Workers' Compensation News
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Symptoms Can't Be Compensable Conditions, but Worker Gets Award for Injuries | 11/06/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a grocery store employee's symptoms of pain could not be identified as compensable conditions, but it otherwise affirmed an award for her injuries from a fall. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Overturns Denial of Home-Care Worker's Claim for Unexplained Fall | 11/06/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Hampshire Supreme Court overturned the denial of a home-care worker’s claim based on her injures from an unexplained fall on the steps of a client’s garage. ...Read More | |||
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Suspended Provider Faces Charges in Separate Kickback Case | 11/02/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A provider who was suspended from California’s workers’ compensation system more than a year ago after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge is facing new fraud charges in Orange County. ...Read More | |||
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Second Injury Assessment to Increase as Prosthetic Costs Climb | 11/02/2018 | |
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| State: IN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Indiana Workers’ Compensation Board will have to increase the Second Injury Fund assessment paid by insurers and employers next year after spending more on benefits and prosthetic replacements than it took in, according to ...Read More | |||
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State Improves Speed of First Indemnity Payments, Study Shows | 10/31/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Criticized by stakeholders for a number of reasons in recent years, the New York Workers’ Compensation Board this week has something to brag about, according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute. ...Read More | |||
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Stivers, Two Others Submitted for WC Board | 10/31/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Workers' Compensation Nominating Committee has offered three names, including the incumbent, for the governor to consider for the Workers' Compensation Board, the state Labor Cabinet said Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Split Panel Affirms Apportionment in PTD Case | 10/30/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 3 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A split Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board panel ruled that a trial court judge did not make a mistake by apportioning part of a worker’s disability to a prior industrial injury when an agreed medical...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Bill Giving COLAs to Injured Public Safety Workers | 10/30/2018 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey state Senate on Monday approved a bill that provides for cost-of-living adjustments to permanent disability benefits paid to public safety workers injured on or after Jan. 1, 1980. ...Read More | |||
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Stephens Adds Four to Payroll | 10/30/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Stephens Insurance, an affiliate of Arkansas-based investment banking firm Stephens Inc., has hired Kevin Yandell, the longtime workers' compensation and property claims supervisor for the Texas Association of Counties. ...Read More | |||
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Striking Union Says Hotel Unwilling to Provide Comp | 10/29/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California regulators are investigating a San Diego hotel after a striking union reported complaints, included an unwillingness to provide workers’ compensation coverage, that it says it received from replacement workers. ...Read More | |||
