Assaults Are Among Most Common Cause of Workplace Injuries for Women March 20, 2019 Women suffer 70 percent of all nonfatal assault-related injuries involving days away from work and are disproportionately impacted by other...
Tesla Defends Factory Worker Safety as Injury Days-Off Rise March 19, 2019 By Josh Eidelson and Dana Hull Tesla Inc. factory employees spent almost three times as many days off the job because of work-related injuries and illness...
Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado to Distribute $70M Dividends March 18, 2019 Pinnacol Assurance announced on Monday it is distributing general dividend checks to its customers totaling $70 million. Pinnacol also recently...
Before Heading to Prison, Attorney Apologizes for Major Workers’ Comp Fraud March 12, 2019 By Jim Sams Sean Enrique O’Keefe said he started out as a “humanistic attorney,” but he became a mercenary and then a criminal...
OSHA Scraps Obama Workplace Injury Reporting Rule; 6 States Sue March 11, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield Citing a concern over potential public disclosure of sensitive worker information, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently eliminated...
Texas Canned Food Company Faces $194K in OSHA Penalties March 6, 2019 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bruce Foods Corp. – a Mexican food...
Pie Keeps Growing; Workers’ Comp Startup Raises $45 Million in Latest Round March 5, 2019 Pie Insurance, an insurtech selling workers’ compensation coverage online to small businesses, has completed a $45 million Series B funding...
Nevada OKs Workers’ Comp Loss-Cost and Assigned-Risk Rate Decreases March 1, 2019 Nevada Insurance Commissioner Barbara D. Richardson approved a filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average decrease...
Worker at Michigan Car Wash Dies After Pickup Pins Him Against Wall March 1, 2019 Police say one employee was killed and another was injured at a suburban Detroit car wash when a pickup truck...
Worker Dies After Falling at School Construction Site in Louisiana February 28, 2019 School officials say a subcontractor fell at a new school construction site in Louisiana and later died. News outlets report...