Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Council Touts Workers’ Comp Savings in New York
Jul 17 2018 // The Business Council of New York State Inc. has touted the newly approved 11.7 percent reduction in loss cost rates, which are the basis for setting workers’ compensation premiums for 2019, as being significant...
Workers’ Comp ‘Disruptor’ Launching in California for Injured Farm Employees
Jul 16 2018 // An insurtech startup says it will disrupt California’s workers’ compensation system with “technology-enabled triage and care coordination” for California Farm Management. ChronWell, a mobile...
Florida Man Gets 5 Years’ Probation for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 16 2018 // A Trinity, Fla., man has been sentenced to five years’ probation, with the first six months to be served on home detention, for making a false statement connected to his workers’ compensation benefits,...
Texas Extends Cut-Off Date for Use of Negotiated Experience Modifiers in Workers’ Comp
Jul 16 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance has approved a request to extend the use of negotiated experience modifiers in the state’s workers’ compensation system for another year. Without the change, under the NCCI...
3 New P/C Insurers OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
Jul 16 2018 // Three new property/casualty insurance companies have been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department reported. All three are based in Florida. Counting the recently accepted companies, 10 new...
Oklahoma High Court: Workers’ Comp Carriers, Self Insurers Eligible for Rebates
Jul 16 2018 // If a recent ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court remains unchanged, the state’s tax authority may end up having to pay millions of dollars in rebates to workers’ compensation carriers and companies that...
Digital Workers’ Comp Agency Pie Insurance Enters 3 More States
Jul 16 2018 // Digital agency Pie Insurance has begun selling its low-cost small business workers’ compensation insurance policies online in Colorado, Louisiana and Texas. That brings the total states for Pie to seven; in March it...
OSHA Warns Pennsylvania About Safety Hazards During Tornado Recovery
Jul 16 2018 // Following a tornado that caused millions of dollars of property damage in the Wilkes-Barre, Penn., area, the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is urging all involved in...
Texas Mutual Announces 2 Workers’ Comp Fraud Convictions
Jul 13 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that Marcos Ricoy of Harlingen, Texas and Enrique Colon of Deer Park, Texas, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of engaging in organized criminal activity involving...
The MEMIC Group Promotes Pitts to Associate Underwriter in New Hampshire
Jul 13 2018 // To support continued growth within the New Hampshire market, Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Douglass Pitts to associate underwriter. Before joining The...
Illinois Pallet Maker Fined $216K After Workers Sickened by Carbon Monoxide
Jul 12 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited an Illinois pallet manufacturer for exposing employees unsafe levels of carbon monoxide in the workplace. The company faces proposed penalties totaling $216,253. The U.S. Department of...
AF Group Drives into Commercial Auto with Fundamental Underwriters
Jul 11 2018 // Lansing, Michigan-based AF Group is branching out from its traditional base in workers’ compensation into the specialty commercial auto insurance niche, driven by a new operating company — Fundamental...
Texas Extends Use of Negotiated Experience Modifiers in Workers’ Comp
Jul 11 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance has approved a request to extend the use of negotiated experience modifiers in the state’s workers’ compensation system for another year. Without the change, under the NCCI...
California Orders Work Comp Insurers to Report Federal Income Tax Savings
Jul 9 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has issued an order directing every insurer licensed to write workers’ compensation insurance in the state must report their federal income tax savings annually through a...
Oklahoma High Court: Rebates Still Available to Workers’ Comp Carriers, Self Insurers
Jul 9 2018 // If a recent ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court remains unchanged, the state’s tax authority may end up having to pay millions of dollars in rebates to workers’ compensation carriers and companies that...
California OSHA Opens Third Probe into Tesla Factory
Jul 6 2018 // A California agency for occupational safety said on Thursday it opened a third investigation at Tesla Inc.’s factory in Fremont, California, following a complaint. The state’s Occupational Safety and Health...
3 New Property/Casualty Insurers OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
Jul 5 2018 // Three new property/casualty insurance companies have been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department reported. All three are based in Florida. Counting the recently accepted companies, 10 new...
CFO: Florida Workers’ Comp Carriers to Save $20M in Costs Next Year
Jul 5 2018 // Cost savings in two Florida funds paid into by workers’ compensation carriers are expected to equal a nearly $20 million reduction in expenses for insurers operating in the state next year, according to a statement...
Burand’s State of P/C Insurance Industry: How P/C Insurance is Becoming Less Valuable
Jul 4 2018 // Value is a relative term often specific to a given asset. For example, if the price of gold declines from $1,800 an ounce to $1,250 an ounce, as it has, then gold is less valuable. The price of property/casualty insurance...
Houston Pharmacist Gets 5 Years in Work Comp/Chiropractor Scheme
Jul 3 2018 // A Houston pharmacist must serve five years in federal prison and repay $5.3 million in a health care kickbacks scheme linked to a chiropractor. Nermin Awad El-Hadik, of Hope Pharmacy Inc., was sentenced June 29 in Austin....
