The board of the California Self-Insurers’ Security Fund has approved the 2019/20 Alternative Security Program. The ASP provides a financial backstop to replace security deposits required to collateralize self-insured workers’ compensation liabilities. It reportedly has freed $6.6 billion in working …
ArcelorMittal has been fined $14,000 after a steelworker died in an April train accident at the company’s Indiana Harbor steel mill in northwestern Indiana. The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports the Indiana Department of Labor Occupational Health and Safety Administration found …
Slip and falls, flying tools, poor posture. The workplace can be dangerous, and now you can add pets to the risks that Oregon workers face. Dogs and cats have accounted for more than 1,900 claims since 2014 received by SAIF, …
California financial advisor Tom Fallon, 65, has been sentenced in Long Beach Superior Court after being convicted in an open plea of 25 criminal counts of money laundering and grand theft. Fallon was sentenced to 10 years and four months …
A Spokane, Wash.-area woman faces a felony theft charge for allegedly running a construction business while claiming she was too disabled to work. Deborah J. Steeneck, 59, is accused of stealing more than $11,000 in workers’ compensation cash benefits from …
A shipping business in Ohio says two workers died after they were trapped in a silo filled with grain. The workers became trapped Friday morning inside the silo operated by The Andersons in Toledo. A Toledo fire department spokesman says …
Method Insurance Service is expanding and offering its specialty workers’ compensation program for underserved high-hazard, debit mod, mid-market risks in Illinois. Method is a program administrator for Service American Indemnity Company and now offers workers’ comp in 16 states focused …
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Applied Underwriters will voluntarily halt the selling of a reinsurance-based, loss-sensitive workers’ compensation product in New York under an agreement with the state regulator who first raised questions about the product three years ago. Applied Underwriters will …
Workers’ compensation claim frequency reported by private self-insured employers in California rose last year, as the incidence of both indemnity and medical-only claims rose from the 2017 levels, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute reported. This is the second consecutive year …
New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Lorelei Salas has announced an investigation into the tow truck industry that suggests widespread insurance and workers’ compensation fraud. DCWP is in the process of notifying approximately 130 tow …
