georgia Business Owner Sentenced in $54M California Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 13 2023 // Wesley Owens, 54, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Beau Wilson, 38, also of Atlanta, pleaded no contest to multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and conspiracy in Los Angeles Superior Court over charges filed after a...
OSHA Cites Long Island Thermometer Maker Over Mercury Exposure in Workplace
Mar 10 2023 // Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited a New York thermometer manufacturer for overexposing its employees to mercury at its West Babylon facility. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspectors...
Georgia House Votes to Raise Workers’ Comp Benefits, Still Lower than Other States
Mar 2 2023 // The Georgia House of Representatives voted this week to raise the maximum workers’ compensation benefit amounts and to increase the maximum payout to dependent spouses. House Bill 480, sponsored by Rep. Lehman...
California Workers’ Comp Research Keys on State’s Massive Healthcare Industry
Mar 2 2023 // A report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California that examines the state’s healthcare system shows the industry also accounted for the highest share of indemnity COVID-19 claims...
New Hampshire Roofing Contractor Faces $234K in OSHA Penalties
Mar 1 2023 // Federal workplace safety inspectors have again cited a Derry, New Hampshire contractor for not protecting their employees against potentially lethal falls, this time at worksites in Merrimack and Salem. The Occupational...
Walmart Loses Challenge to OSHA Finding in Injury at New York Warehouse
Feb 28 2023 // Walmart Inc. violated federal workplace safety standards at its warehouse in Johnstown, New York, when it failed to prevent stored merchandise from falling onto – and seriously injuring – an employee in 2017, a federal...
Research Shows Low-Volume/High-Cost Meds in California Workers’ Comp
Feb 28 2023 // New research on low-volume/high-cost drugs used to treat injured workers in California spotlights a handful of anti-inflammatory and anticonvulsant medications that have become significant cost drivers despite accounting...
When ‘Preparing for Work’ Falls Under Virginia Workers’ Compensation
Feb 23 2023 // An employee who was injured while scraping ice off his company-owned truck parked at his home is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission has ruled, reversing a deputy...
Florida Workers’ Comp Revises Wording on Payment to Surgical Centers
Feb 22 2023 // The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has made a tweak to its proposed reimbursement manual for ambulatory surgical centers. The change, posted after a Jan. 12 hearing on the issue, would clarify the wording...
Washington Man Ordered to Repay $127K in Workers’ Comp Scam
Feb 20 2023 // A Washington contractor who claimed he was too injured to work despite reportedly running his own construction company was ordered to pay back the state more than $127,000. Daniel Joseph Lesieur, of Washougal, pleaded...
New Jersey Supreme Court Remands Workers’ Compensation Fraud Case for Allocation of Fault
Feb 16 2023 // There will be a jury retrial on allocation of liability in a New Jersey workers’ compensation premium fraud case won by Liberty Insurance Corp. against a construction firm. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled...
OSHA Cites Tree Services Firm Over 17-Year Old Worker Killed in Woodchipper
Feb 15 2023 // On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had died after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near...
Department of Labor Withdrawing Proposal to Revoke Approval of Arizona’s OSHA Plan
Feb 14 2023 // The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to withdraw a proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona’s for occupational safety and...
Philadelphia Eagles Team Loses to Ex-Player in Workers’ Compensation Fight
Feb 10 2023 // The National Football League’s Philadelphia Eagles football team has failed to score a victory in a disability case involving former linebacker Emmanuel Acho who suffered thumb injuries in 2015 while with the...
Swift Named VP at ATF Medical, a Workers’ Comp Rehab Equipment Supplier
Feb 9 2023 // Brendan Swift, recently with Elevance Health, has been named vice president for payer partnerships and marketing with ATF Medical, a national provider of rehabilitation equipment and housing solutions for the...
Few California Workers’ Comp Treatment Request Denials Overturned
Feb 8 2023 // Few medical treatment denials in California workers’ compensation were overturned last year, a review released on Wednesday shows. The California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted an annual report on the...
North Dakota Governor Signs Law Expanding Workers’ Comp for Police Officers, Firefighters
Feb 8 2023 // Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill this week that will expand workers’ compensation coverage for full-time firefighters and law enforcement officers. Currently, a full-time firefighter or law enforcement officer who is...
Rogner, Helwig Named to Workers’ Comp Charity Board in Florida
Feb 8 2023 // Kids’ Chance, a charity organization established by the the workers’ compensation industry, has named new board members for its Florida operation. The all-volunteer Kids’ Chance of Florida, like sister...
