Workers Compensation Press Updates

A former postal worker has likely concluded that demonstrating the use of fitness equipment while collecting disability payments is probably not a wise move.

White, non-Hispanic construction workers receive larger workers compensation settlements despite sustaining equivalent or lower disabilities than their black or Hispanic counterparts, new research concludes.

NCCI Holdings Inc. has requested a 7.1% increase in Connecticut’s advisory workers compensation rates for 2013, due largely to indemnity and medical costs that are “increasing faster than wages” in the state.