No Guarantee of Workers’ Comp Benefits For Essential Workers July 13, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON — Lauded for their service and hailed as everyday heroes, essential workers who get the coronavirus on the job...
Injured Workers Pharmacy Paying $11M to Settle Complaint June 30, 2020 A mail-order pharmacy that fought frequent court battles against workers’ compensation insurers will pay $11 million and change its business...
Vehicle Accidents an Exception Amid Declining Number of Work Injuries June 25, 2020 By Jim Sams While the frequency of workers’ compensation claims has continued a decades-long decline, the number of work injuries caused by motor...
Health Workers Dealing with Shock of Virus Fight, Uneasiness in Current Quiet June 17, 2020 By Jennifer Peltz Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to...
Pace of COVID-19 Claims in Calif. Slower than Projected So Far June 4, 2020 By Jim Sams California workers had filed 5,093 COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims as of Tuesday, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations,...
Rating Bureau Chief Assesses Impact of COVID-19 on California Work Comp May 19, 2020 By Don Jergler Bill Mudge has been put in a unique position during the pandemic. He’s got a sizeable workforce he’s had to...
More States Push COVID-19 Claims to Work Comp; Potential Cost Anyone’s Guess May 19, 2020 By Jim Sams Regulators and lawmakers in more states are demanding that workers who claim they were sickened by COVID-19 get a fair...
A.M. Best: Global Insurance Market Is Well Capitalized in the Face of COVID-19 May 18, 2020 Global insurers are well capitalized to absorb the hit from rising claims and costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic, ratings...
Federal Lawmakers Propose Heroes Compensation Act For Essential Worker Comp May 15, 2020 By Susanne Sclafane A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a plan to compensate essential workers who fall sick of die...
Workplace Worries Mount as US Tracks New COVID-19 Cases May 13, 2020 By David Crary NEW YORK — Even as President Donald Trump urges getting people back to work and reopening the economy, thousands of...