Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Employers Face Increase In COVID-19 Wrongful Death Lawsuits
Aug 27 2020 // As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise, so too does the number of lawsuits filed against employers. Recently, an increasing number of families of employees who died from COVID-19 have asserted wrongful death actions...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau Submits Premium Rate Filing
Aug 26 2020 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted its Jan. 1, 2021 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory pure premium rates that are on...
Venture-backed Insurtech Foresight Poised to Shake Up Workers Compensation
Aug 25 2020 // Foresight offers an innovative workers’ compensation program for safety-critical verticals San Francisco, CA, August 18, 2020 – Foresight recently announced its technology-first workers’ compensation...
Federal Panel Backs Workers’ Comp for Washington State Hanford Employees
Aug 21 2020 // A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Washington has a right to create laws giving employees of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation easier access to health benefits if they become ill at work. The decision by a...
Limitations Period for Reimbursement Claims Does Not Apply in Industrial Accident Case
Aug 20 2020 // Reimbursement claims made against the town of Adams, Mass., by the town’s workers’ compensation insurer are not subject to the two-year statute of limitations established in a Department of Industrial Accidents...
Report: COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims on The Rise in California
Aug 19 2020 // The number of California workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 continues to climb, according to a new report compiled by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. Data from the Division of...
OSHA Defends Inspector Calling Ahead to Pennsylvania Meat Plant Before Visiting
Aug 17 2020 // A federal safety inspector tipped off a coronavirus-tainted Pennsylvania meatpacking plant before visiting the next day — then failed to issue a citation, according to testimony in a lawsuit accusing the agency of...
Michigan’s Accident Fund Insurance Grants $3.5M in Early Workers’ Comp Dividends
Aug 13 2020 // Lansing, Michigan-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, a national provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has granted $3.5 million in early dividend payments to policyholder groups that achieved...
Louisiana’s LUBA Workers’ Comp Adds Tucker as VP, Sales Manager
Aug 13 2020 // Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based workers’ compensation insurance company, LUBA Workers’ Comp, has hired David Tucker as vice president and sales manager. Tucker has more than 10 years of service in the insurance...
California Workers’ Comp Committee OKs 2021 Pure Premium Filing
Aug 12 2020 // The governing committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Jan. 1, 2021 advisory pure premium rate filing to the California...
California Construction Worker Arraigned for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 11 2020 // Meliton Hernandez Martinez Jr., 23, was arraigned today at the Merced County Superior Court in California on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report, after...
COVID-19 a Growing Share of Shrinking Work Comp Claims in 2 States
Aug 11 2020 // COVID-19 has become a large chunk of a dwindling number of workers’ compensation claims in Florida and California, limited data shows. The number of COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims reported in California...
McConnell’s Coronavirus Liability Shield Could Be Bargaining Chip in Relief Negotiations
Aug 11 2020 // Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence that legal liability protections for businesses, schools and colleges be included in any new coronavirus relief bill is approaching a moment of reckoning. Warning...
Berkshire Insurance Units Hold Their Own While Pandemic Slams Other Buffett Firms
Aug 10 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had a tough second quarter with the pandemic taking a toll on most of its operating businesses including Precision Castparts aircraft parts, the BNSF railroad, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Kraft...
Stop-Work Order Issued at Miami Construction Project After 6 Workers Injured
Aug 10 2020 // Construction was halted Thursday at a Miami construction site where six workers were hurt when a load of rebar fell from a crane, officials said. A stop-work order was issued for the Brickell 57-floor property, which is a...
Northern California Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud and ID Theft
Aug 10 2020 // Marlene Cavalcanti, 40, has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of insurance fraud and identity theft after falsifying documents to receive an additional $10,590 on her workers’ compensation claim. Cavalcanti,...
6 Miami Construction Workers Injured in Crane Accident
Aug 7 2020 // Six construction workers were injured Wednesday when a large piece of steel rebar fell from a crane and impaled two workers at a Miami construction site. Emergency crews had to cut through the steel to free some of the...
Pie Workers’ Comp ‘Appetite Checker’ Slices Agents’ Wait Time on Risk Eligibility
Aug 5 2020 // Pie Insurance, a technology-driven workers’ compensation provider for small businesses, has a new portal that it says makes it easier for agents to submit their workers’ compensation accounts and track their...
AIG’s Coronavirus Hits Include Travel, Workers’ Comp, Property, Trade Credit Lines
Aug 5 2020 // Insurer American International Group Inc. racked up $730 million in COVID-19-related losses during the first half of the year, its chief executive officer said on Tuesday. The pandemic is a “formidable and ongoing...
N.Y. Manufacturer Fined, Citations Upheld for Falsely Claiming Violations Corrected
Aug 4 2020 // An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld citations and penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
