Workers' Compensation News
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One Large Legal Battle Over KSBIT Ends With Settlement | 12/19/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| One chapter in the long legal saga involving the defunct Kentucky School Board Insurance Trust ended last week with a multimillion-dollar settlement. ...Read More | |||
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Origami Risk Acquires Claimwire | 12/19/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Origami Risk, a company that provides software and services to the risk and insurance industry, has acquired Claimwire, a provider of automated workers’ compensation forms, compliance resources and regulatory information to the insurance industry. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Fines USPS Mail Processing Facility $178K | 12/19/2016 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Federal work safety inspectors found that Virginia postal workers sometimes walked around and between moving trucks in the dark on the loading dock of a mail processing facility in Merrifield. ...Read More | |||
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Outlook Gloomy for New Formularies in 2017, Officials Say | 12/16/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Efforts to adopt drug formularies stalled this year in Louisiana, Nebraska and North Carolina, and stakeholders were not optimistic on Thursday about major movement in any of the states during 2017. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Blames Production Targets for Crushing Death, Issues $2.5M in Fines | 12/15/2016 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing more than $2 million in fines against three Alabama companies that it says were responsible for an accident that caused an employee of an automotive parts manufacturer to be crushed to death two weeks before her wedding day....Read More | |||
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Opinions Vary on Role of Physical Therapist Assistants in Comp | 12/14/2016 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s veto of legislation that would have allowed physical therapist assistants to treat injured workers is a missed opportunity to improve the efficiency of the state’s workers’ compensation system, according to some. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Fines Bread Manufacturer $87K After 2 Workers Hurt Cleaning Machines | 12/12/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Illinois bread manufacturer's failure to power down machines during cleaning led to two workers suffering severe injuries in a six-week period, Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA's Grain-Handling Facility Inspections Yield $83K Fine for Texas Manufacturer | 12/12/2016 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors carrying out investigations of grain-handling facilities cited CPE Feeds Inc. in Brownfield for 22 violations of work safety protocol....Read More | |||
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OSHA Settles With Central Transport Over Defective Forklift Issue | 12/09/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A case involving the shipping company Central Transport's alleged use of defective forklifts has been settled before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, the federal work safety agency announced. ...Read More | |||
| OSHA Fines Contractor $80K After Seeing Workers Without Gloves, Goggles, Fall Protection | 12/08/2016 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| This August, safety inspectors watched workers apply stucco to an Evanston, Illinois, home's roof without gloves, goggles or fall protection. Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors also found that JW Construction and Plastering's scaffolds were not fully planked,...Read More | |||
