Civilian Engineer’s Alleged Rape Aboard Navy Ship Ruled a Workers’ Comp Matter A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a civilian engineer with the Navy’s Military Sealift Command, after the Labor Department determined her alleged 2021 rape aboard the USNS Carson City by the ship’s captain must be handled as a Federal Employees’ Compensation […]

  What the Fifth Circuit’s OSHA Mental Health Ruling Means for Claims The Fifth Circuit’s finding that OSHA lacked congressional authorization to regulate mental health in the workplace doesn’t change workers’ compensation law directly, but it may strengthen employer arguments for denying mental health claims and could push states to revisit how they define compensable […]

  Court: Judges Cannot Skip Hearing Before Ruling on Comp Settlements The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed on Aug. 20 that a workers’ compensation judge erred by dismissing a $225,000 settlement between the University of Pennsylvania and an injured nurse without holding a required hearing on the agreement. The case began after the nurse hurt […]

  Texas licenses its first captive The Texas Captive Insurance Association licensed CART Assurance Company as its first captive insurer, a structure many businesses use to self-insure risks including workers’’ compensation, after the company successfully re-domiciled from Arizona to Texas and received the state’s first Certificate of Authority to operate as a captive. CART president […]

  NCCI Recommends 7.4% Cut to Florida Workers’ Comp Rates The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), Florida’s licensed rating organization, is recommending an average 7.4% reduction in workers’ compensation insurance rates beginning January 1, 2027, a proposal that goes to Florida’s insurance commissioner for final approval. The recommended cut is largely driven by a […]

  Court Upholds TTD Award for Worker Despite Being Cleared to Full Duty New Jersey’s Appellate Division affirmed an award of temporary total disability benefits to a former Costco employee who injured his right knee in January 2022 helping a customer lift a generator, even though his authorized surgeon, Dr. Daniel Richmond, had cleared him […]

  AI Workflow Coordination Can Improve Claims Handling: Report A new white paper, “Orchestrating Workers’ Compensation in the AI Era” from Sollers Consulting, Guidewire, and CLARA Analytics, argues AI delivers the most value in workers’ comp claims when embedded into coordinated operational workflows rather than deployed as standalone tools. The report identifies fragmentation — not […]

  Insurer Joins UPS Crash Lawsuit to Recover Benefits Paid to Victim’s Family Clear Path Insurance, which paid workers’ compensation benefits to the family of a woman killed in a November 2025 UPS flight crash, was allowed to join the lawsuit Monday as it seeks to recover the benefits it paid out. The woman was […]

  Ohio House Okays Workers’ Comp Bureau, Industrial Panel Budgets The Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 80 and House Bill 81, the biennial budgets for the Industrial Commission and the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation covering fiscal years 2026 and 2027, both funded through employer premiums and surcharges rather than general state revenue. […]

  State Doubles Disfigurement Award Caps, Hikes Weekly Benefits North Carolina House Bill 315, now Session Law 2026-14, was signed into law by Governor Josh Stein on June 22 and will double the maximum award for workplace related serious facial or head disfigurement from $20,000 to $40,000. The maximum award for loss of or permanent […]