NJ submits filing for 3.9% decrease in rates
- The New Jersey Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau submitted a filing to the Department of Banking and Insurance seeking a 3.9% decrease in the overall premium and rate level effective January 1, 2024.
- The proposed revision is based on the most recent experience and a review of classification relativity. Additionally, the filing proposed several Manual amendments and changes to experience and retrospective rating values. If approved, this would be the ninth year in a row without an increase.
- The Bureau anticipates that revised rates and Manual amendments will be issued in a timely manner for the orderly preparation of new and renewal policies effective on and after January 1, 2024.
- Any policy to become effective on or after January 1, 2024 which is prepared and issued prior to the release of the new rates should include the Pending Rate Change Endorsement and, where applicable, the Experience Rating Modification Factor Endorsement.
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Firefighter wins workers’ comp benefits after PTSD
- A firefighter who worked for the city of Frisco, Texasm for 27 years, was fired while on medical leave and won his workers’ compensation case before the Texas Department of Insurance.
- The city must pay accrued unpaid income with interest, according to the Frisco Fire Fighters Association.
- The man was undergoing treatment for long-term post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition he has been dealing with since 2020 and has been getting medical help for.
- The man refused to retire and went through the appeals process.
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Police sergeant sues for workers’ comp
- A Boise police sergeant filed a lawsuit against the City of Boise and his former boss.
- Both lawsuits stem from an October 2021 briefing when Lee demonstrated a neck hold on Rush. Rush filed a tort claim regarding the situation last spring.
- The claimant was injured in a work-related accident, he filed a workers’ compensation claim with the city, which has been settled.
- The sergeant received the medical and other benefits to which he is entitled, and the city is willing to pay for any other medical claims associated with his injury in the future.
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Update on Kentucky mining case
- The Kentucky Supreme Court addressed when a workers’ comp claimant should notify the employer of an impending coal worker’s pneumoconiosis claim.
- This issue involves where the claimant was previously diagnosed with the illness and concluded a prior claim against a different prior employer.
- In 2019, an injured miner filed a new workers’ comp claim against a new employer where he was last exposed to coal dust.
- An administrative law judge, relying on Kentucky statute KRS 342.316 dismissed the claim, determining that the miner failed to give the new employer timely notice because the diagnosis was received prior to the 2005 settlement.
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