Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. announced Thursday it has named Douglas Anderson leader of Global Risk Solutions North America, Workers Compensation Claims. Based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Mr. Anderson replaces Virna Alexander, who was recently named Liberty Mutual’s chief claims officer of Global Risk Solutions North America. Mr. Anderson, who has worked for Liberty Mutual for …
Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday announced that businesses in Connecticut will pay on average 9.8% less in workers compensation insurance beginning on Jan. 1, 2024. This is the 10th consecutive year that the department has approved rate decreases for the voluntary market, according to a statement. The downward trend “reflects a noticeable decline in workplace …
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday it cited a Texas manufacturing company for willfully exposing workers to the risks of amputation and permanent hearing loss. OSHA cited El Paso-based Dynamic Tool Co. Inc. for two willful safety violations, one willful health violation and 58 other serious violations, and proposed $596,221 in penalties, …
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration faces “significant challenges in completing their mandates to ensure the protection of American workers’ safety and health,” says a report issued Wednesday by the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General that names OSHA among the top performance challenges for the department. The report said that the lapses …
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A workers compensation attorney acting as a claimant in a case against his law firm was entitled to recoup costs to purchase cannabidiol, or CBD, oil to treat his workplace injury, a Pennsylvania appellate court ruled Tuesday. The Commonwealth Court said the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board erred in overturning a comp judge’s decision permitting reimbursement. …
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CARLSBAD, California — Increasingly common in California are workers compensation claims involving cumulative trauma in which causation is questionable, the claim may have been filed after the injured worker is terminated or quits, and the claimant’s doctor later adds additional diagnoses. According to panelists at several sessions during last week’s annual Workers Compensation and Risk …
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A former Colorado contractor was sentenced Thursday in connection with the death of a worker who was caught in a trench collapse as he and others installed a sewer line at a residential construction site in November 2021 in Breckenridge. Peter Dillon, former owner of Avon-based A4S Construction LLC, was sentenced to 90 days in …
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Businesses in Florida will pay an average of 15.1% less in workers compensation insurance rates starting Jan. 1, 2024, Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky announced on Monday. Based on a rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, this is the seventh consecutive year of reduced rates for businesses, according to a statement issued …
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The average duration of temporary disability benefits in workers compensation lost-time claims increases with the age of the injured worker, but after age 40 the increase becomes less significant, the National Council on Compensation Insurance says in a report published Thursday. The report, Workers Compensation Temporary Disability Benefit Duration – A First Look, which …
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