Workers' Compensation News
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Split Supreme Court Specifies Evidentiary Burdens in Firefighter Cancer Presumption Cases | 10/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week reduced the onerous burden of proof that the Commonwealth Court had placed on firefighters suffering from cancer who sought benefits for their illness. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Committee Approves COLA for Public Safety Officers | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that would provide cost-of-living adjustments for public safety workers' permanent disability and death claims has passed a second state Senate committee and is on its way to the floor. ...Read More | |||
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Subcontractor's Failure to Secure Comp Coverage Defeats Claim for Payment for Services | 10/18/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that a subcontractor’s failure to secure workers’ compensation insurance coverage for its employees was fatal to its claim for additional payment for its work. ...Read More | |||
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Stakeholders Say 6th-Place Cost Ranking Obscures Efficiency of System | 10/18/2018 | |
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| By: Eddie Curran (correspondent) | |||
| State: GA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Georgia workers’ comp administrators were put on the defensive by the latest workers’ comp premium cost survey by Oregon regulators, which showed the Peach State shooting from 27th...Read More | |||
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Scheme Billed State Insurance Programs $50M for Pain and Libido Creams | 10/18/2018 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Cedar Run, New Jersey, woman pleaded guilty this week to defrauding insurance programs by submitting false claims for compounded creams, pain medications and even libido drugs. ...Read More | |||
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SAIF Kicks Off Agricultural Safety Training | 10/17/2018 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon’s SAIF Corp. is launching its annual agricultural safety training program at the end of October with the first of 28 seminars that will run through March. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
