The bodies of two missing crew members of a dredging boat were found on Saturday, Aug. 22 following an explosion a day earlier in the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The search for …
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 panel of judges …
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 (DIA) regulation, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. This …
Crews on Aug. 17 recovered the body of a construction worker trapped in debris for more than 10 months after the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans. The remains of Jose Ponce Arreola, 63, were …
The widower of a Philadelphia police officer who died while on duty has been charged with fraud after authorities say he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of workers’ compensation death benefits after he had remarried. The Philadelphia district …
The family of a suburban Chicago woman who died of complications related to COVID-19 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a meatpacking plant where her husband worked and contracted the virus. The family of Esperanza Ugalde alleges in their …
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 targeted safety results in 2020. The group dividend payments reached more than …
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 more than quadrupled to 22,621 since the last data …
CNA Financial Corp. saw its 2020 second quarter net income sliced almost by half compared to the previous year due to “considerable catastrophe losses” from COVID-19, civil unrest and weather-related events. The Chicago-based commercial property/casualty insurer booked $151 million in …
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 status in real time. Pie said the portal features …
