Markel and FirstComp have announced a new brand – Markel FirstComp – and a new independent agent portal. Founded in 1997, FirstComp was the small business workers’ compensation insurance arm of Aspen Holdings. It focuses on small to medium-sized main …
How do you contain upwardly spiraling costs, battle growing use and prescription of opioids, fight fraud, de-incentivize bad actors, all while sailing directly into political headwinds flowing from all the compass headings? A meeting between labor officials and handful of …
Despite a 30 percent increase in Oregon’s workforce, the state’s workers’ compensation claims are down sharply since the system was overhauled two decades ago. Workers’ Compensation Division administrator John Shilts told the Statesman-Journal employers are saving money but workplaces are …
A New Jersey workers’ compensation judge recently ruled that a thrift store volunteer cannot be considered as an employee for the purpose of determining compensability. A 50 percent store discount for volunteers doesn’t qualify as sufficient financial consideration to meet …
A workers’ compensation proposal for California is getting the backing of the Department of Industrial Relations as well as seeming endorsement from the governor’s office, although with only two weeks left in Legislative session some lawmakers are concerned there isn’t …
Insurance agency Barney & Barney has outlined a series of steps to help California’s small- to mid-sized employers control the rising cost of workers comp insurance following Wednesday’s decision by the state’s Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) to raise …
The Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has unanimously voted to authorize the WCIRB to make a Jan.1, 2013 filing recommending an average advisory pure premium rate that is 12.6 percent above the $2.38 average industry filed pure premium rate …
The prison in Woodward, Okla., is so short on guards that inmates can sometimes just walk away. A gas station barely has enough cashiers to keep up with the trucks filling the parking lot. And “help wanted” signs seem to …
A highly sheltered workers’ comp reform proposal being quietly passed around California’s capitol has the potential to make some noise when and if it ever gets introduced. The general consensus among those seeking reform is the need for roughly $700 …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Hebco Products Inc. in Bucyrus, Ohio, with 14 safety violations, including two repeat violations for failing to guard machines to prevent amputation injuries as well as document and …
