Workers' Comp

During his Lets Get to Work campaign, Rick Scott said he wanted to reduce workers compensation rates by 35 percent. What is far less clear is whether the Legislature shares his appetite for these cuts and other significant workers compensation reform.

The attempt to stop insurers from communicating with their consumers restricts lawful commercial speech.

Almost one hundred years ago, on May 3, 1911, Wisconsin Gov. Francis E. McGovern (1911-15) signed America's first constitutional workers' compensation law.

As we close out 2010, let's review some of the more outrageous workers' compensation cases of the year, as compiled on a blog at the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.

Health care reform legislation is expected to have some impact on workers' compensation costs, but those impacts should be gradual and reflected in normal ratemaking processes, Swiss Re said in a recent report.

Zero tolerance of drug use is the workplace norm in Arizona, but the medical-marijuana law that takes effect next year will cloud what had been a clear-cut issue for workers and employers.

Many personal injury law firms advertise using negative inferences about the insurance business. What is the ethical response for insurers?

Desperate acts by people who normally would not think of committing insurance fraud have drawn attention to the problem, but are relatively rare compared with the everyday deliberate fraud that takes place across the country.