Plymouth,MN (WorkersCompensation.com) - Intact Insurance Group USA LLC (Intact), doing business under the brand name Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Highland Insurance Solutions ("Highland"), […]

Washington,DC ( WorkersCompensation.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has proposed nearly $1.2 million in civil penalties to M-Class Mining LLC, a Macedonia, Illinois, coal mine operator. MSHA cited the […]

San Francisco,CA ( WorkersCompensation.com) - The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) update of the Copy Service Schedule. The effective date of the updated regulations is July 15, […]

Los Angeles,CA (WorkersCompensation.com) — Gamlet Abramian, 47, of Porter Ranch was arraigned this week on felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation revealed he allegedly underreported payroll for businesses in […]

Chicago,IL (WorkersCompensation.com) — Attorney General Kwame Raoul today led a coalition of 15 attorneys general in submitting an amicus brief defending states’ authority to protect workers from retaliation. A lawsuit filed in 2021 by New […]

Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employer seeking to establish a breakdown in the interactive process better be ready to establish that it was responsive to the worker’s accommodation request.  As the 11th U.S. Circuit Court […]

In 2018, I sustained an injury to my left hip. The injury resulted in five surgical procedures that summer, with a plethora of rehab on my road to recovery. While the physical process was painful […]

Cambridge,MA (WorkersCompensation.com) ― A new FlashReport from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) finds that in several states, payments for dermatological agents continued to increase, driven by increased dispensing of higher-priced drug products either from […]