Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was oversaturated with oxygen. He …
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation raising charges on businesses to replenish an insolvent state fund that provides benefits to disabled workers The new law will temporarily double the surcharge that businesses pay on their workers’ compensation insurance in …
The California Department of Insurance announced a settlement with Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois over what CDI alleged was improper use of workers’ compensation insurance agreements. Zurich’s agreements forced California employers to arbitrate commercial …
Christine Baker, director of the Department of Industrial Relations, on Wednesday approved the implementation of the 2013/14 Alternative Security Program, which Baker said frees up $7.7 billion in capital that provides self-insured businesses in the state “greater financial flexibility.” According …
The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation approved this month a 7.4 percent overall voluntary loss cost increase for new and renewal workers’ compensation policies. The change will take effect in August. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) had …
Plants that were the sites of two chemical explosions a day apart in south Louisiana remain closed, and it could be months before federal investigators determine the causes of the blasts that killed three workers and sent nearly 100 others …
Jason Molnar makes a living deep in the trenches of workers’ compensation battles in California, so you’d think when there was a no show from an opponent at an official lien hearing that he’d be relieved by what should have …
California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will begin issuing $100 million worth of dividend payments to eligible policyholders in early July, the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer announced on Tuesday. The dividend be paid on the 2012 policy year, and eligible …
Four workers were hurt, three critically, after a barn frame collapsed on June 22 at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that’s under construction. The collapse happened on university property about a mile from the main campus, Texas …
The Alaska Workers Compensation Board sought public input on rising costs in the last week. Board members held public meetings in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kenai and Juneau seeking comment on ways to stem rising costs. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reported …
