Amazon Cargo Plane Crash Near Houston Kills Three Aboard

Amazon said it was mourning a "terrible tragedy" after an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane crashed into a bay outside Houston, Texas, on Saturday, killing all three people on board.
February 25, 2019 Excess & Surplus Lines Workers' Compensation Texas

The Ranks Of The First Responder Special Class Is Growing

Legislative bills in Montana and Idaho that will grant certain benefits and presumptions for first responders appear to be headed to a successful result, bringing those states in line with many others who have recently followed the same path.
February 21, 2019 Legislation & Regulation Workers' Compensation Idaho Montana

Court Splits Decisions On NFL Players’ Disability Claims

The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied workers compensation benefits to one former Washington Redskins player while granting another player’s disability coverage.
February 14, 2019 Workers' Compensation Virginia

Free Physician Access To Comp Guidelines Spurs Subscriptions

Physician subscriptions to California’s drug formulary and treatment guidelines are rising mere days after the California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that medical providers who treat injured workers in the state would have free access, but doctors continue to object to treatment denials emanating from California’s utilization review process.
February 13, 2019 Legislation & Regulation Workers' Compensation California

Comp Official Allegedly Stretched Day Of Leave Into Yearlong Loot

As a district manager for New York State Workers’ Compensation Board and a tax specialist, Luis Torres should have known that continually accepting accidentally sent payroll tax reimbursements for over one year, stemming from a one-day workers compensation claim, was stealing.
February 11, 2019 Fraud Workers' Compensation New York

Freight Train Involved In Fatal Derailment Started On Its Own: TSB

A Canadian Pacific freight train parked on a frigid night in the Rocky Mountains began to move on its own before a derailment that killed three workers and sent 99 grain cars and two locomotives hurling off the track.
February 7, 2019 Excess & Surplus Lines Workers' Compensation

Committing Fraud 101: Lesson 1 Make Sure The Camera Is Not On You

Good morning, class, and welcome to Committing Fraud 101, a course where we will teach you the finer points and nuances for committing workers’ compensation fraud.
February 6, 2019 Fraud Workers' Compensation

Police Veteran Claimed Disability, But Was Recorded Bodybuilding

When investigators met her at a Las Vegas-area Starbucks last year, they recalled Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Lt. Mandy Henderson walking slowly and gingerly, leaning on her husband’s arm to steady herself. In the middle of their conversation, she even reportedly stopped to lie down on a bench after complaining of deep pain.
February 4, 2019 Fraud Workers' Compensation California

Nominations Are Open: Will You Comp Laude?

The workers’ compensation industry takes its share of bad news; some of it deserved, and some of it not. However, beyond the din of negativity, good things do happen within this industry.
January 25, 2019 Workers' Compensation

Insurer Not Responsible For Coal Executive’s Black Lung Liabilities

Liberty Mutual is not liable for claims potentially facing an executive for a coal company that did not have a black-lung endorsement on its workers compensation policy, a federal appeals court ruled.
January 24, 2019 Litigation Workers' Compensation Colorado

The NFL Faces A New Threat: An Evaporating Insurance Market

As the National Football League gets ready for championship weekend with a thrilling pair of games to decide who advances to the Super Bowl, a threat lurks.
January 23, 2019 Liability Workers' Compensation

What’s Happening With Conditional Payments On Workers’ Compensation Cases?

Addressing conditional payments in workers’ compensation cases adds an additional layer of complexity to the underlying claim.
January 17, 2019 Workers' Compensation

Workers’ Compensation Issues To Watch In 2019

We kick off 2019 by discussing 20 issues the workers’ compensation community should be monitoring. Our list includes both employee benefits and workers’ compensation issues, as these two areas inevitably overlap. Later in the year, several of these topics will be developed into individual “Out Front Ideas with Kimberly and Mark” webinars.
January 11, 2019 Workers' Compensation

Workers’ Comp Fraud Over $100,000 Lands Vero Beach Man Back In Jail

A Vero Beach man was charged with insurance fraud after deputies said he filed a fraudulent worker’s compensation claim worth more than $100,000 following a crash in June.
January 11, 2019 Fraud Workers' Compensation California

Taking The Temperature Of Evolving Trends In Catastrophic Workers’ Comp Cases

The soft market in the workers’ compensation space might be coming to an end, even as predictions about continued strong competition in workers’ comp throughout 2018, made in the USI 2018 Insurance Market Outlook, have come to fruition.
January 9, 2019 Workers' Compensation
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