rate rankings |
50 State & D.C. Workers' Comp Rate Rankings: Latest Biennial Study Released. The Oregon Dept. of Consumer and Business Services released its biennial study on national workers' compensation premium rates. Based on rates in effect January 1, 2012, the top 10 states with the highest workers' compensation premium rates in the nation are:
1. Alaska 6. Oklahoma
2. Connecticut 7. New Jersey
3. California 8. Montana
4. Illinois 9. New Hampshire
5. New York 10. Maine
The state with the lowest workers' compensation premium rate is North Dakota. To find your state ranking, read the report summary. Scroll a state map here. |
Larson's on adequate recovery |

Exclusive Remedy Defense Stands In Spite of Less than "Adequate" Recovery, by Thomas A. Robinson. Distinguishing an earlier decision by the state's supreme court that had held that an injured worker could proceed, at least in limited circumstances, against the employer where the workers' compensation act failed to provide "an adequate" remedy, an Iowa appellate court, quoting Larson's, recently held that an estate of a deceased worker could not proceed against the employer on the grounds that its recovery was not adequate...Read more about this case and other cases on Co-Employee Exclusivity, Psychiatric Condition, and Violation of Safety Rule. |