WCRI: States Without Work Comp Fee Schedules Paying the Price May 17, 2019 By Jim Sams The dwindling number of states that have no fee schedule, or that set fees according to a percentage of billed...
P&C Reserves Improved Last Year, Pushed by Workers’ Comp May 7, 2019 By Jim Sams Separate reports by financial analysts concluded that property and casualty carriers improved the condition of their claim reserves in 2018,...
Workers’ Comp Claims in Colorado’s Cannabis Industry Not as High as You Think April 26, 2019 It’s a safe bet that there are a number of those among us who envision workers in the marijuana industry...
CompScope Report Highlights Tenn. and Texas Reforms, Fla. Court Rulings April 24, 2019 By Jim Sams Tennessee moved from the low end to the very low end of total workers’ compensation claim costs after passage of...
Injury Rates Still Dropping Even as Older Workers Take Larger Share of Workforce April 23, 2019 By Jim Sams The number of workplace injury claims continues to decline year after year despite significant changes in workforce demographics that one...
KEMI Board Votes to Cut CEO’s Pay Following Critical Audit April 22, 2019 LEXINGTON, Ky. — The governing board of Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance has recommended that its chief executive take a pay...
Work Comp Fraudster Must Repay $246K, Spend Seven Months in Prison March 15, 2019 A Cleveland-area man was sentenced to seven months in prison Wednesday and ordered to repay nearly $246,000 in disability benefits...
Attorney Turned Criminal Apologizes to Insurers for Giant Workers’ Comp Fraud March 7, 2019 By Jim Sams Sean Enrique O’Keefe said he started out as a “humanistic attorney,” but he became a mercenary and then a criminal...
Do High Health Plan Deductibles Lead to More Workers’ Compensation Claims? February 20, 2019 Are employees injured at work more likely to file under workers’ compensation instead of group health insurance when their group...
Texas Eyes Penalties for Denying Responders’ Workers’ Compensation Claims February 19, 2019 A bill recently filed in the Texas House of Representatives would penalize insurers that illegally deny Texas first responders access...