Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Recycling Facility Faces Fine of $260K Over OSHA Violations
Apr 29 2022 // A workplace safety investigation following a worker’s fatal crushing injuries at a St. Louis, Missouri recycling facility on Oct. 26, 2021, alleges the company failed to erect guards or barriers to prevent workers...
TPA’s Quick Denials of First Responders’ Workers’ Comp Claims Draw Penalty
Apr 29 2022 // A workers’ compensation insurer must pay $100,000 under an agreement with Vermont state regulators because its claims administrator gave short shrift to claims for post-traumatic stress disorder and other...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Recognizes Beverage Distributor
Apr 27 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recognized Tyler Beverages with the Lone Star Safety Program Award for its exemplary workplace health and safety programs and low rates of...
Massachusetts Approves 3.5% Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease
Apr 26 2022 // The state’s insurance commissioner has approved an overall average decrease of 3.46% in workers’ compensation rates starting July 1, 2022 for Massachusetts businesses. Massachusetts businesses will save...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Seeks Comments on Income Benefits Form
Apr 25 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on a proposed new form: DWC Form-033, Request to Reduce Income Benefits Due to Contribution. Adopting this form...
OSHA Cites Roofing Firm as ‘Severe Violator’ of Worker Safety Rules
Apr 22 2022 // A Maine roofing and siding contractor willfully exposed its employees to fall hazards at a Hampden, Maine residential construction site on multiple occasions during the same inspection, according to the federal...
Illinois Contractor Faces $360,000 in Penalties Over OSHA Violations
Apr 21 2022 // A Waukegan, Illinois contractor – with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations – was cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
California Workers’ Comp Committee OKs 7.6% Pure Premium Filing
Apr 20 2022 // The governing committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California authorized the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2022 pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner that is on...
Department of Labor Eyeing Arizona OSHA Plan After ‘Pattern of Failures’
Apr 20 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona’s State OSHA plan, which the department says is in response to nearly a long “pattern of failures” to...
California Contractor Arraigned for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 18 2022 // Adan Deniz, 43, a contractor from Santa Clarita, California, was arraigned on 21 felony counts of forgery, theft by false pretense, and workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly creating fraudulent...
Wisconsin Manufacturer Cited After Worker Injured by Machine
Apr 14 2022 // An employee working at Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.’s aluminum extrusion facility in Weston, Wisconsin was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a puller machine while trying to unjam a piece of...
California Contractor Arraigned for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 11 2022 // Adan Deniz, 43, a contractor from Santa Clarita, California, was arraigned today on 21 felony counts of forgery, theft by false pretense, and workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly creating fraudulent...
Pennsylvania Approves 6.25% Workers’ Compensation Cost Cut
Apr 7 2022 // Workers’ compensation costs for employers in Pennsylvania are going down for the sixth straight year. Acting Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys approved a loss-cost filing, including a 6.25% reduction in loss...
Arkansas Supreme Court Rules for Appellant in Elapsed Time Workers’ Comp Case
Apr 5 2022 // The Supreme Court of Arkansas has reversed and remanded a decision in an appeal of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s denial of a claim for additional medical benefits of an appellant over a...
Louisiana Doctor Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud Conspiracy
Apr 4 2022 // An Alexandria, Louisiana physician pleaded guilty to having conspired to violate three different federal statutes in connection with a scheme to defraud both federal and private workers’ compensation insurers. U.S....
Markets/Coverages: Falvey’s Cyber Cover for Cargo; PHLY’s New Commercial Line; CoverEase’s Workers’ Comp; Mile Auto’s Telematics
Mar 28 2022 // Falvey Cargo Underwriting Offers Cyber for Cargo Falvey Cargo Underwriting announced its latest product offering, Cyber for Cargo, to help address broad cyber exclusions that apply to nearly all cargo insurance...
Report: Sharp Drop in California Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Reviews
Mar 28 2022 // A report from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute on the state’s independent medical review process used to resolve workers’ comp medical disputes shows the number of IMR decision letters hit...
The National Alliance Launches NEW Self-Paced Courses: Intro to Commercial/Personal Lines, Flood, Ethics, Workers Compensation
Mar 24 2022 // Austin, TX., March 24, 2022 – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has launched five self-paced insurance license renewal and introductory classes on the topics of Ethics, NFIP Flood Exposures,...
People Moves: Thaler to Chair California Workers’ Comp Institute Board; Belk, Brady, Hansen, Mathis, Steiner, Zender on Executive Committee
Mar 21 2022 // Sharon Thaler, national director of workers’ compensation field underwriting operations at AF Group/CompWest, has been elected to chair the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board for 2022. Thaler was...
Medical Access in California Workers’ Compensation Examined
Mar 21 2022 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows injured worker access to medical care for initial treatment was relatively consistent between 2010 and 2020. CWCI used data from more than 1.5 million job...
