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CA: Owner, Manager of Poultry Processing Company Charged With Insurance Fraud and Wage Theft
CA: Owner, Manager of Poultry Processing Company Charged With Insurance Fraud and Wage Theft

Los Angeles, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that charges were filed today against two executives of a poultry processing company for underreporting their payroll to workers’ compensation insurance carriers […]
CA: Husband and Wife Business Owners Charged in $4.5 Million Workers’ Compensation Fraud Scheme
CA: Husband and Wife Business Owners Charged in $4.5 Million Workers’ Compensation Fraud Scheme

Los Angeles, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Wei Wen Wu, 54, and Feng Wen Lam, 49, both of Arcadia, are charged with 43 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft, and conspiracy after allegedly underreporting nearly $4.5 […]
WA: Construction Company Fined More Than a Quarter-Million Dollars After Worker Falls to His Death From a Bridge
WA: Construction Company Fined More Than a Quarter-Million Dollars After Worker Falls to His Death From a Bridge

Tumwater, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) - A Bellingham construction company is facing nearly $284,000 in fines for not ensuring safeguards were in place to keep workers from falling off the Beverly Railroad bridge spanning the Columbia River […]
AM Best Affirms Financial Strength Rating of CopperPoint Insurance Company
AM Best Affirms Financial Strength Rating of CopperPoint Insurance Company

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) - CopperPoint Insurance Companies, a western-based super regional commercial insurance company, announced today that AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) for CopperPoint Insurance Company and its subsidiaries […]
NCDOL Releases Workplace Fatality Count For 2021
NCDOL Releases Workplace Fatality Count For 2021

Raleigh, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) - Struck-by incidents caused the largest number of non COVID-19 work-related deaths last year in the Tar Heel state, based on preliminary information released today by the N.C. Department of Labor (NCDOL). […]
Updated OSHA-NIOSH Small Business Safety and Health Handbook
Updated OSHA-NIOSH Small Business Safety and Health Handbook

Small business owners want to ensure their workers go home safe and healthy at the end of the day. However, small businesses tend to experience higher workplace injury and illness rates than larger businesses. The […]
Tower MSA Partners’ Feb. 3 Webinar Explores New CMS Statement on Non-submit MSAs
Tower MSA Partners’ Feb. 3 Webinar Explores New CMS Statement on Non-submit MSAs

Delray Beach, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - A new section in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Reference Guide (Version 3.5) has raised questions about the use of non-CMS approved products […]
Will Worker's Comp Exclusive Remedy Protect Alec Baldwin?
Will Worker's Comp Exclusive Remedy Protect Alec Baldwin?

Sacramento, CA - Alec Baldwin’s attorneys argued in a demurrer filed on Monday that the Worker's Compensation exclusive remedy protects him from a lawsuit stemming from the "Rust" shooting last October. The filing comes in response to a civil […]