Workers' Compensation News
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Video Surveillance Leads to Fraud Charge against former Postal Worker and Wife | 03/13/2015 | |
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| A former postal worker and his wife are charged in a three-count indictment with defrauding the federal government to obtain workers' compensation and Veteran's Administration benefits, according to a report in the Buffalo News Thursday. ...Read More | |||
| Video Footage of Worker Playing with Dog Prompts Forfeiture of Benefits | 02/20/2015 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the termination of a worker's entitlement to benefits after she was caught on tape walking and carrying her dog, which belied her representations as to her physical limitations from her industrial injury. Case: Matter of Hershewsky v. Community Genera...Read More | |||
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Veteran Chief Judge Retiring from Comp Bench | 02/12/2015 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Judge Peter Calderone ...Read More | |||
| Veteran Firefighter Was Entitled to Presumption of Industrial Causation for His Cancer | 01/26/2015 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that a veteran firefighter was entitled to benefit from a statutory presumption of industrial causation for his cancer, even though he had left the department before the statute took effect. Case: Di Luzio v. City of Santa Fe, No. 33,446, 01/14/2015, ...Read More | |||
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Videotape of School Cook's Shopping Trip Leads to Fraud Charges | 01/09/2015 | |
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VP of HR Implicated in Firing of Plotkin Resigns from SAIF | 12/03/2014 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| SAIF Corp. Human Resources Director Ryan Fleming, who was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed after the sudden firing of the carrier's chief executive officer last May, has resigned, the carrier confirmed Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Veteran Workers' Compensation Lawyer Thomas Nyhan Has Died | 11/19/2014 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Thomas D. Nyhan, a workers' compensation defense attorney who founded the Nyhan, Bambrick, Kinzie & Lowry law firm in Chicago, has died. He was 85. Nyhan, a U.S. Navy veteran, began his legal career in Chicago in the late 1950s. Before founding his own firm, he was enlis...Read More | |||
| VWC Posts Rejection of Coverage Form | 11/05/2014 | ||
| Source: Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission | |||
| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission has posted Form 16A, its Rejection of Coverage form, on its website. An executive officer of a company or their agent can file a Rejection of Coverage form to exclude himself or herself from coverage for injury or death by accident, but ...Read More | |||
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Vollbrecht Appointed as SORM's New Executive Director | 10/31/2014 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Vollbrecht (image via SORM) The boar...Read More | |||
| Voucher to Determine Eligibility for Payment from $120 Million Fund under Proposed Rules | 10/27/2014 | ||
| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Injured workers who have received a Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit voucher for an injury occurring on or after Jan. 1, 2013, would be eligible for a payment of $5,000 from the special $120 million fund created by Senate Bill 863, under proposed rules published Friday by the California Depa...Read More | |||
