A court is upholding a $1.2 million state fine for labor violations committed by a Texas labor broker who underpaid dozens of mentally disabled workers at an Iowa turkey processing plant. The Iowa Court of Appeals rejected arguments by Henry’s …
Federal investigators want to know why a freight train streaking across the Oklahoma Panhandle failed to pull into a side track and instead charged down the main line and collided head-on with another train approaching from the opposite direction. Three …
Three Union Pacific crew members remain missing after two trains collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle, causing a white-hot fire that emergency crews are struggling to extinguish. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph says the fire near Goodwell is contained but …
A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), an independent, not-for-profit research organization based in Cambridge, Mass., says that costs of medical care for injured workers in Texas have dropped. The study says the drop is largely the …
In what has been called a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Texas has found that a bad faith cause of action is inconsistent with the current workers’ compensation system. The Court’s decision strengthens a law affecting millions of Texans, …
Authorities said a former U.S. Postal Service employee has pleaded guilty to receiving over $18,000 in fraudulent workers’ comp benefits. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern District of New York said Thomas Dombroski of North Syracuse entered a guilty plea …
Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Joseph Murphy announced Thursday that the state received more than $3.44 million as its share of a 50-state settlement with the American Insurance Group. Commissioner Murphy stated that AIG has admitted it had underreported workers’ comp premiums, …
The California Department of Insurance will distribute $32 million in grants to district attorneys in California to support efforts to investigate and prosecute workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Every year, the Fraud Assessment Commission determines the grant funding based on assessments …
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is promoting a newly passed law that permanently revokes the credentials of miners who fail drug tests. Beshear was in Pikeville on Tuesday where he said the law sends a clear message that drug and alcohol …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of the property/casualty subsidiaries of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (EIHI), which consists of Eastern Alliance Insurance Company, Allied Eastern Indemnity …
