- Framing company cited for exposing employees to fall hazards
A Birmingham, Alabama-based structural framing company is facing $102,669 in proposed penalties for exposing workers to fall hazards.
- Comp reforms yield lower medical claims costs in some states: Study
Several states have seen decreases in medical payments per workers compensation claim after reform measures, according to a batch of new studies released Thursday by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute.
- Delaware workers comp rates to decline in December
Delaware’s workers compensation insurance rates will decrease effective Dec. 1, 2017.
- Off-duty California deputies who responded to Vegas shooting file comp claims
Four off-duty sheriff deputies from California have filed workers compensation claims after responding to the shooting in Las Vegas mass shooting on Oct. 1 and getting injured, the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs confirmed.
- Indiana approves 12.8% comp rate decrease
Most businesses in Indiana will spend less on workers compensation insurance in 2018 after the Indiana Department of Insurance on Friday approved a 12.8% rate decrease, which was proposed by the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau.
- Lyft faces lawsuit over workers comp fees
A Lyft driver in New York City filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday in his home state accusing the rideshare company of illegally deducting workers compensation fees from his and other drivers’ pay.
- Contractor cited for scaffold hazards at Philadelphia work site
New Jersey construction company owner Vyacheslav Leshko is facing $191,215 in proposed penalties for exposing workers to serious scaffold hazards at a job site in Philadelphia.
- Environmental services firm can contest OSHA citation after water-damage delay
The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission reversed an administrative law judge’s decision to deny relief to an environmental services company that failed to timely file a notice of contest to an OSHA citation.