Workers' Compensation News
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Bill Would Limit Liability for Cumulative Trauma, Occupational Disease Claims | 01/30/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California lawmaker is proposing legislation to limit employer liability for occupational disease and cumulative trauma claims unless certain conditions are met. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Discovers Two Men Working While Receiving Benefits | 01/30/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A routine records check came up with the names of two men currently employed while receiving temporary total disability benefits. Frederick Dasse, 44...Read More | |||
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Bill, Postponed for a Vote, Would End Disability for Pro Athletes at Age 35 | 01/27/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois Legislature has put off a vote to reform the state's workers’ compensation system until at least the second week in February after senators adjourned Thursday without passing a 13-bill package aimed at ending the nation’s longest budget impasse. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Create Uninsured Employer Fund | 01/27/2017 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Colorado lawmaker is proposing to create a fund to pay medical and indemnity benefits owed to injured workers whose employers were illegally operating without workers’ compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Bankruptcy Judge Says Comp Experience Rating Didn't Transfer With Sale of Debtor's Assets | 01/26/2017 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal bankruptcy judge in New Hampshire ruled last week that the National Council on Compensation Insurance could not assign a debtor's workers' compensation experience rating to the purchaser of the debtor's assets. ...Read More | |||
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Brentwood Promotes Whitten to Claims Supervisor | 01/26/2017 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Brentwood Services Administrators announced Wednesday the promotion of Lisa Whitten to claims supervisor in the Brentwood, Tennessee, office. ...Read More | |||
| Back and Neck Medical Treatment Guidelines Under Review | 01/26/2017 | ||
| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents’ Health Care Services Board will meet at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 28 to review its back and neck medical treatment guide...Read More | |||
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Bertrum Carroll Named Chief Information Security Officer at Employers | 01/25/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Employers Holdings Inc. has named Bertrum Carroll as vice president, chief information security officer. ...Read More | |||
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BREAKING: SAIF Board Approves $1.7M Settlement With Plotkin | 01/23/2017 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The board of directors for Oregon’s SAIF Corp. will offer former chief executive officer John Plotkin a $1.7 million settlement to resolve a wrongful termination complaint he brought against the carrier after he was fired in 2014. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Calls for Publicizing Air Ambulance Rates | 01/24/2017 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Utah senator wants to track and publish the rates charged by air ambulance companies, which have come under fire both ...Read More | |||
