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Top Story: Monday, September 26, 2016
The Grand Bargain of workers’ compensation is failing injured workers and should be “blown up” in favor of another model, suggested speakers at an academic symposium at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey on Friday.
The day-long symposium, titled “The Demise of the Grand Bargain: Compensation for Injured Workers in the 21st Century,” featured a lineup of academics and workers’ rights advocates. It was sponsored by the Pound… Read more »
A Louisiana appellate court last week ruled that an employer could be held civilly liable to an employee who was injured in an on-the-job brawl with a co-worker.
Allied Cash Advance Louisiana terminated both Renata Loya and Jasmine Lucas after their fight in September 2013.
The Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit of Louisiana upheld the dismissal of Loya's claim for retaliatory discharge last Wednesday, but it… Read more »A Florida court has changed the venue of a… Read more »
Claims costs continued a five-year trend and ticked up to 2.5% to $2.45 billion in policy year 2013 for claims measured 18 months after policy… Read more »
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- IL AG Sues Makers of Opioid Addiction Drug Suboxone
- IL Physician Dispensing, High Replacement Wages Hurting Economy, Think Tank Says
- RI Beacon Mutual CEO James Rosati to Retire
- OH BWC Says Workplace Injuries Dropping Twice as Fast as National Average
- MA New England Attorney Groups to Hold Work Comp Education Conference Oct. 14
A panel from the California 4th District Court of Appeal last week summarily denied review of an employer's claim that it was entitled to contribution for a former employee's permanent partial disability benefits from the employee's subsequent employers.
The case was St. Vincent de Paul v. WCAB (Groves), No. D070724.
Dwayne Groves had… Read more »
A Missouri appellate court ruled that a worker was permanently and totally disabled by the combined effect of his carpal tunnel syndrome and other pre-existing health conditions.
Case: Wickam v. Treasurer of the State of Missouri, Nos. WD79188 and WD79211, 09/20/2016, published.
Facts:… Read more »The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a concrete finisher for his carpal tunnel syndrome.
Case: The W L Harper Co. v. Woods, No. CV-16-150, 09/21/2016, published.
Facts: George Woods began working for the W L Harper Co. in 2010 as a concrete finisher on a seasonal basis.
His job usually… Read more »
Net premiums written among U.S. property and casualty mutual insurance companies grew at a moderate pace of 3.1% in 2015, and have grown each year since 2010 at a compound average rate of 3.4%, according to a new report from A.M. Best.
The report attributed growth in net premiums written over the last five years to… Read more »
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and 35 other attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit on Thursday against the makers of Suboxone, a prescription drug used to treat opioid addiction.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Pennsylvania, accuses the companies of scheming to block generic… Read more »
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation is on the last lap toward promulgation of home health care regulations. It’s been a multi-year odyssey.
The second 15-day comment period ends on Wednesday. I’d wager that it is unlikely that we’ll see further changes from the current version, though commenters can always lodge their opinions.
This is an issue of great importance to a small subset of California’s injured workers, i.e., some… Read more »
An attorney who helped draft the Colorado ballot measure that would create a single-payer system in the state fired back at Pinnacol Assurance's assertion that the initiative would increase the duration of workers' compensation claims.
Ralph Ogden, a workers' compensation attorney until his retirement in 2012, said in an op-ed published by the North Denver News that the ColoradoCare initiative would improve care to injured workers because medical… Read more »The Illinois Policy Institute says physician dispensing and high… Read more »
A federal grand jury has indicted five defendants who allegedly took $1.37 million in kickbacks for referring blood… Read more »
A two-day sweep of Los Angeles-area garment factories resulted in a total of $682,000 in fines for 18 manufacturers and contractors that committed garment registration violations or didn't have workers' compensation insurance, according to the Department of Industrial Relations.
The California Labor Commissioner's Office issued stop work orders and a total of $603,043 in fines to six employers without workers' compensation insurance. It issued $42,300 in… Read more »A former Sutter County crisis counselor's manager told him that if he filed a workers' compensation… Read more »
Texas maximum and minimum benefit rates will increase 2% on Oct. 1 due to an increase in the state average weekly wage, the Division of… Read more »
Workplace injuries in Ohio are declining faster than the national average, according to the superintendent of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Division of Safety and Hygiene.
Dr. Abe Al-Tarawneh reported to the BWC board last week a 16.7% decrease between 2010-14, despite 7.5% employment growth in Ohio. The national average was an 8.6% drop.
“Ohio is becoming a leader in the workers’ comp industry with an impressive offering of workplace safety… Read more »James V. Rosati, president and chief executive officer of the Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., will retire on July 1, the company… Read more »
A collection of New England lawyers' groups will hold an educational… Read more »
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