A Texas appeals court upheld a jury’s finding that workers’ compensation death benefits must be awarded in the case of a man whose hydrocodone overdose was tied to an workplace injury.

The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill in its waning hours April 9 that renames and repositions the Injured Workers Insurance Fund as a private company.

A federal judge in Illinois approved a $450 million settlement to resolve the under-reporting of American International Group’s (AIG) market share in the workers’ compensation market.

A supervisor with the Pennsylvania State Workman’s Insurance Fund is accused of bribery for allegedly taking at least 15 kickbacks.

California’s insurance regulators are challenging two insurance companies for using “large deductible agreements” on workers’ compensation cases without their approval.

Pennsylvania’s auditor general said the state’s largest workers’ compensation carrier failed to hold a contractor who received nearly $4.9 million over two years accountable for the terms of the contract.

An Austintown, Ohio, man must repay more than $27,000 in workers’ compensation payments he received illegally.

The rapper and hip hop mogul Jay-Z has been freed of an $18,000 workers’ compensation judgment in New York.

A Pittsburgh, Pa.-based health care network filed an application with the state to launch a new domestic company that would write workers’ compensation insurance policies.

A Wake Forest, N.C., man pleaded guilty Nov. 29 to his role in a $2.7 million workers’ compensation scheme, according to Florida insurance regulators.