The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a sheriff’s deputy is entitled to a presumption that his post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational disease since he presented a diagnosis of PTSD, even though his employer offered a competing diagnosis. The Carlton County deputy witnessed several deadly incidents in his career and following the suicide of his …
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Business Insurance 2022 Data & Rankings In this special data and rankings issue of Business Insurance, we bring you our proprietary rankings from the past year plus other industry data to present a numerical overview of the commercial insurance market, from retail brokers to reinsurers and cyber insurers to captive managers. Source …
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Alex Sun took the helm as CEO of San Diego-based Enlyte LLC in 2021, when it was formed through the merger of three companies in the workers compensation sector: Coventry Workers Comp Services, Genex Services LLC and Mitchell International Inc. Mr. Sun was formerly CEO of Mitchell, which he joined in 2001. Prior to that, …
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Changes among the insurance sector’s executive leaders drew plenty of interest throughout the year, but a story about senior management changes at Chubb Ltd.’s third-party administrator unit ESIS Inc. generated particular attention. In June, the insurer announced that Suresh Krishna would be chief operating officer of ESIS, moving over from Chubb’s North America accident and …
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Legal disputes over whether workers injured while traveling were due workers compensation benefits led to several significant rulings in the past year. In May, a Florida appeals court heard the case of a worker who was injured in an accident with a drunk driver while driving to work. The appeals court ruled that while the …
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In most states injuries suffered by employees in parking lots almost always call into question employer premises, coming and going rules, and whether a worker was in the course and scope of their job at the time. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy aimed to clarify matters on Jan. 10 by signing legislation that puts an …
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Fraud has long been a concern for the workers compensation sector but 2022 saw the industry and law enforcement in California fight back against the problem. One medical provider who felt the sharp end of the anti-fraud efforts was a surgeon in Beverly Hills, California, who received 10 years behind bars for comp fraud. Dr. …
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Unpopular among some Americans during the pandemic, mask mandates hit the courts several times and on several fronts over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a particularly notable case, nine flight attendants representing six airlines sued the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 24 over its air travel mask mandate, claiming …
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Vaccine mandates were a pandemic mainstay that made headlines early this year amid widespread efforts to force employees to get vaccinated. When California lawmakers on Feb. 9 introduced a bill that would require both public and private employers to enforce a vaccine mandate for employees, the article was the sixth most read workers compensation–related story …
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