California women routinely receive less in workers’ compensation than men, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleged, partly because of stereotypes that lead to unfair reductions in benefits and an overwhelming majority of male medical examiners.

First responders are unable to return to work, because they cannot get their worker’s comp claims approved. Now, lawmakers are trying to change the law they say is responsible.

Big Data is changing the way the world does business, and this is nowhere more true than in the financial realm. According to Dax Craig, CEO of Valen Analytics, more than half of all property and casualty insurers are now using predictive analytics to determine pricing and simply to decide which risks are more or less attractive to insure.

Snake oil salesmen in the 1800s made a living selling potions with extravagant healing claims that were patently false. Medical con artists, like all con artists, trade in ignorance.

Grainy video projected onto a screen depicted a man in waders casting with a fly rod while traversing a bank of river rock — his face pixelated to protect his identity. He was receiving workers’ comp benefits at the time for an injured shoulder.

Authorities say a man died and three others were injured in an oil well explosion in western North Dakota. The McKenzie County Sheriff’s Department says 52-year-old Johnny Stassinos of Rock Springs, Wyoming, died Saturday afternoon from injuries suffered that morning at a well site operated by XTO Energy Inc. near Watford City.

A Patton Village police officer and an 11-year-old child were killed during a police chase late Sunday. The chase started near Highway 242 and Highway 59 after police responded to reports of a man exposing himself at a Valero gas station.

A Northern California police officer died in a motorcycle crash, authorities announced Tuesday. San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia said Officer Michael Katherman, 34, was riding his patrol motorcycle in uniform when he was involved in a head-on collision with a minivan at around 4:30 p.m.

Doctors in states that track painkiller prescriptions were nearly one-third less likely to offer patients dangerously addicting opioids, a new study found. The launch of drug-monitoring programs in 24 states led to an immediate 30 percent drop in prescriptions for Schedule II opioids, the most addictive, in patients with pain complaints, the study showed.

A looming 17.1 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates has Florida businesses worried. Proposed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance on May 27, the increase comes after 13 years of declines in rates.

A Bridgeport man who was supposedly rendered unable to work as a state judicial marshal due to on-the-job injuries was arrested today and charged illegally collecting Workers’ Compensation benefits after he was seen working a security job at a Stamford bar.

A worker for a hot air balloon company was carried aloft holding onto the aircraft’s basket and fell to his death in New York state, police said on Saturday.

One man was killed when the garbage truck he was riding on the back of was hit by another vehicle Thursday morning.
Alabama State Troopers say, Harold James Dickey, 34, was killed when the garbage truck was hit be a 2013 Ford F350 driven by Kernie M. Risner, 33 of Blountsville.

The Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study’s 2016 claims leader survey is now underway, offering a chance for professionals in the field to share their knowledge of issues impacting claims organizations today.

As two criminal cases became public this week, the Justice Department today announced three cases in which additional defendants have pleaded guilty to federal charges for participating in a long-running health care fraud scheme that illegally referred thousands of patients for spinal surgeries and generated nearly $600 million in fraudulent billings over an eight-year period.