Alleged health and safety violations at an Arkansas food processing plant have resulted in a proposed $156,700 fine for the plant’s owner. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health cited Mountain Lakes, N.J.-based Pinnacle Foods Group LLC for …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) in late May announced an extension of the $65 million in rate cuts enacted last year for Ohio’s private sector employers to the 2013 policy year that begins July 1. BWC’s board of …
The mother of a man who died in an explosion at a Pascagoula, Mississippi fertilizer factory says her son never spoke of any safety problems at the plant. Twenty-year-old Jeremy Moore of Hurley died Friday — the second man to …
SCF Arizona announced it will pay out safety dividends totaling $3.5 million for 2011 to qualified policyholders, making it the 41st consecutive year the company’s board of directors approved a dividend payment. Arizona’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance began …
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) was created by the state legislature in 1991 in an effort to stabilize and revitalize the state’s workers’ compensation. Today, the private nonprofit mutual insurance company has around 17,000 policyholders and is the largest workers’ …
A bill aimed at ending double payments for spinal surgery devices passed state Senate resoundingly on Wednesday and is now on its way to Assembly. Senate Bill 959 will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars per year, according to …
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Tuesday issued a decision on the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s July 1 pure premium rate filing that was submitted in April. Jones approved new advisory pure premium rates that average $2.49 per $100 of …
A decades-long decline in population is likely to continue in Kansas, particularly in the west of the state, and four counties could have fewer than 1,000 residents by 2040, according to a study by Wichita State University’s Center for Economic …
A former Illinois State Police trooper whose high-speed crash killed two sisters is asking again for workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he received in the wreck. The Belleville News-Democrat reported the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commissioners would hear an appeal from …
Texas Mutual Insurance Co.’s board of directors has approved the company’s plan to distribute $150 million in workers’ compensation dividends. This marks the 14th consecutive year the board has approved a dividend distribution to qualifying policyholder owners. By the end …
