Workers' Compensation News
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Three Plead Guilty to Evading Payroll Tax, Comp Coverage | 04/09/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Three residents of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax fraud through a years-long scheme of avoiding workers' compensation coverage and vastly underreporting payroll. ...Read More | |||
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TDI Accepting Comments on Proposed Classification Changes | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting comments through May on proposed changes to classifications for hazardous material removal. The Natio...Read More | |||
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TDI Approves 11.5% Loss Cost Reduction | 03/31/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Department of Insurance announced that it adopted a National Council on Compensation Insurance recommendation to reduce the average advisory loss cost by 11.5%, effective July 1. ...Read More | |||
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Tow Truck Operator Charged With Failing to Provide Comp Coverage | 03/31/2025 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Department of Justice announced that the owner of a tow truck company was arrested and charged with failing to provide workers' compensation insurance. ...Read More | |||
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Trial Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Lift Stay in Billing Dispute | 03/11/2025 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alabama Supreme Court said a trial court erroneously lifted a stay in a dispute over payments for medical services because neither party filed a timely challenge to the final order putting the case on hold pending arbitration. ...Read More | |||
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Trial Court Abuses Discretion in Denying Venue Change After Missed Hearing | 03/10/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appeals court held that a trial court abused its discretion in finding attorneys who were unable to attend a motion hearing due to severe weather had abandoned their request to transfer the case to a different venue. ...Read More | |||
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Trial Court Should Have Dismissed Carrier, Adjuster From Injured Worker's Fraud Lawsuit | 02/28/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court awarded mandamus relief dismissing a carrier and its adjuster from a complaint alleging they fraudulently misclassified an injured worker as an employee to establish his entitlement to workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Task Force Says Employers Duck $58.7M in Premiums by Misclassifying Workers | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Businesses misclassifying construction workers in Maryland avoid paying an estimated $58.7 million in workers' compensation premiums annually, according to a new report by the state's Joint Enforcement Task Force on Workplace Fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Trump Nominates Former Amazon Safety Exec to Lead OSHA | 02/18/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| President Donald Trump nominated a former safety executive for UPS and Amazon to head up the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. ...Read More | |||
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Trench Collapse Leads to $529,640 in Fines for Smelly Mel's, Sewer Rat Plumbing | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued a combined $529,640 in penalties to employers Smelly Mel's Plumbing and Sewer Rat Plumbing for violating safety regulations that resulted in a trench collapse that seriously injured a worker. ...Read More | |||
