by Kelia Scott | Dec 5, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
This past week the state Supreme Court of Florida ruled that the beneficiaries of an employee who was killed on the job could not collect the settlement from a tort judgment with his employer’s insurance company because of a workers’ comp exclusion policy in the...
by Kelia Scott | Dec 5, 2014 | Industry Insights, Workers' Comp News
Our president and CEO just participated in a Risk & Insurance roundtable for information technology leaders in work comp. The purpose of the roundtable, for Philadelphia’s leaders in technology, was to evaluate how technology is serving workers’ comp....
by Kelia Scott | Dec 3, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
A New York worker whose employer compensated her above what she should have been entitled to for her injury was allowed to keep her money when the state’s appellate court ruled that the employer could not be reimbursed for the extra money they had paid out. The...
by admin | Dec 3, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
There were 65,880 firefighters injured in the line of duty in 2013, that is a 5.1% decrease from 2012. Numbers were collected from the respondents to the 2013 NFPA survey for U.S. Fire Experience. Of the injuries that were reported 29,760 (45.2%) were caused because...
by Kelia Scott | Dec 2, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
In the latest biennial report from the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), it appears that fatalities are still pretty high even as rates go down and 5 percent of employees still have no coverage available to them in the case of an accident. Their medical...
