Workers' Compensation News
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Lawmakers Bring Back Proposal to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Comp System | 01/13/2022 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New Jersey lawmakers once again have brought back a proposal to exclude undocumented immigrants from receiving workers’ compensation benefits for workplace injuries and illnesses. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Committee Passes Bill Allowing PTSD Claims for All Workers | 01/11/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The New York Senate Labor Committee on Monday voted 8-3 to pass a carryover bill that would allow all workers to file claims for post-traumatic stress disorder. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Resurrect Single-Payer Proposal | 01/10/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers resurrected a bill that would create a single-payer health care program for state residents that would defer to an advisory panel the question about how to handle occupational injuries. ...Read More | |||
| Lawmakers Consider COVID-19 Presumption | 01/05/2022 | ||
| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Lawmakers in Maryland are considering a workers’ compensation presumption for first responders, public safety employees and health care workers who have suffered a COVID-19 infection dating back to the beginning of the pandemic. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Cites Department of Corrections for Mask, Social Distancing Violations | 12/23/2021 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced that it fined the state Department of Corrections $60,000 for failing to enforce COVID-19 social distancing and mask procedures for workers at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen. ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Passes Parking Lot Coverage Bill; Assembly OKs Contractor Status for Caddies | 12/22/2021 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Legislature approved a measure that would define when accidents that occur in employer-provided parking lots are compensable under the state’s workers’ compensation law. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Propose PTSD Coverage for Probation, Correctional Workers | 12/21/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Probation and correctional workers in Florida would be entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder under a pair of bills introduced ahead of the 2022 legislative session. ...Read More | |||
| Lawmakers Aim to Tweak PTSD Presumption Bill | 12/16/2021 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Lawmakers in Florida are attempting to amend the state’s three-year-old post-traumatic stress disorder presumption in workers' compensation for first responders to clarify disease onset. ...Read More | |||
| Lawmakers Aim to Amend PTSD Presumption | 12/15/2021 | ||
| State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Wisconsin lawmakers are considering legislation that would amend the state’s current workers’ compensation presumption for post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by first responders. ...Read More | |||
| Lawmakers Consider Work Comp Bills | 12/14/2021 | ||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Jersey lawmakers are considering two workers’ compensation-related bills that would define the workday as that which begins in an employee parking lot and would permit injured workers under some conditions to be examined by their own physician. ...Read More | |||
