2025 Claims Management: A Year of Transformation, Strict Regulations or Business-as-Usual? January 29, 2025 By Jeff Gurtcheff Driven by technological advancements, evolving workplace dynamics, and an ever-changing regulatory environment, significant shifts have emerged in how workers’ compensation...
California Workers’ Comp Public Self-Insured Losses Rise Despite Claim Volume Decline January 17, 2025 Increases in average medical payments and average indemnity payments drove public self-insureds’ total paid losses up last year even though...
He Saved the Chocolates But Lost His Workers’ Compensation Insurance January 2, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson An employee who was injured when rescuing chocolate candies from the heat in his employer-owned delivery truck is not due...
Claim Frequency in California Workers’ Comp Higher in L.A. Area, Study Shows December 5, 2024 Claim frequency in California workers’ compensation remains significantly higher in the Los Angeles Basin than in the northern part of...
Injured Worker Medical Costs Per Claim in California 10% Below Other States in Study October 22, 2024 Workers’ compensation medical payments per claim in California were 10% below the median state of a 17-state study sample for...
Worker Injured While Drunk on the Job Wins Claim Approval October 21, 2024 By Andrew G. Simpson A worker injured when he fell from a ladder is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits despite the fact he was...
The ‘Greenhouse Effect’: How an Oft-Touted Climate Solution Threatens Agricultural Workers July 18, 2024 By Melina Walling and Dorany Pineda MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work...
Amazon Worker Injured Due to Repetitive Tasks Loses Workers’ Compensation Bid July 18, 2024 By Andrew G. Simpson An Amazon distribution center worker in Virginia whose job entailed repetitive lifting and stowing of items all day and who...
Excessive Heat An Increasing Concern in Workers Comp: WCRI June 20, 2024 By Allen Laman With temperatures pushing above 90 degrees in parts of the Midwest and Northeast United States this week, many American workers...
16 Nabbed in Florida Sting Operation for Failing to Get Workers’ Comp Coverage May 3, 2024 A sting operation in Manatee County, Florida, has led to the arrest of 16 men who were working without a...