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Quotas for Ohio BWC Investigators?

Former employees with the Special Investigations Department at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation say SID has a quota system, and investigators are pressured to make cases, even when people may be innocent. Read More

Preventing Double Recovery for Multiple Injuries in Work Comp

For claimants who have multiple workers' compensation claims, the North Carolina Workers' Compensation Act prevents concurrent receipt of disability benefits. Read More

Using RICO to Make Workers' Compensation Cases

By bringing a case under RICO, plaintiffs can seek treble damages and attorney's fees and ask for a jury trial, things they would not be entitled to under most workers' compensation statutes. Read More 

Combating Adverse Selection in Workers' Compensation

Adverse selection is a particularly dangerous threat because it is both silent and deadly to a portfolio, and only recognizable after the damage has been done. Read More

Oklahoma AG Says Work Comp Deliberations Must be Public

Oklahoma's Attorney General says the state's Workers Compensation Commission must deliberate cases in public, dashing the hopes of two commission members. Read More

Nurses, Bus Drivers, Teachers Facing Violence on the Job

Workers in some industries say physical assaults on the job are increasing, and cutbacks in public services are a prime reason. Frustrated clients take their anger out on the nearest punching bag, the public employee. Read More

Florida OIR Tells NCCI 'Go Lower'

NCCI first proposed a 2.5 percent decrease in Florida's workers' compensation rates for 2015. Then a 3.3 percent decrease. Now Florida's insurance commissioner wants an even deeper cut, to 5.2 percent. Read More    

Texas Mutual Wants Full Freedom

It's bound to happen. Become big and successful, and people start fighting over you. Texas Mutual is the state's largest workers' compensation insurer with 40 percent of the market and a $2 billion surplus. Created by the state in 1991 and changed to a mutual in 2001, it now wants to cut its last formal ties to the state. Read More

WCI Briefs

To save you time, here's a sampling of workers' compensation and insurance news from around the country, each in 300 words or less. Read More

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