workers’ compensation News
Workers Comp InsurTech Pie Raises $127M With Plan to Acquire Carriers
Workers compensation provider Pie Insurance announced the closing of $127 million in new financing and capital commitments. Gallatin Point Capital joined the InsurTech's current investors in the ...
Holistic Workers Comp: Moving Beyond the Physical
For too many workers, the effects of injuries do not end when their physical harm is healed and they get back to their jobs. What begins as a work injury too often ends up leading to deep and ...
U.S. Employers Veer Away From Coronavirus ‘Immunity Tests’ as They Prepare to Reopen
U.S. employers have cooled to the idea of testing workers for possible immunity to the coronavirus as they prepare to reopen factories and other workplaces. Blood tests that check for antibodies to ...
Federal Lawmakers Propose Heroes Compensation Act For Essential Worker Comp
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers unveiled a plan on Thursday to compensate essential workers who fall sick of die from COVID-19, modeling the Pandemic Heroes Compensation Act after the ...
COVID-19 Fallout: Pressure Grows for Workers Comp Federal Backstop
An executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week is the most aggressive yet among the directives issued by 13 states that require workers compensation insurers to pay at least some ...
NCCI: Modest COVID-19 Infection Rates Will Still Be Costly
If only 10 percent of health care workers contract COVID-19 and all of their claims are deemed compensable, workers' compensation loss costs for that sector could double or even triple in some ...
Pandemic to Change Future of Workers Comp, Personal Auto: Forrester
The global COVID-19 pandemic "will change the insurance industry irrevocably over the coming decade," says a new report from Forrester, with some of the biggest impacts hitting workers compensation ...
States Increasingly Expand Workers Comp Eligibility in COVID-19 Cases
Sympathetic state lawmakers and regulators in states both red and blue promise to make COVID-19 a major cost driver for workers' compensation insurers. The governors of Kentucky, Arkansas, North ...