Workers' Compensation News
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WCIRB Approves Recommendation for 0.9% Rate Increase | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee on Wednesday voted for a fifth consecutive time to recommend that the California insurance commissioner increase the advisory pure premium rate. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Must Attend IME, Sign Informed Consent Document | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that an employer could compel an injured worker to attend an independent medical evaluation and to sign the provider’s “informed consent” document, but the claimant did not need to complete any other paperwork. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Must Pay Enhanced Award for Violation of Specific Safety Requirement | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld an enhanced award of benefits to an injured worker, finding his employer’s violation of a specific safety requirement for hydraulic presses was the proximate cause of the accident. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds $15 Million Damage Verdict for Seaman's Death | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a $15 million award of damages on a Jones Act claim for a 22-year-old seaman’s death. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Establish Total Disability From Combined Mental, Physical Injuries | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker was not entitled to a finding of total disability for her mental and physical injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Bill Creating Self-Insurers' Guaranty Association | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill creating a guaranty association to step in and pay workers’ compensation benefits because of the insolvency of a self-insured employer. ...Read More | |||
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Pair Accused of Cashing Dead Woman's Comp Checks | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Prosecutors in southeastern New York announced that two people were arrested and charged with grand larceny and insurance fraud for allegedly cashing workers’ compensation checks sent to one of the suspect’s dead mother. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Summary Dismissal of Worker's Claims for Retaliation, Emotional Distress | 04/17/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s civil case against his former employer, finding his claims for retaliation and the negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress all failed as a matter of law. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Worker Should Have Been Denied Leave to File Late Claim | 04/17/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should not have been granted permission to belatedly file civil claims against municipal entities for his alleged injuries from a construction site accident. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Did Not Err in Declining to Issue Jury Interrogatories Proposed by Employer | 04/17/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld a jury’s determination that a worker was entitled to expand the scope of his workers’ compensation claim, finding no error in the trial judge’s decision not to issue the interrogatories proposed by the employer. ...Read More | |||
