January 27, 2023
One of the largest providers of workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky has a new home. Or, rather, a home – its first physical headquarters. The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self Insurers’ Fund has brought all operations in-house, added staff and …
January 25, 2023
Before testimony begins in South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial, defense lawyers will ask the judge to make a pair of key rulings this week that could strike a massive amount of evidence from the case. Prosecutors want to …
January 17, 2023
Physician dispensing of medications has long been a flash point in workers’ compensation insurance, with at least 22 states regulating or restricting the practice. Florida is no exception to the controversy, and stakeholders on both sides of the issue joined …
January 16, 2023
If Stephany Connelly had not been working, she may have been entitled to collect up to $350,000 in uninsured motorist benefits because of the injuries she suffered from a 2015 car crash. But she was working at the time of …
January 9, 2023
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A worker from Texas is dead after falling at an oil rig site in North Dakota. Daniel Navarrete, 42, of New Braunfels, Texas, fell through an open hatch Thursday in a pit at a Nabors Industries …
January 5, 2023
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s Division of Workers’ Compensation is having a busy January. Starting today, Jan. 5, the Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold meetings on key medical reimbursement issues. The division also has posted proposed changes to …
January 4, 2023
Three construction workers were killed and two others were hurt on Monday when scaffolding collapsed in an industrial accident at a job site in Charlotte, North Carolina, authorities said. The scaffolding collapsed just after 9 a.m. at a construction site …
December 21, 2022
Tennessee’s insurance commissioner has approved a 10.2% average decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs for the voluntary market, marking the 10th-straight reduction for the state. The Dec. 14 order from Commissioner Carter Lawrence approved a recommendation from the National Council …
December 20, 2022
This article has been updated to reflect information from the prosecutor in the case. A Georgia insurance agent has been sentenced to five years in prison after he was convicted of providing fraudulent workers’ compensation coverage certificates while collecting thousands …
December 13, 2022
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – Crews have found the body of a fourth person who died in an explosion at a San Antonio construction company and investigators worked Monday to determine the cause and origin of the blast. The blast happened …