Workers Compensation Press Updates

NCCI Holdings Inc. is seeking a 6.1% increase in workers compensation rates paid by Florida employers, the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation announced Thursday.

The Washington Redskins must pay workers compensation benefits for a former punter who suffered a back injury while warming up for a game, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

California workers compensation insurers’ medical, indemnity and administrative expenses reached $12.48 billion for calendar year 2011, up from $11.2 billion the prior year, according to a California Workers’ Compensation Institute bulletin.

The wife of a California worker cannot pursue a tort claim against his employer for injuries that prevented him from performing “necessary duties as a husband,” the California Supreme Court said Monday.

A class action lawsuit that, if successful, could end up paying more than $1 billion to employers who believe they overpaid for workers’ compensation insurance opened Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

(Reuters)—Insurer Aetna Inc. said it will buy rival Coventry Health Care Inc. for $5.6 billion in cash and stock to boost its share of government business and benefit from U.S. health care reforms.