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A provision for the federal workers compensation program for nuclear workers, expanding the scope for toxic beryllium exposure, is set to be published in the federal register on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.

A top reinsurer is saying that despite a decade of extended profitability, the workers compensation reinsurance market in the United States could see a reversal due to a number of factors, according to an analysis released Saturday by Swiss Re Ltd.

A Florida appellate court ruled Friday that an employer should have been entitled to fully collect on its workers compensation lien because an injured worker failed to prove she didn’t receive full value from her injuries in a third-party settlement.

Artex Risk Solutions Inc., a unit of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., said Monday it has launched a protected cell company in Vermont.

Ratings agency A.M. Best Co. Inc. Friday downgraded the financial strength rating of New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal to B (Fair) from A- (Excellent).

A federal judge in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday granted a motion filed by an AssuredPartners Inc. unit against a former sales executive and two employees who now work for Alliant Insurance Services Inc.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Friday that it cited an Illinois construction contractor for a continued pattern of exposing workers to deadly fall hazards.

OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission calling for an investigation over the artificial intelligence company’s allegedly restrictive nondisclosure agreements, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine on Friday was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again cited a Texas steel plant operator for safety violations, the latest citation coming two years after the company was added to OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program.

Business Insurance is seeking responses for its 8th annual diversity, equity and inclusion survey of the insurance sector.

The number of private nonfatal injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, job transfer, or restriction was 1.8 million in 2022, a 40% reduction of that reported in 30 years prior, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

An insurer should have been entitled to reimbursement from the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund even though it had stopped issuing new workers comp insurance policies in the state in 2003, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled Thursday.

Hurricane Beryl caused between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion in insured wind-related losses in Texas, catastrophe modeling company CoreLogic Inc. said Thursday.