Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $498,348 dividend to the Texas Schools Group (TSG) workers’ compensation purchasing group and a $65,128 dividend to the Texas Association of Manufacturers (TAM) purchasing group. TSG administrator Perry Hunter Hall Inc. will distribute the …
Roofers and other construction workers are busy repairing damage from the severe weather that raced through Kentucky early last month. When the Kentucky Office of Insurance sent members of its emergency response team to seven counties the week after the …
Major floods that struck America’s heartland last week offer a preview of the spring seasonal outlook, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service. Several factors will contribute to above-average flood conditions, including record rainfall in some …
San Diego-based Preferred Employers Insurance Co., which specializes inworkers’ compensation insurance for small employers in California, has created a medical provider network for treatment of work related injuries. The network, Preferred Select MPN, is comprised of a select number of …
Federal officials sentenced a Prospect, Ky. woman to 41 months imprisonment for one count of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky announced. Chief Judge John G. Heyburn II, also sentenced Gail Kubovchik, 57, …
Alaska is testing its tsunami warning system this week, and officials say they’re using the event to remind Anchorage residents they don’t have to worry. Kattaryna Stiles is acting director of the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management. She says it’s …
Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’ compensation because the officer’s employment rules required him …
Experts say the death of 6-year-old Abigail Taylor from the injuries she suffered in a swimming pool accident probably means the targets of a lawsuit will pay less in damages. Abigail died last week, nine months after she sat on …
Forecasters issued flash-flood warnings for parts of Arkansas’ prairie as the state’s largest water surge in a quarter-century continued its way downstream. Swollen by last week’s storms that devastated large parts of the Midwest, the fast-rising White River had risen …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Imperial Sugar Company for various violations totaling $36,000 in penalties at its plant in Gramercy, La., company officials said. The alleged violations included the use of three filter-cartridge dust collectors that were …