Workers' Compensation News
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Employers Oppose Proposal to Eliminate Marital Status From Benefit Calculation | 01/19/2022 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Representatives for employers in Washington said that while they agree that the state’s rules for calculating indemnity benefits could stand revision, they don’t support a proposal that would address only differences in awards based on whether an injured worker is married. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Get Credit Against Benefits for CARES Act Compensation Paid to Worker | 01/12/2022 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that an employer was not entitled to a credit against its payment of benefits to an injured employee for the federal pandemic benefits she had received. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Fails to Prove Worker's Allowed Claim for Aggravation Had Abated | 01/11/2022 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld the Industrial Commission’s determination that a worker’s allowed claim based on the aggravation of a preexisting arachnoid cyst had not yet abated. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Penalized for Failure to Authorize Surgery, Pay TTD | 12/28/2021 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that an employer was properly penalized for its failure to authorize a second surgery for an injured worker or pay temporary total disability benefits while she was unable to work. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Provision Doesn't Bar Worker's Suit Against Nursing Home | 12/15/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Compensation Law did not bar a worker’s suit against a nursing home for her injuries in a fall. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Bars Worker's Suit for Carrier's Alleged Mishandling of Claim | 12/02/2021 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld the summary dismissal of a worker’s claims against his former employer’s insurance carrier for the alleged mishandling of his workers’ compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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Early COVID Decisions Provide Blueprint for Rebutting Presumption, Attorneys Say | 11/23/2021 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The first two decisions from arbitrators suggest Illinois employers can rebut the presumption that COVID-19 is compensable by providing some concrete evidence of efforts to mitigate spread of the disease, according to workers’ compensation defense attorneys who spoke during a webinar Monday...Read More | |||
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Employer Can Apportion Liability for Worker's Benefits to Special Fund Division | 11/19/2021 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a school district was entitled to apportionment of an injured employee’s benefits, since he credibly testified that his employer had hired him knowing he had preexisting disabilities. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Beats Wrongful Termination Claim, Gets Award of Costs | 11/15/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that an employer was entitled to an award of costs, but not attorney fees, after its former employee rejected a pretrial offer to settle his wrongful termination claim and then lost the case. ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Commissioner Gets 7-Year Sentence for Fraud, Money Laundering | 10/14/2021 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was sentenced to seven years in prison following his conviction on 37 counts of fraud and money laundering through a high-risk property insurance association he managed. ...Read More | |||
