The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s annual report shows net premiums earned were down in to $1.3 billion in 2017 from $1.5 billion a year earlier. State Fund issued its 2017 annual report on Thursday. The decline of State Fund’s …
As the U.S. market for telemedicine continues to expand, so does demand for insurance coverage for these providers, according to Beazley, which launched its product last summer. The U.S. is the largest and most mature telemedicine market, with revenues projected …
A southwest Missouri man who was injured twice at the BNSF Railway Co. rail yard in Springfield has been awarded more than $5 million in damages. A Greene County jury found for former conductor James Mitchell last week after a …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company, which provides workers’ compensation coverage to more than 70,000 business owners and 1.4 million employees, announced it will distribute $280 million in dividends in 2018. Nearly 75 percent of policyholder owners will receive a check from …
Amazon, Lowe’s and Tesla are among the firms on a list of employers with unsafe workplaces published by a federation of labor, health and safety groups. The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) released its annual “The …
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has vetoed Senate Bill 936, which sought to amend the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act by establishing a formulary, or a list of prescription medications that could be prescribed to injured workers. “The formulary proposed in this …
Tens of thousands of residents of a northern Wisconsin city were cleared to return to their homes on April 27, a local official said, a day after a Husky Energy Inc. refinery explosion injured at least 20 people. The facility, …
The Los Angeles Police Department says one of its officers has been arrested on suspicion of workers’ compensation fraud. Officials say Officer John Bailey was taken into custody this week after a felony warrant was issued for his arrest. City …
Wisconsin added the most manufacturing jobs of any state in the first quarter of 2018 and ranks fourth nationally in the number of private sector jobs added in March, the state Department of Workforce Development (DWD) reported State-by-state rankings released …
Workers’ compensation insurer, Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance (MEM), says it experienced an all-time high in injury-free policyholders last year. MEM’s 2017 workplace safety data show the company increased its total policy count from 15,857 to 17,561 in 2017. And that …
