The Alaska Workers’ Compensation Division issued a bulletin explaining when a cost-of-living adjustment should be applied during the calculation of a beneficiary’s weekly compensation rate in light of a recent state Supreme Court decision.
The state’s top court in Roberge v. ASRC Construction Holding Co., published Feb. 4, ruled that the COLA for out-of-state recipients must be applied before the statutory provision setting maximum compensation rates.
“Past procedures dictated that COLA should be applied to a recipient’s weekly compensation rate after the maximu...
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