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Workers' Compensation News

 
Employers Must Apply for BWC Refunds under $420 Million Settlement by Sept. 22 08/05/2014
State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Employers seeking a refund in a recent $420 million settlement of a class-action case involving state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation-approved overcharges must apply by Sept. 22, the Columbus law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease reported in a recent note to clients. As many as 2...Read More
 
 
Employer Liable for Cumulative Trauma even if Symptoms began before Hiring Claimant 08/04/2014
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
State: NE | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
A dentist and her insurance carrier are liable for benefits and medical care to a hygienist for her work-related cumulative trauma neck injury, even though the hygienist's symptoms and treatment had started long before she started working for the dentist, the N...Read More
 
 
Employer Not Liable for Worker's Death from Sitting still too long 08/01/2014
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
The family of a telecommunications manager who died after working all night at her home office is not entitled to death benefits, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court ruled earlier this week. Cathleen Renner, a mother of three, died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 47 after having sp...Read More
 
 
Employers Notes Declining Indemnity and Climbing Earned Premium in Net 47.7% Income Growth 08/01/2014
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
Employers Holdings saw a 47.7% increase in net income before the effects of a loss portfolio transfer during the second quarter of 2014. The Reno, Nev.-based small business insurer grew its net income before the LPT from $9.9 million in the second quarter of 2013 to $14.6 million in ...Read More
 
 
Examworks Grows Adjusted Earnings 38.3% in Q2 07/31/2014
Source: Examworks
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
Examworks, a Georgia-based independent medical exam service provider, pulled in earnings before taxes, depreciation and amortization of $34.6 million in the second quarter of 2014, a growth of 38.3% from last year. The company's EBITDA was bolstered with revenue growth, especially in ...Read More
 
 
Everest Re Reports $14 Million Growth in Net Income on Heels of Premium Increases 07/28/2014
Source: Everest Re
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Medical
Everest Re Group saw its net income climb $14 million from $275.6 million in the second quarter of 2013 to $290.2 million in the second quarter of 2014. Even as the group's investment income fell more than $17 million between second quarters, its earned premiums rose more than $120 mi...Read More
 
 
Energi, HDI-Gerling Enter Multi-Year Deal to Insure Energy Market Risks 07/28/2014
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Energi and HDI-Gerlling America announced they have entered a multi-year agreement that extends the partnership in offering risk management and insurance programs to segments of the energ...Read More
 
 
East Hartford's Mayor Has Her Eye on Contractor with History of 'Stop-Work' Orders 07/25/2014
State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Town officials in East Hartford told the Hartford Courant newspaper they will be scrutinizing the payroll records of Intext Building System as it works on the Raymond Memorial Library expansion. On July 23, a group organized by the New England Regional Coun...Read More
 
 
Empire Underwriters Offering Comp in N.Y., Pa., N.J. and Conn. 07/25/2014
State: NA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Empire Underwriters said Thursday that it is expanding its workers' compensation offering to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Empire, a program manager, excess lines broker and managing general agent based in Tampa, Florida, said its workers' compensation covera...Read More
 
 
Experts Tout Chronic Pain Treatment without Drugs 07/24/2014
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
Cognitive behavioral therapy, dosing limits and even exercise are in the arsenal to combat what one national expert called a "national emergency" during a webinar on Wednesday. The experts, called together by the Center for Workers’ Compensation Studies, said that measures...Read More
 
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