Workers' Compensation News
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Worker Gets Benefits for Crash Despite Leaving Job Site Without Employer's Approval | 04/25/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court upheld an award of benefits to a worker for his injuries from a car accident that happened after he left a fire camp without his employer’s knowledge and in violation of its rules, and used marijuana. ...Read More | |||
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Newsom Says Indoor Heat Safety Rules Too Expensive for Prisons | 04/25/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Correctional officers and other workers are likely to be left out of the new indoor heat standards California workplace safety regulators are reportedly scrambling to implement before summer starts after a last-minute objection from the governor's office over the cost of bringing prisons into...Read More | |||
| Governor Signs Bill Allowing Electronic Cancellation Notices | 04/25/2024 | ||
| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Insurers will be allowed to send electronic cancellation notices to Oklahoma policyholders, under terms of a bill Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Wednesday. Stitt signed SB 1627, by Sen. Ally Sei...Read More | |||
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Notice of Intent to Contest Claim Must Be Delivered Within 28-Day Window | 04/25/2024 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a finding that an employer was precluded from contesting a worker’s claims for injury because the company did not timely file a notice of intent to do so. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Bill Prohibiting State From Forcing Workers to Quit as Settlement Condition | 04/25/2024 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Colorado Senate passed a bill that would prohibit the state from forcing its injured workers to quit as a condition of settling workers’ compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Labor Law Claim of Worker Who Fell Into Manhole | 04/25/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a worker’s Labor Law claim for injuries from falling into a manhole. Case: Clarke v. C...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Addresses Standard of Review, Burden of Proof for Apportionment | 04/25/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court produced four opinions addressing an employer’s entitlement to apportion a worker’s impairment, with a majority clarifying the appropriate standard of review of a board decision and then concluding that the employer failed to carry its burden of p...Read More | |||
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DWC Launches Portal for QME Reports | 04/24/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 3 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation on Tuesday announced the launch of a portal that it said it will use to monitor the quality of medical-legal reports. ...Read More | |||
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Appropriations Committee Places TD Bills on Suspense File | 04/24/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate Appropriations Committee put a temporary hold on two bills that would authorize temporary disability benefits for attending medical appointments and for successfully challenging the denial of a request for authorization. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Partial Dismissal of Worker's Trip-and-Fall Claim | 04/24/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of partial summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law claim for trip-and-fall injury at a construction site. ...Read More | |||
