Quote of the day
“We are excited. Our investment income is very strong this year and the truth is we’re in a positive financial position that it allows us to return this money to policyholders and we wanted to let them know as quickly as possible. It allows businesses to understand their workers’ comp costs and to plan accordingly.”
Jennifer Vargen, State Fund’s executive vice president of public affairs
Flash: State Fund Renews Dividends With Mid-Year Declaration
After a five-year hiatus, State Fund is again going to pay a dividend to its insured. How much, who is eligible and when will you see the money? We’ve got the details. Click here. Workers’ Comp Executive
Illinois: Geneva approves workers’ comp settlement to lineman
Geneva, Illinois aldermen unanimously approved a $57,500 workers’ compensation claim for an electric department employee, who injured his left shoulder pulling wire and opening transformers in early 2018 and could not return to work for 14 weeks. Kane County Chronicle
Maintenance staff at Mississippi Air Force base allege dangerous chemical exposures
Some maintenance workers at an Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi claim exposure to hazardous materials has made them ill, and that they were either ignored or caught up in a bureaucracy after reporting it as long as 10 years ago. The workers have been exposed to hexavalent chromium, lead, strontium chromate, and methalyene chloride, all dangerous substances, according to official documents. Jackson Clarion Ledger
Suburban Philadelphia factory owner fined $1M for retaliatory firings
A federal district court judge earlier this month ruled that the owner of a Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania factory retaliated against two of his factory employees, including the plant manager, when he fired them after they cooperated with federal safety inspectors. At the time of the firings, the factory was being investigated for an accident that caused parts of three fingers of a worker to be “crunched off” by a steel-bending press. Philadelphia Inquirer