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NCCI Proposes Small Work Comp Rate Decrease for Florida

NCCI has asked the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to approve an overall average rate level decrease of 2.5% effective Jan. 1, 2015. Read More 

RI Cuts Administrative Assessment Rate for Work Comp Insurers

For the first time since 2003, workers' compensation insurers in Rhode Island will see their administrative assessment rate cut for FY2015, albeit only slightly. Read More 

Employment, Growth Bring Rise in Work Comp Benefits, Costs in 2012

The National Academy of Social Science reports that despite an uptick in total workers' compensation benefits and costs in 2012, those benefits and costs per $100 of covered payroll were lower in 2007 to 2012 than at any time over the last three decades. Read More

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WCIRB: Written Premiums Up 13%

California Workers' Compensation Rating Bureau's Q1 2014 report says written premiums are up 13% over Q1 2013. What else went up, down? Read More

Hobby Lobby Plays 'I Spy'

Hobby Lobby had an injured worker followed by investigators who tried to put a GPS tracking device on his car after he made a workers' compensation claim, the man says. Read More

Can Medical Marijuana Reduce Prescription Drug Deaths?

For those who predict that legalizing medical marijuana is a slippery slope to more addiction and drug deaths, here's some food for thought. Read More

FedEx Gets Bad News Delivery

FedEx misclassified more than 3,000 delivery drivers in California and Oregon as independent contractors rather than employees, the 9th Circuit ruled. FedEx says it didn't do that, and won't do it again. Read More

Undocumented Workers: Trading Safety for a Salary in Philly

If an undocumented worker is injured or killed on the job, he is entitled to the same rights as his American-born colleagues. The tricky part is exercising those rights. The "underground economy" in the Philadelphia area is a case in point. Read More

Labor Day: A Celebration of the American Worker