Workers' Compensation News
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Report: Lawmakers Pause on Pinnacol Privatization Proposal | 04/16/2025 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Efforts to privatize Pinnacol Assurance are likely on hold until the 2026 legislative session, according to a report published in a newsletter run by the Colorado Chamber ...Read More | |||
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Reports: Jury Awards $145M for Unreasonable Denial of Comp Claim | 04/14/2025 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Colorado jury ordered NorGUARD Insurance Co. to pay $145 million — including $60 million in punitive damages — after finding that the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary failed to approve treatment for a worker’s traumatic brain injury, according to multiple media reports. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Most Small Businesses Experience Workplace Injuries — Half of Them Preventable | 04/04/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Workplace injuries are a growing financial burden on small businesses, according to a new safety report by Pie Insurance. Denver-based Pie&...Read More | |||
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Reserve Cop Can't Get Benefits for Injuries From Working as Motorcycle Escort | 03/27/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a commissioned reserve police officer was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for his injuries from a traffic accident that happened while he was providing motorcycle escort services to a private company. ...Read More | |||
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Report: City's Comp Costs Skyrocket | 03/21/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Santa Monica Daily Press reported a nearly 30% increase in the city's work comp liabilities in the most recent fiscal year, as hospital fees increased 264% and nursing ho...Read More | |||
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Report: Proposal to Provide Work Comp to Teachers Stalls | 03/21/2025 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Alabama Daily News reports that a bill to provide workers' compensation benefits to the state's teachers has stalled in a House of Representatives committee. ...Read More | |||
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Report: SAIF CEO Reports Home Targeted by Gunfire | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The chief executive officer of Oregon's SAIF Corp. said someone fired three bullets through his front door, according to a report by Wi...Read More | |||
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Rates to Drop 3.6% in March | 01/23/2025 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance announced that workers' compensation premiums will decline in March for the 12th consecutive year. ...Read More | |||
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Residential Property Owners Get Summary Judgment on Worker's Labor Law Claims | 12/10/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a worker’s Labor Law claims against a residential property’s owners. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Worker Claims Retaliatory Firing for Comp Filing | 12/02/2024 | |
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| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. employee in Kansas alleges in a lawsuit that his employer illegally fired him in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim, according to a report by the ...Read More | |||
