California insurance brokerage and consulting firm AP Keenan named Bordan Darm and Scott Carpenter as public agency strategic benefits consultants for the Municipalities, Colleges, Schools

Injuries resulting from employer-mandated vaccinations against COVID-19 would be covered by workers’ compensation under a bill a panel of Idaho lawmakers passed Tuesday.

The move

Colorado workers’ compensation carrier Pinnacol Assurance announced that it is cutting rates and plans to distribute $40 million in dividend payments next year.

Pinnacol said

The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division adopted rules that will increase the fee paid to carriers for administering the Employer-at-Injury program by 50% next year.

Carriers

A telecom worker who failed to report outside employment after saying a slip-and-fall injury prevented him from working was ordered to pay $14,000 in restitution,