Workers' Compensation News
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Bill Would Automatically Qualify First Responders for Mental Stress Claims | 02/06/2018 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| First responders in Utah would automatically satisfy the requirement for proving a causal connection between employment and mental, physical or emotional injuries relating to stress under bill introduced in the state House of Representatives. ...Read More | |||
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Brooklyn Bar Cited for Lack of Comp Coverage | 02/06/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Brooklyn bar that was home to three knife attacks in less than a year has been shut down and fined $54,495 for not carrying mandatory workers’ compensation coverage and disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Bradford & Barthel Names 7 Partners in SoCal | 02/05/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Bradford & Barthel law firm on Friday announced that it has promoted seven attorneys in its Ventura, Los Angeles, San Diego and Anaheim offices. ...Read More | |||
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Board Yanks Physician's Authorization to Treat Injured Workers | 02/05/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Board has revoked Dr. Mohamed Abdel Hakeem Khalaf’s authorization to treat injured workers for gross negligence and gross incompetence, effective Feb. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Bill to Create Appellate Court Advances in Senate | 02/05/2018 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A long-discussed proposal to create an intermediate appellate court system in West Virginia advanced to the Senate Finance Committee on Friday after several days of discussions in the Senate Judiciary Committee, ...Read More | |||
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Business Owner Charged Second Time for Alleged Comp Fraud | 02/01/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Tallahassee business owner has been charged with failing to provide workers’ compensation benefits to his employees at Florida Medical Licensing Service Inc. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Mandate Doubling of Benefits for Late Payments | 02/01/2018 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Rep. Herbert Richardson, R-Lancaster, has introduced a bill that would penalize insurers for late workers’ compensation payments to workers. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Restore Commission's Fiscal Authority | 01/31/2018 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: MS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Mississippi House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill to undo a 2016 budget gimmick — later declared improper by the Attorney General’s Office — that has used workers’ compensation assessments to plug holes in the state’s general fund. ...Read More | |||
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Bill to Give First Responders PTSD Benefits Advances, With Changes | 01/31/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Florida House of Representatives committee has given its OK to a bill that would allow first responders to receive workers’ compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Place Self-Insurance Fund Under Another Agency | 01/30/2018 | |
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| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The House General Government Budget Committee has recommended for passage a bill that would move the administration of the State Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Fund from the Department of Health and Environment to the Department of Administration. ...Read More | |||
