Workers' Compensation News
| WCIRB Governing Committee Meets Wednesday | 12/08/2023 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee is meeting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. The committee’s December meeting is typically short, and this year is no exception. The only new business for committee members to discuss are potenti...Read More | |||
|
Two Tractor Rollover Deaths in Two Months Lead to $290,000 Fine | 12/08/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined a fruit grower and processor $290,000 after two orchard workers died in separate tractor rollover accidents in two consecutive months. ...Read More | |||
|
DWC Updates Ambulance Fee Schedule | 12/08/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted an order updating reimbursement rules and rates for ambulance services provided in 2024. ...Read More | |||
|
Ankle Condition Qualifies as Schedule Injury to Foot, Not Leg | 12/08/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NM | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that an ankle injury is a schedule injury to the "foot at the ankle." ...Read More | |||
|
Minor Fire Doesn't Constitute Abnormal Working Condition for Truck Driver With PTSD | 12/08/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a minor fire that was extinguished in two minutes without physical injury to anyone did not constitute an abnormal working condition for a truck driver. ...Read More | |||
|
Settlement of Third-Party Action Bars Receipt of Further Comp Benefits | 12/08/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker was barred from receiving further workers' compensation benefits because she had settled a third-party claim without the consent of her employer and its insurance provider, but that she had not made material misrepresentations. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Partially Revives Claim for Worker Injured While Taking Cover in Explosion | 12/08/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court partially revived a worker’s Labor Law claims for his injuries from taking cover from an alleged explosion that occurred while a work crew was replacing a damaged utility pole. ...Read More | |||
|
Rehab Provider Doesn't Qualify as Probationer's 'Employer' | 12/07/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that a private, nonprofit organization providing a residential rehabilitation program to a probationer is statutorily excluded from being the probationer’s employer for workers’ compensation purposes. ...Read More | |||
|
DWC District Office Moving From Stockton to Lodi | 12/07/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation is moving its Stockton office to Lodi next week. The division said the Stockton district office...Read More | |||
|
DWC: Medical Costs Down Nearly 30% in Last Decade | 12/07/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Payments for medical services declined nearly 30% to $812 million in 2022 from $1.15 billion in 2012, according to a new report on health care costs on utilization in the Texas workers’ compensation system. ...Read More | |||
