Once an insurance carrier is notified of a work injury, it is required by law to promptly investigate the injury and determine whether the claim is compensable within 21 days under Section 406.1 of ...

Workers’ compensation stress claims can be, well, stressful. Both the employee who has filed the claim and the employer who must handle it experience frustrations. Also, stress claims (also called ...

Workers' compensation insurance, required by law in all states but Texas, provides benefits to employees who are injured at work. As workers' comp fraud grows, both employers and legitimately injured ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Terra, the cloud-native platform redefining Workers’ Compensation software, announced the launch of its AI-powered Note Summarization feature, ...

Workers’ compensation claims are costly and can drag on for years. The average cost of a lost time claim (indemnity and medical only) in California has increased from $54,712 in 2018 to $58,843 in ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Nearly all businesses with employees are required to have workers’ compensation insurance. Workers’ comp covers medical expenses and lost wages when employees are injured on the job or develop a ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gradient AI, a leading enterprise software provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the insurance industry, and Duck Creek Technologies, a leading technology ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Workers' Compensation Benchmarking Study, the industry's largest claims management research initiative, has opened its 13th annual survey, inviting claims ...