Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ compensation rates are poised to decrease by 8.4 percent as of May 1. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon approved NCCI’s rate filing, ...
Read More Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The 7.5 percent rate reduction demanded by Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will take effect Jan.1. Commissioner David Altmaier had rejected the ...
Read More Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Mirroring the legislation passed this September in California, New York state is considering changes to labor laws regarding how employers can classify their ...
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Las Vegas, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) – The number of workers’ compensation claims with comorbidities has tripled in recent years, and these claims have twice the medical costs of comparable ...
Read More Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - A survey by the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit association of more than 420 large U.S employers, found that eight of 10 employers were concerned about ...
Read More Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - All workers’ compensation claims can run into issues with a Daubert Objection. Daubert, as you may know, references a U.S. Supreme Court case that dealt with ...
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Santa Fe, NM (WorkersCompenstion.com) – The state of California cannot take over an insurance company that is neither a California corporation nor a California domiciled insurer, New Mexico regulators ...
Read More Kissimmee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Florida legislator is proposing a bill that would force the state’s workers’ compensation program to cover post-traumatic stress disorder in ...
Read More Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - If an employer/carrier denies a workers’ compensation benefit, the matter may have to be reviewed by a judge of compensation claims. It is not uncommon for ...
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