December 19, 2019
Pie Insurance today has expanded its workers’ comp insurance offering into New Jersey. This latest addition increases Pie’s coverage area to 32 states and the District of Columbia. Pie Insurance, co-founded by former Esurance CMO John Swigart and former Valen …
December 12, 2019
Omaha National, an Omaha, Nebraska-headquartered workers’ compensation insurance and payroll services provider serving small and midsize employers, has announced it is expanding coverage to New Jersey. New Jersey is the eighth state in which Omaha National offers coverage, following news …
December 11, 2019
Medical workers treated nearly a dozen people and firefighters evacuated a building Monday after a chemical reaction caused injuries inside a manufacturing plant. The Montgomery Fire Department said the incident happened after chemicals became mixed accidentally at Kinpak, a plastic …
December 11, 2019
Workers’ compensation claims have emerged as another yardstick for measuring the devastation of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach. The Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday that 450 city employees have filed for workers’ compensation benefits. The vast majority of the claims are …
December 9, 2019
St. Louis, Missouri-based Safety National, through its annual Safety First Grant Program, has awarded three policyholders for their creative risk control solutions. The first-place grant, in the amount of $10,000, was awarded to Yale University to host a series of …
December 6, 2019
Massachusetts prosecutors asked a judge to sentence a drain company owner to seven to 10 years in prison for his involvement in the collapse and flooding of a trench that killed two workers. Atlantic Drain Service owner Kevin Lee Otto, …
December 5, 2019
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dana Railcare, based in Wilmington, Del., for confined space hazards after an employee fatality in Pittston, Penn. The railcar service provider faces $551,226 in proposed penalties. An …
December 4, 2019
Maine police say a city employee was struck and killed by the bucket truck he had been driving while he and another worker were hanging Christmas wreaths. The Portland Press Herald reports the two workers were hanging wreaths on light …
December 3, 2019
Authorities say one worker was killed and another seriously hurt when they fell from the bucket of a lift truck while working on a Massachusetts bridge. State police say the workers fell onto a barge at about 10 a.m. Wednesday …
December 2, 2019
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is imposing additional fines on a roofing contractor in Maine charged in the 2018 death of a worker. The new fines of $278,000 bring the total to more than $2 million in fines against …