Travelers Cos. Inc. was the largest workers compensation insurer in the nation last year, followed by Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and American International Group Inc.

A man in Washington state has been charged with faking work-related injuries and using the last names of Seattle Seahawks players to obtain opioids and other drugs, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries said.

An Alabama worker with preexisting arthritis is entitled to workers compensation benefits, but not knee replacement surgery, the Alabama Court of Appeals has ruled.

A focus on “deliberate underwriting actions and solid investment results” boosted profits and premiums in 2014 for Liberty Mutual Holding Co., though the insurer’s workers compensation business declined last year.

Private employers in Ohio will see a 10.8% workers compensation rate decrease as of July 1, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation said.

Workers compensation is the exclusive remedy for a permanently disabled worker and his wife who allege that an insurer and its claims administrator delayed, discouraged and denied benefits for 10 years, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled.