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New Emergency Workers’ Compensation Rules Take Effect

The Department of Insurance has approved emergency workers’ compensation rules dealing with COVID-19 and California employers. The rules were recommended by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...

Protecting Your Firm from Employee Benefit Lawsuits

Employment practices and employee benefit-related lawsuits are on the rise — and employers have to be eternally vigilant when it comes to meeting their compliance...

New Telecommuter Class Code in the Works

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California’s workers’ compensation rating agency plans to implement a new class code for telecommuting employees on Jan. 1, 2021. The...

Nation’s First Workplace Safety Pandemic Standard Being Implemented

Virginia is on the cusp of creating the nation’s first pandemic workplace safety requirements for employers, a standard that many in the occupational safety and...

Attacks on Cloud Services Grow Amid Telecommuting Boom

As more of America’s workers were asked to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals jumped at the opportunity to take advantage,...

More Workers Filing COVID-19-related Lawsuits against Employers

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on and more employees go back to work, the risk of catching the disease for workers has spawned a growing...

Preventing Heat Illness as Summer Approaches

With temperatures rising, employers with outdoor workers need to take steps to protect them from heat illness. California employers need to be especially mindful as...

Insurance Costs Related to COVID-19 Could Top $100 billion

COVID-19-related losses for property-casualty insurers are likely to top $100 billion, with workers’ compensation accounting for about a third of all payouts, according to a...

OSHA Asks Employers to Investigate Worker COVID-19 Claims

COVID-19 and workplace safety has been a moving target for OSHA and it has released a number of advisories, including one in March that said...

What Business Insurance Policies Cover Rioting, Looting

As protests around the country descended into rioting and civil unrest, many businesses that have been looted, or seen their shops damaged or completely destroyed,...