Most Popular Workers' Compensation Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant
Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...
#2 Employee Who Was Trapped in Elevator Denied Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Jun 13 2024 // A health insurance company employee who was trapped in an elevator for about 30 minutes has been denied workers’ compensation benefits. The employee did not suffer any physical injury while she was trapped in the...
#3 Pennsylvania’s 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Cut Takes Effect in April
Feb 5 2024 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down for employers beginning April 1. Insurance Commissioner Mike Humphreys on January 23 approved an overall decrease in loss costs of -7.88%, more than...
#4 California Chiropractor Sentenced to 54 Years for $150M Workers’ Comp Scheme
Apr 16 2024 // A former chiropractor was sentenced to 54 years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in fines for his role in orchestrating a massive workers’ compensation fraud scheme totaling $150...
#5 Medical Biller Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Workers’ Compensation Payments
Jan 4 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured...
#6 Workers’ Compensation Undercuts Employer Liability Exclusion, U.S. Appeals Court Rules
Jul 11 2023 // Since workers’ compensation shields an employer from liability, an insurer may not be able to rely on an employer liability exclusion in a commercial general liability policy to avoid claims. That’s the...
#7 California Trucker Death Led to Workers’ Comp Investigation That Found $2M in Underreported Payroll
May 17 2024 // An investigation began after an employee was found dead in a company owned semi-truck led to the arraignment of a California man on three felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. Heigo Kubar, 84, of Fresno, was...
#8 Workers’ Comp Fraud Task Force Uncovers $30M Scheme in California
Jun 12 2024 // A pair of businessmen were arraigned on multiple felony counts including insurance fraud, grand theft, and tax fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they allegedly underreported over $29.2...
#9 Shot-at FedEx Driver, Now on Workers’ Comp, Has Been Fired, Attorney Says
Aug 23 2023 // A Black FedEx delivery driver who says two white men shot at and chased him in Mississippi in 2022 has now been fired from his job, he and his attorney said Monday. “I honestly feel disrespected,” the former...
#10 Georgia Man Charged with Depriving Liberty Mutual of $9M in Workers’ Comp Premiums
Jan 2 2024 // Georgia authorities last week announced the arrest of a contractor charged with underreporting payroll and defrauding Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. of more than $9 million in premiums. Jose Martinez, 56, of Grayson, was...
#11 Are Some Florida Workers’ Comp Judges Bending to the Political Winds on Fees?
Jan 29 2024 // Attorney fees in Florida workers’ compensation cases seem to be part of a story that will never end, and a state appeals court has added new life to the story with decisions that give support to both sides of the...
#12 Are Florida Workers’ Comp Rates Getting Too Low? Roofers, Insurer Urge Freeze
Oct 6 2023 // Workers’ compensation rates have shrunk to such a low level in Florida, at least for some classifications, that they are causing problems and could be masking issues that will lead to higher premiums in coming years,...
#13 Workers’ Compensation Remains Profit Engine for U.S. P/C Insurers: AM Best
Jul 18 2023 // Workers’ compensation insurers’ underwriting results continued to outpace the rest of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) commercial sector in 2022, as they benefited from the long-term decline in workplace...
#14 No Workers’ Comp for Employee Injured When Vehicle Crashed Through Her Office Wall
Jun 28 2024 // An employee at the Virginia Department of Health who was seriously injured when a vehicle crashed through the wall of her first floor office is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia...
#15 Social Security Demands Billions From Workers’ Comp Recipients, Others for Overpayments
Sep 21 2023 // The Social Security Administration is trying to claw back billions of dollars in disability overpayments, many of them made to people who received workers’ compensation payouts for injuries, an analysis has...
#16 US Workers’ Comp Line Still Showing Strong Profits, Lower Claim Frequency
May 15 2024 // Net written premium in the U.S. workers’ compensation insurance market grew by just 1% from 2022 to 2023, a far smaller percentage than most other property/casualty lines. However, the workers’ compensation...
#17 Employee Wins Workers’ Compensation Under Exception to ‘Coming-and-Going’ Bar
Feb 27 2024 // An exception to the workers’ compensation “coming-and-going” rule applies where the employer provides the transportation even if the employer says there was no explicit agreement that he would supply...
#18 Massachusetts Couple Charged With $627K in Workers’ Compensation Fraud and More
Mar 15 2024 // A Hopkinton, Massachusetts couple has been arrested and charged in connection with separate schemes to defraud their workers’ compensation insurance carriers, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and their...
#19 Dean Denied Workers’ Compensation for Injury From ‘Walking and Turning’ in Hallway
May 22 2024 // A community college dean who was injured when she fell after she turned in a hallway to address a colleague is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. Mary Pat...
#20 Workers’ Compensation Bars Doctor Who Was Shot at New York Hospital From Suing
May 20 2024 // New York’s highest court has ruled that a doctor who was injured in a shooting at the hospital where he works cannot sue his employer, finding that his injuries arose out of his employment and are thus covered by...
