CompScience has found a way to reduce workers compensation risk and cost using artificial intelligence. Not just by the numbers, but by analyzing authentic, onsite video taken at clients’ facilities. The company provides video analytics and data-driven recommendations using existing …
Hartford Insurance Group has lost an appeal of a $1.45 million injury settlement between an injured employee and third parties where 60% was for loss of consortium for the wife of the injured worker. Hartford maintained that the consortium allocation …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently granted Massachusetts initial approval for a state-run safety and health plan for state and local government workers. The Massachusetts plan covers an estimated 430,000 state and local government …
A Massachusetts appeals court has ruled that a prison employee is entitled to “assault pay” for an injury even though his injury was not the result of a direct assault by an inmate. The court backed a bid for the …
Washington state regulators fined a wireless company $12,000 for safety violations after the death of a cellphone tower worker near Arlington last year. Michael Vasquez was working on a Crown Castle cell tower on Dec. 4, 2021 when he fell …
The mother of a man killed on a Baltimore construction site who was barred by Maryland’s workers’ compensation law from suing the contractor hired by the city has lost a bid to hold the city and subcontractor liable. The court …
Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the company’s annual Prime Day …
AM Best has upgraded the ratings of workers’ compensation insurer Synergy Comp Insurance Co. based in Sharon Pennsylvania. The rating organization upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” …
A laborer who fell and was injured after he stood on an inverted bucket to reach a cable has nobody to blame but himself under New York law. The worker, Angel Morales, did not need to use a bucket, ladder …
Pennsylvania officials have identified three dozen employers that are currently not carrying workers’ compensation insurance as required by state law. Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) released lists of employers that have violated one or more of the labor …
