Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Employers Reminded that Feb. 1 Is Injury Report Posting Deadline
Jan 18 2019 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reminding employers they face a Feb. 1 deadline. That is the deadline for employers to post a copy of OSHA’s form 300A, which summarizes job-related injuries and...
N.Y. Workers’ Comp Board Launches Virtual Hearings Initiative
Jan 18 2019 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has launched a new tool that makes it easier for injured workers, attorneys and other participants to attend workers’ compensation hearings remotely. The...
Method Insurance Launches Workers’ Comp Program for High-Hazard Risks
Jan 18 2019 // Method Insurance Services has launched a specialty workers’ compensation program with Service American Indemnity Co. that focuses on an under-served market segment for challenging, high-hazard risks. The program will...
Normandy Insurance Expands Workers’ Comp Coverage to Texas
Jan 17 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Co. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance to small, mid-size, and large businesses in Texas. This marks the fourth major expansion by the...
North Carolina Businesses Without Workers’ Comp Coverage Fined $3.2M
Jan 17 2019 // The North Carolina Industrial Commission’s Compliance and Fraud Investigative Division collected more than $3.2 million in penalties and issued 289 criminal charges at the end of the first two quarters of Fiscal Year...
California Comp Insurers Won’t See Insurance Guarantee Assessment, a First in 20 Years
Jan 14 2019 // California worker’s compensation insurers and their customers are getting a bit of a break this year. The California Insurance Guarantee Association won’t be collecting its annual assessment on 2019...
R&Q Announces Completion of Two Transactions
Jan 14 2019 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q) has completed a transaction to assume the Workers’ Compensation liabilities of a Vermont based self-insurer by R&Q’s wholly owned carrier, Accredited...
Insurers SUNZ, Cimmaron to Offer Standalone Workers’ Comp Program to PEOs
Jan 11 2019 // SUNZ Insurance Solutions, LLC has formed a partnership with Cimarron Insurance Co. to utilize Cimarron’s Cover One and Cover Two workers’ compensation products. The new partnership provides workers’...
Different Rates of Opioid Prescriptions Linked to Worker, Employer, Injury Traits
Jan 11 2019 // Injured workers in mining and construction, those in rural counties or those who suffer fractures, carpal tunnel and neurologic spine pain are among those more likely to receive prescriptions for opioids than workers in...
How Commercial Insurance Rates Changed in Q4 and 2018: IVANS
Jan 11 2019 // Renewal premium rates for nearly all major commercial insurance lines increased in the fourth quarter of last year with the exception of workers’ compensation where the average rate dropped and remained negative. The...
Workers’ Comp Relativities Are Obsolete, TDI Says
Jan 11 2019 // In its 2018 Biennial Report, the Texas Department of Insurance has recommended that lawmakers delete from state statute references to classification relativities as an alternative basis for workers’ compensation...
Beecher Carlson Taps ACM to Handle Claims for National Client
Jan 7 2019 // San Diego, CA, January 7, 2019 – DS Services of America, in partnership with their broker Beecher Carlson, recently selected American Claims Management (ACM) to handle claims management in a portion of the states in...
Western Region Could See Action on Disaster Mitigation, Independent Contractors, Workers’ Comp
Jan 7 2019 // Most eyeballs were on California during the midterm elections in November, with polar opposite candidates facing off in the race for governor as well as the office of insurance commissioner. As in most years, Democrats...
Southeast Officials Focus on Curbing Fraud, Rising Auto Rates, Flood Insurance, and Distracted Driving
Jan 7 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
2018 Agents of the Year
Jan 7 2019 // Jacob Barzivand Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, California Jacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable...
Missouri Insurance Department Backs 3.5% Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Jan 4 2019 // The Missouri Department of Insurance in December recommended a 3.5 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2019. This marks the fifth year in a row that average workers’ compensation...
Florida Roofer Arrested for Stealing Nearly $50K from Homeowners, Insurance Fraud
Jan 3 2019 // A Florida roofing company owner was arrested last month after allegedly attempting to defraud multiple homeowners out of more than $49,000 and working without workers’ compensation insurance, according to a statement...
Kentucky Gov Appoints Collins to State Workers’ Comp Funding Commission
Jan 2 2019 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Brenda Collins as a member of the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission. Collins, of Alvaton, is a benefits distributor for Constellium-UACJ. She will represent...
‘Barista Wrist’ Among Restaurant Industry’s Highest Lost Time Injuries
Dec 28 2018 // Restaurant workers miss about a month from work from a variety of injuries, on average, but for coffee shop workers, wrist injuries are the biggest danger. In fact, Barista Wrist, can keep café workers sidelined for more...
Death in the Oilfields: Boom Brings Mounting Risk of Death, Injuries
Dec 28 2018 // Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well. And so, when...
