Omaha National Insurance Co., a Nebraska-based provider of workers’ compensation insurance to small and mid-size businesses, has appointed Dennis Chookaszian and Geoff Banta as independent members of its board of directors. Chookaszian is the former chairman and CEO of CNA …
DeRidder, Louisiana-based workers’ compensation insurer, Amerisafe Inc., has named Andrew McCray as its new executive vice president and chief underwriting officer. McCray comes to Amerisafe with more than 30 years of insurance industry experience. Prior to joining Amerisafe, he was …
Investigators from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office have charged a 56- year-old New York man with grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony, and penalties for fraudulent practices, a class E felony. Robert Marra of Crawford, N.Y., …
A meat packing plant in San Angelo, Texas, has been cited for exposing workers to highly hazardous chemicals and faces more than $615,000 in penalties. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited 7 S Packing …
An explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone factory claimed a second victim Saturday when an employee taken to a hospital after the blast died, a local coroner confirmed, and the official death toll is expected to rise to four …
An Ohio aluminum manufacturing company accused of misleading investigators and its parent company after a fatal workplace accident has pleaded guilty to a related federal charge about concealing information on a crime. Extrudex Aluminum in North Jackson this week pleaded …
The number of workplace injury claims continues to decline year after year despite significant changes in workforce demographics that experts thought would increase claims frequency, according to a report by the National Council of Compensation Insurance. The number of workers …
It’s a safe bet that there are a number of those among us who envision workers in the marijuana industry as mostly a bunch of mellow bud-blazers haphazardly performing the daily tasks of trimming, potting, transporting or selling cannabis. Those …
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said her office will target businesses that cheat their employees of wages, pledging a forceful crackdown on what she called an under-the-radar problem that also lets companies dodge taxes. “Our office intends to be as …
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has signed a bill to make it easier for firefighters to receive workers’ compensation for cancer and other occupational diseases. The bill signing ends a 20-year fight for firefighters’ workers’ compensation claims to be presumed valid …
