Freight Broker Sues Liberty Mutual for ‘Excessive’ Work Comp Premiums July 26, 2022 By Claims Journal staff An Illinois freight broker has filed a lawsuit accusing Liberty Mutual of overcharging it by demanding payment of workers’ compensation...
Subrogating Shifting and Falling Cargo Cases July 5, 2022 By By Gary L. Wickert We see more than our fair share of subrogation cases involving work-related injuries caused by shifting and falling cargo. If...
Claims Business: Duck Creek, CSAA, Verisk and Davies June 30, 2022 By Claims Journal staff Duck Creek Offering ODG Treatment Guidelines Duck Creek Technologies is integrating commercial treatment guidelines commonly used for workers’ compensation and...
Opinion from Out-of-State Disability Rating Experts Inadmissible in Kentucky June 28, 2022 By Jim Sams Dr. Christopher Brigham website is not making an overstatement when it describes him as “one of the nation’s leading authorities...
US Supreme Court Declines to Review Minn. Ruling on Marijuana Use in Workers Comp June 22, 2022 By Jim Sams The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a pair of decisions by the Minnesota Supreme Court that held...
Claims Business: Insight Risk, ClaimBender and Latitude Subrogation June 13, 2022 By Claims Journal staff New MGA Peddling Water Loss Sensors A New York City-based managing general agent is bundling builders risk insurance policies with...
Milliman: Black-Lung Liabilities Top $9 Billion as Coal Industry Shrinks June 9, 2022 By William Rabb The U.S. coal industry may be shrinking rapidly as the country shifts to renewable energy, but insurers’ and self-insured companies’...
Iowa Supreme Reverses, Finds 911 Dispatcher’s PTSD Claim Compensable June 6, 2022 By Jim Sams The 911 dispatch center that employed Mandy Tripp denied her workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress syndrome because fielding calls...
4 Workers Hurt when Boston Subway Trains Collide June 3, 2022 BOSTON (AP) — The Boston subway system continued to experience service disruptions on Thursday morning following a crash Wednesday night...
Okla. Supreme: Tort Reform Law Allows Lawsuit Against Employer June 2, 2022 By Jim Sams Jerry Harwood couldn’t collect workers’ compensation benefits after he was paralyzed when he was struck by a car while trying...