Workers' Compensation News
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Lidocaine Designated 'Exempt' in Formulary Update | 09/30/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced changes to the prescription drug formulary that will designate lidocaine as “exempt,” effective Nov. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Commissioner Cites Home Health Firms $1.8M for Misclassifying Workers | 09/29/2022 | |
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| The California Labor Commissioner’s Office fined home health care placement agencies $1.8 million for allegedly misclassifying 66 workers as independent contractors to save on wages, taxes and work comp insurance. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Cites Roofing Companies for Lack of Fall Protection | 09/26/2022 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries cited two roofing companies on its “severe violators” list for more than $1 million combined for not providing fall protection to employees working on top of homes. ...Read More | |||
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Livestock Transportation Broker Must Pay Benefits to Driver Attacked by Cow | 09/22/2022 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Idaho Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a self-described livestock transportation broker was the statutory employer of a driver injured while attempting to load a cow on a truck for delivery. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Proposes 4.8% Rate Hike | 09/21/2022 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries is proposing a 4.8% increase in the average price of workers’ compensation insurance for next year. ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Passes Bills to Cut Time to Decide Liability, Extend PTSD Presumption | 09/01/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers signed off on amendments to bills that cut two weeks from the time employers have to accept liability for certain presumptive injury claims, extend a COVID-19 presumption for another year and require brokers and agents to undergo training to identify insurance fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmaker Trims Year Off Proposed COVID-19 Presumption Extension | 08/29/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Presumptions that California lawmakers enacted in 2020 to help determine when COVID-19 arose from employment would remain in place for one more year instead of two, under a recently amended bill. ...Read More | |||
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Liability Determination Deadline Bill Amended to Require Appropriation for Data Collection | 08/25/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A requirement that the California Division of Workers’ Compensation revise its existing data collection processes to capture the date an injured worker is notified of a liability determination would be contingent upon a legislative appropriation, under a recently amended bill. ...Read More | |||
| Lawmaker Proposes Adding Former Firefighters to Presumption Law | 08/19/2022 | ||
| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Michigan lawmakers may add former firefighters as qualified recipients for benefits under the state’s 2014 firefighter cancer presumption law, less than one year after lawmakers made volunteer firefighters eligible. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Reports Glitch Fixed in Work Comp Campus | 08/17/2022 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that it fixed a glitch in its electronic claims management system that was rejecting transactions. ...Read More | |||
