Workers Compensation Press Updates

The National Football League has filed a lawsuit alleging that nearly three dozen commercial general liability insurers refused to defend the organization against at least 143 lawsuits filed by former players.

The widow of an Illinois restaurant worker who was murdered by a co-worker cannot sue her husband’s employer for negligence because of exclusive remedy provisions for Illinois’ workers compensation law, a state appellate court says.

California’s Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will recommend a 12.6% average pure premium rate increase that would be effective Jan. 1, 2013, for new and renewing policies.

A workers compensation reform bill set to be proposed in California would limit some companies’ ability to self-insure for workers comp claims and would increase total permanent disability benefits for workers by $720 million per year, according to a…

Employers are facing increasing costs for workers compensation coverage, while insurance underwriters are less willing to offer guaranteed-cost policies, which cap an employer’s premiums regardless of adverse loss experience.

The National Health Service in Manchester, England, has banned a sharp metal instrument that has been impaling workers recently: the file fastener.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—NCCI Holdings Inc. has asked the Illinois Department of Insurance to consider a 3.8% decrease in advisory workers compensation rates for 2013, the department said in a statement Friday.