A leak on a big rig that ran on natural gas led to a fire that caused more than $2 million in damage and losses at a truck maintenance facility in southwest Wichita on Monday, fire officials said.

Right out of the gate, the Florida House took several major steps toward statewide insurance reform during the first week of the 2018 Legislative Session.

One person is dead and another was taken to a local trauma center Thursday morning after a natural gas explosion and fire at a Phoenix home, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.

The wine country wildfires have claimed another victim. This one, a clean-up worker. Truck driver Ezekiel Jackson Sumner Jr. was killed over the weekend, when he was hit by his own truck.

A San Diego federal jury this week convicted a Beverly Hills radiologist for his role in a massive fraud scheme that involved kickbacks for patient referrals so he could bill insurance companies more than $25 million in unnecessary medical services.

A firefighter died Thursday while battling the Thomas fire as authorities braced for new powerful winds that could pose threats to homes in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Officials said a combination of Santa Ana and sundowner winds will hit the area from Thursday through Sunday, bringing new dangers to a fire that now ranks as the fourth-largest in the state’s modern history.

Occupational injuries and illnesses are estimated to cost the United States as much as $250 billion a year. So cutting down on insurance costs in this area makes huge financial sense.

An industry whose hallmark is pain management is now grappling with its own ailment for which there is no easy cure: legacy claims tied to long-term opioid prescriptions.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of an explosion and fire that killed one man and injured more than 30 people, including firefighters, at a manufacturing plant in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Officials say a medical helicopter has crashed in rural Arkansas, killing all three people on board. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management confirms the helicopter went down Sunday night near the Arkansas County town of DeWitt, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Little Rock.

Medical payments per workers compensation claim with more than seven days lost time in California have decreased steadily since the enactment of reform legislation in 2013, according to a study released Thursday by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute.

Two California contractors are dead after falling from a helicopter in southwest Louisiana. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Myers says it happened about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sulphur.

Double-dipping, Monday-morning injuries, faking, malingering and illegal banking activity are mainstays in workers compensation claimant fraud with no end in sight despite the fact that it’s now easier to get caught, according to experts.

An analysis on opioid prescribing and workers compensation shows that nearly 70% of federally mandated and approved California workers compensation Medicare set-aside settlements for injured workers require funding for decades of opioid use.

A group of Southern California law enforcement officers who rushed to save lives during a gunman’s deadly rampage in Las Vegas returned home wounded but alive. Yet, while they were hailed for their heroic efforts, there is one benefit they won’t be afforded as they recover physically and psychologically from the Oct. 1 attack: workers’ compensation.