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.
A pronounced fraud and abuse trend in recent years involves fabricated and often useless tests to diagnose the health of muscles and nerve cells that control them.
The U.S. Coast Guard reported Friday that the oil barge B255 caught fire early on Friday at a position about three miles off the harbor entrance at Port Aransas, Texas. The barge was under tow by the ATB tug Buster Bouchard at the time of the incident.
Florida businesses could see workers’ compensation insurance premiums decrease in 2018, after a tumultuous period that included a double-digit rate hike late last year and a lobbying battle about whether to revamp workers’ compensation laws.
Aon has collaborated with insurtech CLARA analytics to offer workers’ compensation insurers artificial intelligence and predictive analytics tools that help injured employees return to work quickly. The deal facilitated by Aon Benfield, the broker’s reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, also decreases loss ratios and improves operational efficiency around claims for carriers, according to the companies.
An oil rig exploded on a Louisiana lake Sunday night, injuring seven people, five of them critically, while another person remained unaccounted, authorities said.<br /><br />The explosion on Lake Pontchartrain was reported at 7:18 p.m. (8:18 p.m. ET) about 1½ miles from shore, authorities said at a briefing late Sunday. Rescue efforts were still underway, they said.
