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.
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.
The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied workers compensation benefits to one former Washington Redskins player while granting another player’s disability coverage.
Physician subscriptions to Californias 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 Californias utilization review process.
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.
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.
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.
When investigators met her at a Las Vegas-area Starbucks last year, they recalled Santa Clara County Sheriffs Lt. Mandy Henderson walking slowly and gingerly, leaning on her husbands 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Vero Beach man was charged with insurance fraud after deputies said he filed a fraudulent workers compensation claim worth more than $100,000 following a crash in June.
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.