Workers' Compensation News
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Senator Considering Whether to Propose Allowing All Carriers to Pay Benefits by Debit Card | 04/26/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 301 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 11 min read | |||
| California will take baby steps toward the use of debit cards to pay workers' compensation benefits, but might expand their use later once it is shown that injured workers' won't be stuck with exorbitant fees, the chairman of the senate's labor committee said. ...Read More | |||
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WCAB Satisfied With DIR Response in Email Flap | 04/26/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 464 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 5 min read | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board accepted the explanation from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ top attorney for reviewing the emails of the board’s chairwoman. ...Read More | |||
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PEO Registration Bill Heads to Governor's Desk | 04/26/2018 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: Top | 95 | 0 | Popular with Employer | 38 min read | |||
| Missouri is poised to become the 41st state to establish a licensing requirement for professional employer organizations, assuming Gov. Eric Greitens — who has been under felony indictment since March — signs the legislation. ...Read More | |||
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Attorneys Planning Multi-State Attack on Diminished WC Benefits | 04/26/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 577 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 16 min read | |||
| With favorable court rulings in several states under their belts, claimants' lawyers across the country are now preparing for a coordinated attack on state laws that they say have all but destroyed the "grand bargain" for injured workers. ...Read More | |||
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Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment to Worker for Fall From Unsecured Ladder | 04/26/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 57 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 58 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law Section 240(1) claim based on his fall from a ladder, but there were still triable issues as to whether the Industrial Code had been violated. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Immune From Liability to Colleague for Accident in Employer's Parking Lot | 04/26/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 47 | 0 | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker was immune from civil liability to a co-employee for a car accident that occurred in their employer’s parking lot. ...Read More | |||
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Committee Moves Comp Bills Toward Final Vote | 04/26/2018 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 71 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 36 min read | |||
| An ad hoc committee of the Hawaii Legislature passed bills that would impose new requirements on doctors prescribing opioids to injured workers, and would increase payment to doctors treating firefighters with admitted cancer claims. ...Read More | |||
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Supervisor's Car Accident While Dropping Off Time Sheets Wasn't Compensable | 04/26/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 89 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 3 min read | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a supervisory worker’s fatal car accident while en route to his office to drop off time sheets for his crew was not compensable. ...Read More | |||
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Presumption Funding for Firefighters May Get New Life in House | 04/26/2018 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: NORTH | 64 | 0 | Popular with Employer | 2 min read | |||
| An effort to fund workers' compensation benefits for firefighters stricken with cancer may have new life in the New Hampshire House after the proposal was gutted by the Senate last month. ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Accepted Liability for Symptoms of Combined Condition, Not Additional Conditions | 04/26/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 39 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 184 min read | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that an insurance carrier’s ambiguous notice of acceptance was properly construed as accepting liability for a worker’s radiculopathy and radiculitis as symptoms of a combined condition as opposed to compensable conditions in their own right. ...Read More | |||
