Workers' Compensation News
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School Bus Monitor Gets Benefits for Injuries From Being Jarred From Seat | 10/17/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a school bus monitor was entitled to benefits for her injuries from being jarred from her seat when the bus hit a bump in the road. ...Read More | |||
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Stakeholders Raise Questions About Volunteer Fire Departments' Self-Insurance | 10/16/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| When Pennsylvania lawmakers approved Act 46, setting up a cancer presumption for firefighters, many said they were doing the right thing for the brave men and women who put their lives on the line protecting people and property. ...Read More | |||
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Study Finds Shrinking Proportion of Low-Back Claims | 10/15/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Low-back pain may be losing ground as one of the top causes of workers’ comp claims, according to a new study that found lower-back injuries accounted for 15.4% of lost-time claims in 2015, compared to 22% in 2008. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Rejects Employer's Challenge to Non-Final Order | 10/12/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that an employer could not challenge a trial judge’s order remanding a worker’s claim for consideration, since the order was not an appealable final ruling. ...Read More | |||
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Surveillance Video of Worker Provided Sufficient Basis for Forfeiture of Benefits | 10/12/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that inconsistencies between a worker’s reported limitations and his activities captured on a surveillance video were sufficient to support a forfeiture of his entitlement to benefits. ...Read More | |||
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State Gets Another Rate Decrease, but Supreme Court Case Looms | 10/10/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: KS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Kansas officials are celebrating a fifth straight workers’ compensation rate decrease, but worker advocates are reminding them that the outlook could soon change with a looming state Supreme Court decision. ...Read More | |||
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State Gets $2.5 Million for Return-to-Work Program | 10/10/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Kentucky is the latest state to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, part of a new focus on returning injured workers to the job quickly, when opportunity for improvement is the greatest. ...Read More | |||
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Study Shows Chiros Focusing on 'Easy' Lower-Back Exams | 10/09/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A study by the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation draws a bold line under a concern that physicians have had for years: The designated doctor program has tilted heavily toward chiropractors and away from medical doctors. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Denies Benefits to Worker for Alleged Injury | 10/09/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided New York appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to benefits for a injury she allegedly sustained while scanning her employer-provided parking pass to enter a public parking garage at her workplace. ...Read More | |||
| SunPoint Assumes CUNA Mutual's Runoff Portfolio | 10/09/2018 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| SunPoint Holdings Ltd., through its wholly owned subsidiary SunPoint Reinsurance Ltd., has assumed a runoff portfolio of workers’ compensation liabilities from CUNA Mutual Group. CUNA, a Wisconsin-based insurance group, provides financial services to credit unions across the U....Read More | |||
