Workers' Compensation News
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MLAC to Review Amendments to Presumption, Other Comp Bills | 03/31/2021 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee at a Friday hearing will review possible amendments to comp bills, including a proposal that would create a presumption that secondary effects of COVID-19 are compensable for some workers for the next three decades. ...Read More | |||
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Members of Former Self-Insurance Group Must Take Case Against WCB to Court of Claims | 03/31/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the members of a defunct group self-insurance trust had to pursue their breach of contract complaints against the Workers’ Compensation Board in the Court of Claims. ...Read More | |||
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Misclassification Task Force Adopts Two Recommendations, Disbands | 03/30/2021 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Louisiana Misclassification of Employees Task Force adopted two recommendations but left 10 more pending as it disbanded last week, according to a report by the ...Read More | |||
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MLAC Reviewing Comp Bills at Friday Meeting | 03/23/2021 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee will review a bill dealing with the definition of "covered" employee, and two measures calling for studies of the state’s comp system, during a Friday meeting. ...Read More | |||
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MLAC SB 489 Subcommittee Cancels Meeting | 03/19/2021 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A subcommittee of Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee canceled a meeting scheduled for Friday to discuss Senate Bill 489. ...Read More | |||
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MDGuidelines Announces Launch of Duration Analyzer Tool | 03/17/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| MDGuidelines on Tuesday announced the launch of a new tool it says will allow comparisons between short-term disability and workers’ compensation injury durations to a company’s population and physiological duration benchmarks. ...Read More | |||
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MLAC Subgroup Trying to Avoid Impasse on Bill to Change TD Authorization, Overpayments | 03/16/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Members of Oregon's Management-Labor Advisory Committee group tasked with tweaking a bill that would change restrictions on retroactive temporary disability and limit insurers’ ability to recoup wage-loss overpayments will meet for a second time Friday, two weeks after members failed to...Read More | |||
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Mishap on Loading Dock Doesn't Give Rise to Viable Labor Law Claim | 03/16/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker injured while unloading materials for a technology competition did not assert a viable Labor Law claim. ...Read More | |||
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Medical Payments in 2019 Clear $1.7B | 03/12/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation reported that medical payments in 2019 across nine categories of care provided to injured workers totaled more than $1.7 billion, up from $1.6 billion in 2018. ...Read More | |||
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MedRisk to Host Webinar on Vertebrogenic Low Back Pain | 03/10/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| MedRisk is hosting a free webinar March 24 to discuss a collaborative approach to treating chronic low back pain that focuses on combining physical therapy services with interventional pain management. ...Read More | |||
