The increased cost and more frequent use of medical care provided to injured workers in Wisconsin drove up the average medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in recent years, according to a new study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation …
Minneapolis, Minn.-based ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a national damaged vehicle repairer, announced it has opened five repair centers. Three of the centers are corporate owned, and two are franchises. The corporate centers were opened in Tucker, Ga. — part …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued SPA Pipe and Supply LP in Abilene, Texas, doing business as Smith Pipe, 20 serious and two other-than-serious citations after an inspection at the company’s facility on Highway …
Liens are “choking” California’s workers’ compensation system, with employers and insurers spending roughly $200 million per year on loss adjustment expense to handle medical liens claims, according to a new liens report. In the Golden State’s workers’ compensation system, a …
A Billings, Mont., couple whose home was destroyed in October by a falling boulder has filed a motion in District Court asking that the city of Billings be ordered to remove sandstone debris from the property and that two other …
A Central California company is recalling four brands of fresh cilantro because they may be contaminated with salmonella. Sabor Farms in Salinas announced the recall on Jan. 28, 2011. The recalled cilantro was sold between Jan. 14 and Jan. 28 …
A woman who lost about 200 farm animals in an upstate New York barn fire blames the disaster on a propane heater she had set up to protect newborn and pregnant sheep and goats from subzero cold. Robin Dillenbeck, sitting …
The Vermont College of Fine Arts is hosting a contra dance to benefit an emergency fund for organic farmers like Pete’s Greens in Craftsbury, which lost a barn to fire. The Jan. 12 fire destroyed the main barn and its …
Eight Floridians who provided information that led to arrests and convictions in five major insurance fraud cases have been given rewards totaling $50,500. These citizens helped uncover more than $2 million in fraudulent insurance billings leading to 26 arrests to …
Australian insurers have reacted to the disastrous flooding in Queensland earlier this month with two new initiatives aimed at developing a more effective and sustainable response to disasters in Australia. They also stressed their opposition to mandatory flood insurance or …