Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Committee Chair Wants More Study on PTSD Workers’ Comp Bill
Jan 27 2022 // Supporters spoke passionately Wednesday about the need for workers’ compensation insurance to cover mental health treatment for first responders, but the chair of a Georgia House committee decided to send the bill to...
OSHA Cites Connecticut Manufacturer for 48 Safety Violations After Fatality
Jan 25 2022 // After an employee of a Watertown, Connecticut metal fabrication company was electrocuted on July 14, 2021 while repairing a portable water heater, an inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...
OSHA Investigating Maine Case of Man Found Carrying Own Severed Arm
Jan 25 2022 // A man who stumbled along a street while carrying his own severed arm was saved by two public workers who saw him and happened to be trained in the use of tourniquets, authorities in Maine said. “It had to be divine...
Georgia Governor Wants to Pay off $150 Million State Workers’ Comp Backlog
Jan 24 2022 // Thanks to an unexpectedly large state budget surplus for 2021, Georgia’s governor wants to pay off a $150 million backlog of workers’ compensation benefits due to state employees. Gov. Brian Kemp’s budget...
Mississippi Supreme Court Finds Assault at Job Covered by Workers’ Comp
Jan 21 2022 // A man gets assaulted at work by two co-workers. Is the man’s recourse for his injuries limited only to the exclusive remedy of the workers’ compensation system? The Mississippi Supreme Court this month said,...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Virus Claims Spiked During December Surge
Jan 19 2022 // California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claim volume continues to track with the state’s fluctuating infection trends, as the latest monthly count of COVID workers’ comp claims jumped 172% in December...
Louisiana’s Stonetrust Goes Live with Insurity Workers’ Comp Solution
Jan 14 2022 // Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, has announced that workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Company has successfully implemented...
What the Supreme Court Justices Said in Blocking OSHA’s COVID-19 Workplace Rule
Jan 14 2022 // The Supreme Court yesterday blocked the Biden Administration from implementing an order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to require COVID-19 vaccines or testing and masks for their employees. In National...
Supreme Court Halts OSHA Vaccine/Test Mandate; Allows Rule on Health Workers
Jan 13 2022 // A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s push to get more people vaccinated amid a Covid-19 surge, rejecting an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that would have...
Connecticut Approves 14.1% Workers’ Compensation Pure Premium Reduction
Jan 13 2022 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved a filing with decreases of 14.1% to workers’ compensation pure premium lost costs, and an 8.2% reduction in assigned risk rates. The decreases, effective January 1,...
One80 Acquires Workers’ Compensation Wholesaler PMC in Massachusetts
Jan 12 2022 // Specialty insurance broker One80 Intermediaries reported it has acquired PMC Insurance Group, a workers’ compensation wholesale broker and program manager based in Bedford, Mass. Terms of the deal were not...
Supreme Court Conservatives Question OSHA Business Vaccine Rule
Jan 10 2022 // Fully vaccinated and mostly masked, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical Friday of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s...
OSHA, Mexican Consulate Renew Alliance Protecting Workers in Kansas, Missouri
Jan 6 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Consulate General of Mexico in Kansas City have renewed an alliance – first signed in 2013 – to continue their collaborative...
Flurry of Briefs Filed Supporting, Opposing OSHA COVID-19 ETS in U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 6 2022 // With the January 7, 2022, oral argument over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Vaccine or Test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in the U.S. Supreme Court fast-approaching, many amici curiae...
People Moves: Alliant Names Fraser Senior VP; California Workers’ Comp Institute Makes Widener-Brightwell General Counsel
Jan 3 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services named James Fraser senior vice president in its employee benefits team in Denver, Colorado. Fraser will provide employee benefits solutions for a diverse base of regional and national...
Massachusetts Care Facility Employers Fail to Comply With OSHA Subpoena
Dec 29 2021 // An October 21, 2021, decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered UHS of Fuller Inc. and UHS of Delaware Inc. to pay the U.S. Department of Labor $30, 515.63 in attorneys’ fees after...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease 10.5% in 2022
Dec 29 2021 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved a 10.5% reduction in workers’ compensation rates for 2022. The decrease is set to take effect May 1, 2022. Louisiana has seen workers’ compensation...
Minimum Wage, OT And Workers’ Comp Premium Changes in Washington Starting in 2022
Dec 28 2021 // Changes in Washington’s minimum wage, overtime for white-collar professionals, overtime for agricultural workers, and workers’ compensation premiums are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2022. The Washington State...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Quarterly Written Premium Lowest Since 2012
Dec 21 2021 // Written premium for 2020 was $1.9 billion, or 12%, below 2019, and was at its lowest since 2012, a new report out from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau shows. WCIRB’s quarterly experience...
OSHA Sets Dates for Vaccine Mandate Penalties
Dec 19 2021 // The Occupational Health and Safety Administration said Saturday that it would not issue citations tied to its coronavirus vaccination mandate before Jan. 10, so that companies have time to adjust to and implement the...
