Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Releases App to Help Injured Workers File Comp Claims
Oct 8 2020 // Tennesseans have a new tool to help them file workers’ compensation claims – an app that lets them fill out key forms by speaking into a smartphone. It was developed after a study found that filling out the...
The MEMIC Group Appoints Nash as Underwriter for Carolinas
Oct 7 2020 // Sealy Nash of Charlotte, N.C. has been appointed as a senior production underwriter at The MEMIC Group, a specialty workers’ compensation insurance company serving the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine. She will...
California Workers’ Comp Premium for First Two Quarters of 2020 Down 11%
Oct 5 2020 // Written workers’ compensation premium in California for the first two quarters of 2020 was 11% below that for the first two quarters of 2019, according to a new report out. The Worker’s Compensation Insurance...
COVID-19: No One Avoids the Impact
Oct 5 2020 // Workers’ Compensation Premiums Down 8% in First Half of 2020 Prior to discussing the results of our review of aggregate workers’ compensation insurance written in the U.S. during the first half of 2020 versus...
Steep Drop in California Workers’ Comp IMRs in First Half of 2020
Oct 5 2020 // The number of independent medical reviews used to resolve California workers’ compensation medical disputes fell sharply in the first half of 2020 as the pandemic took a toll on the state’s economy with...
California Workers’ Comp Bills Signed into Law
Oct 2 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a handful of bills related to workers’ compensation, including bills dealing with COVID-19 and reporting the virus in the workplace. The Legislature recessed for the year on Aug....
Next Insurance Expands Workers’ Compensation to 24 Additional States
Oct 2 2020 // Next Insurance, a digital insurtech company focused on small business insurance, has expanded its workers’ compensation offering to 24 additional states, bringing the total number of states it offers coverage in to...
California Nursery Worker Arraigned for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 2 2020 // Fernando Torres Garcia, 46, self-surrendered and was arraigned at the Kern County Superior Court in California this week on nearly a dozen felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting an injury in order...
Judges Dismisses $18M in Liens Filed by California Medical Provider Convicted of Fraud
Oct 1 2020 // An administrative law judge in California has dismissed liens valued at $18 million filed by convicted medical provider Michael E. Barri, bringing to a close one of the earliest cases aimed at combatting fraud in...
Next Insurance Adds 24 States to Its Workers’ Compensation Market Map
Oct 1 2020 // Next Insurance has expanded its workers’ compensation offering into 24 additional states, including Arizona, Connecticut, South Carolina, Indiana and Virginia. The digital small business insurer said that the...
Cal/OSHA Issues Citations to Grocery Stores for COVID-19 Violations
Sep 30 2020 // Cal/OSHA has cited five grocery stores in Southern California for failing to protect their employees from COVID-19. The retailers were cited for various health and safety violations, including some classified as serious,...
Texas Workers’ Comp Networks Have Lower Medical Costs Than Non-Networks
Sep 30 2020 // Texas workers’ compensation claims handled through health care networks have lower medical costs than those managed outside networks, a state report finds. The Texas Department of Insurance has published its 2020...
Worker’s Compensation Rates to Decrease in Idaho for 2021
Sep 29 2020 // A proposal for a 1.7% overall rate decrease to Idaho workers’ compensation insurance, effective Jan. 1, 2021, has been approved by the Idaho Department of Insurance. The proposed rate change is recommended by the...
Meat Plant Workers Being Denied Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19: Reuters
Sep 29 2020 // Saul Sanchez died in April, one of six workers with fatal COVID-19 infections at meatpacker JBS USA’s slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, the site of one of the earliest and deadliest coronavirus outbreaks at a U.S....
Report: COVID-19 Accounts for 1-in-9 California Workers’ Comp Claims in 2020
Sep 28 2020 // The California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claim count continued to grow in August, albeit at a much slower rate than in July, with new data showing that as of Sept. 21, the state had recorded 5,130 COVID-19...
New York Drywall Installer Arrested for Failing to Provide Workers’ Comp Insurance
Sep 25 2020 // New York State Inspector General Letizia Tagliafierro has announced the arrest of a capital region area drywall installer who allegedly failed to provide legally required workers’ compensation insurance to his...
Florida OKs Emergency Adjusters, Brings In Fraud Strike Teams for Sally Recovery
Sep 23 2020 // The Florida Department of Financial Services has deployed its Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFAST) to the Florida Panhandle, as well as activated the state’s emergency adjuster license system to assist with...
California Farm Worker Arraigned for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 22 2020 // Eduardo Medina Ruelas, 46, of Sanger, Calif., was arraigned this week on multiple counts of felony insurance fraud after allegedly defrauding his employer and RISICO Claims Management Co. to collect $38,000 in...
Kansas Supreme Court Weighs Guidelines for Compensating Injured Workers
Sep 21 2020 // The Kansas Supreme Court has waded into the fray over obscure medical guidelines that will determine how much money workers injured on the job can collect. Justices on Sept. 17 heard legal arguments on Zoom over which...
California Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Law Protecting Workers from Virus
Sep 21 2020 // California companies must warn their workers of any potential exposure to the coronavirus and must pay their employees workers compensation benefits if they get sick with the disease under two laws that Gov. Gavin Newsom...
