JUNE 14, 2021 - WORKCOMPWIRE Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced it will issue an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare workers from contracting coronavirus. The standard...

OCTOBER 15, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Oakland, CA – The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) is clarifying the application of the July 1, 2020 rule regarding the treatment of payroll for employees who continue to be paid while they do not...

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Sacramento, CA – Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed two bills as part of his worker protection package, SB 1159 by Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) and AB 685 by Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes (D-San Bernardino). SB 1159...

AUGUST 28, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Boca Raton, FL – NCCI released a new Insights brief on the impact of fee schedule updates on Hospital Outpatient Services (HOPs). As a cost control measure, and to ensure access to hospital services, some states have...

AUGUST 28, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Albany, NY – New York State’s largest workers’ compensation carrier – the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) recently announced the introduction of a new COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Premium Credit Program that...

AUGUST 27, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Oakland, CA – The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) recently submitted its January 1, 2021 Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI), proposing advisory pure premium...

AUGUST 21, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Boca Raton, FL – A newly released report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) highlights activity in more than 20 states to address workers compensation presumptions of compensability in response to the...

AUGUST 17, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Sacramento, CA – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra — alongside the City Attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco — today secured a preliminary injunction against unlawful employee misclassification by Uber and...

Oakland, CA – The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) Governing Committee recently voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a January 1, 2021 Advisory Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Insurance Commissioner. The filing will...

JULY 28, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Lansing, MI – With employers across the state working to keep their employees, customers and communities safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Michigan has launched Michigan COVID-19 Safety Grant Program. These grants will...

JULY 28, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Charleston, WV – The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), West Virginia’s rating and statistical agent, has filed a proposed workers’ compensation loss cost decrease of 8.3% effective November 1, 2020. This premium...

JULY 27, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Hartford, CT – Governor Ned Lamont recently announced that he has signed an executive order creating a rebuttable presumption that workers who contracted COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic contracted it on the job and are...

JULY 22, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Memphis, TN – The Sedgwick Institute recently released a new whitepaper on how the presumption of compensability has been applied in workers’ compensation and considerations in the wake of COVID-19. The paper includes the latest, most...

JULY 22, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Oakland, CA – The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) has released its 2021 Experience Modification Estimator for insurers, agents and brokers to help policyholders understand how payroll and claims...

JULY 20, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Richmond, VA – Governor Ralph Northam recently announced the adoption of statewide emergency workplace safety standards in response to the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. These first-in-the-nation safety rules will protect Virginia...

JULY 17, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Boca Raton, FL – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the nation, a number of questions remain. For the workers compensation industry, one question has to do with coverage for occupational groups such as healthcare workers and...

JUNE 2, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Boca Raton, FL – The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) hosted its Annual Issues Symposium 2020—AIS Virtual—on May 12. Addressing the most relevant issues for the workers compensation industry for nearly 3,000 attendees,...

APRIL 6, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim enforcement guidance to help combat supply shortages of disposable N95 filtering face piece respirators...

APRIL 6, 2020 - WORKCOMPWIRE Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim enforcement guidance to help combat supply shortages of disposable N95 filtering face piece respirators...

FEBRUARY 6, 2020 BY WORKCOMPWIRE Cambridge, MA – The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) recently announced that Dr. Michael Horrigan, president of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and former associate commissioner with the U.S....