The articles below contain information relating to the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Industry. This includes workers’ comp insurers, premium information, information for employers, and the most common injuries. It also includes information about which professions are most often injured on the job.
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Ten Largest Workers’ Compensation Insurers in Maryland
Workers’ Compensation Insurance is big business. Many people think that workers’ compensation insurance is handled by the State of Maryland or the Workers’ Compensation Commission. Although MD does have a large regulatory role, and the WCC does play a large part in administration of claims, these two agencies are not the driving forces of workers’ [...]
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Hartford Workers’ Compensation Claims
Hartford is the largest workers’ compensation insurer in Maryland besides Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund. Hartford Fire and Casualty Group, as of 2008, had an 11.23% market share. Nationwide, Hartford is the fourth largest workers’ compensation insurer, according to their website. The Hartford’s largest business unit handling workers’ compensation in Maryland is Twin City Fire Insurance [...]
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Workers’ Compensation Act
The Workers’ Compensation Act The ultimate social philosophy behind the Workers’ Compensation Act is that is it wise to provide for a dignified, efficient form of protection to an injured worker for basic benefits rather than settling a dispute in court between two parties. The Maryland General Assembly first enacted the Workers’ Compensation Act in [...]
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Number of Workers’ Comp Claims Filed in Maryland
In Maryland, there has been a steady increase in the amount of workers compensation claims filed each year. In 2009, there were a total of 22,622 claims filed. There was a 1.7% increase in those numbers in 2010 when 23,003 claims were filed. Similarly, there was a 1.6% increase for the 2011 fiscal year with [...]
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Top Ten Most Common Workplace Injuries
Overexertion- This includes injuries related to pulling, lifting, pushing, holding, carrying, and throwing, this has consistently been the number one workplace injury. Slip or Trip and Falls- This mostly pertains to falls from wet or slippery floors. It also commonly covers elderly people slipping and falling due to snow covered pathways on their way to [...]
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What Jobs Have the Most Workers’ Comp Injuries?
What jobs have the most work related injuries? We are sometimes asked – which jobs produce the most workers comp injuries? We also sometimes get asked a very different but related question: What are the most dangerous jobs? It’s tough to answer the question: what are the most dangerous jobs? Who defines dangerous? What constitutes [...]
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Sedgwick Claims Management and Workers’ Comp
Sedgwick Claims Management Who is Sedgwick? Sedgwick CMS is a Third Party Administrator (TPA) that handles workers compensation, short & long term disability and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) claims for employers. As a TPA, Sedgwick manages workers compensation and disability claims, similar to an insurance adjuster, but is hired by your employer. What [...]
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2011 Annual Report Summary
Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission Annual Report 2011 Summary Highlights and Process Improvements: The Subsequent Injury Fund Assessment (LE § 9-806) & the Uninsured Employers’ Fund Assessment (LE § 9-1007) are billed by two separate funds as of July 1, 2011. Employers/ Insurers are required to pay the assessments to the two funds within thirty [...]
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The First Annual Top Maryland Firefighter Picture Awards!
In our job as workers’ compensation lawyers, we handle a great deal of public safety cases for law enforcement, firefighters, and other first responders. (We also represent the 2,600 members of the Maryland Troopers Association.) We are consistently impressed with their work. When we found a law clerk browsing pictures of Maryland firefighters on the [...]
