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Top Story: Tuesday, September 27, 2016
A national business association says a report to be released next month by the U.S. Department of Labor will be a springboard by some Democratic lawmakers to propose placing state workers' compensation systems under federal oversight.
The Labor Department plans to release a “State Workers’ Compensation Report” on Oct. 5, it's first national… Read more »
Oregon workers with permanent disabilities would enjoy the fifth highest weekly benefit payments in the nation under a legislative proposal drafted by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Division.
The maximum permanent total disability benefit of $974.20 per week currently paid to Oregon workers is the 17th highest in the country, just above North Carolina and just under Tennessee, according… Read more »As efforts intensify to combat the opioid epidemic,… Read more »
The Missouri legislature has passed a bill aimed at requiring employers who… Read more »
News: West
News: North
- OH Man Receiving TTD Benefits Caught Working Two Jobs
- PA Employer Was Entitled to Terminate Benefit Payments to Worker
- MI Legislature Moves to Cover Breast Cancer Under Firefighter Presumption
- OH Injured-Workers' Benefits Delayed Several Hours Due to Bank Issue
- NY Claims-Processing Time Cut in Half After Vendor Change
News: South
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed the board of directors for State Compensation Insurance Fund to appoint eight additional exempt senior management employees.
SB 1451, by Sen. Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia, would have allowed the carrier’s board to hire eight executives for areas including underwriting,… Read more »
A Columbus man who worked two jobs while collecting injured workers’ benefits must pay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation $6,000 in restitution and investigative costs, and serve five years of probation.
Dion S. Hopson, 43, pleaded guilty Sept. 20 in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’ compensation fraud, a first-degree misdemeanor, the agency said… Read more »The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that substantial evidence supported a finding that a worker's permanent partial impairment from an on-the-job fall was the rating assigned by her employer's expert as opposed to the rating assigned by her treating doctor.
Case: Williams v.… Read more »
The Missouri Court of Appeal ruled that a worker asserted a potentially viable tort claim against a co-employee for allegedly negligent operation of a forklift.
Case: Fogerty v. Armstrong, No. ED100947, 09/20/2016, published.
Facts: Matthew Fogerty and Larry Meyer both… Read more »
The Louisiana Court of Appeals ruled that the termination of a government employee who suffered injuries in an on-the-job car accident did not violate the state's civil service rules.
Case: West v. Sewerage and Water Board, No. 2016-CA-0148, 09/21/2016, published.
Facts: Kerry West worked for the Sewerage… Read more »
In Bayer v. Panduit, the Illinois Supreme Court considered a claim where the worker was severely injured. In his third-party action against the construction companies who caused the accident, he recovered an Illinois-record $64 million verdict for such injuries.… Read more »
The Commonwealth Court ruled that an employer established its entitlement to terminate payment of benefits to an injured worker and that it was properly subjected to a 0% penalty assessment for refusing to pay for a worker's surgery.
Case: Baumann v. WCAB (Kellogg Co.), No. 2603 C.D. 2015, 09/23/2016, published.
Facts and Procedural History: David Baumann suffered an injury to his back and shoulder in… Read more »Workers’ compensation professionals in Oklahoma can attend two free education events in October.
The… Read more »
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled… Read more »
Michigan lawmakers have introduced bills that would add breast cancer to the list of diseases covered by the state's firefighter presumption.
Sen. Curtis Hertel, D-East Lansing, and Rep. Winnie Brinks, D-Grand Rapids, introduced bills on Sept. 21 that would establish breast cancer as a disease presumed to arise in the course of employment for a firefighter with five or more years of experience. Both bills have several co-sponsors.
Employers cannot override the… Read more »The Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office announced that a former city police officer pleaded guilty to four… Read more »
An issue at an Ohio bank delayed benefits for several hours last week for about 7,000 injured workers, the… Read more »
The New York workers' compensation board's claims processing turnaround time has dropped from seven-to-10 days to three days or fewer over the past two years.
The document-management giant Xerox took credit for the increased efficiency in a press release. The New York State Workers' Compensation Board in 2014 partnered with Xerox to manage its data flow.
Workers at a Xerox processing facility in Endicott, New York, scan workers'… Read more »Workers' compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has hired Richard Kordell as a safety management… Read more »
The Utah Labor Commissioner is accepting applications for grants that will help pay to develop or improve… Read more »
Registration has opened for the 27th annual Case Management Society of America Conference & Expo, June 26-30, 2017, at the Austin Convention Center.
The conference will focus on the transformation of case management programs in workers’ compensation, hospital, long-term care, community health programs, patient-centered medical homes and other practice settings.
The conference offers continuing education credits. Learn more and register for the conference… Read more »
The Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation is meeting Oct. 6 in Oakland.
The commission will hear an update about ongoing efforts to implement a prescription drug formulary. Members will also hear a report on quality of care indicators for carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as a report on the effects of an aging workforce.
The commission meets at 10 a.m. at the Elihu Harris state building, 1515 Clay St., in Oakland.
A meeting agenda is… Read more »
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