Workers' Compensation News
Bills Address PTSD Benefits, Rulemaking Requirements | 01/24/2024 | ||
State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
Virginia lawmakers have introduced bills that would eliminate a cap on benefits provided to first responders with post-traumatic stress disorder and exempt the Workers’ Compensation Commission from some formal rulemaking requirements. ...Read More | |||
Bill Would Apply One-Year Limit on Provider Payment Disputes to All Claims | 01/23/2024 | ||
State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
Virginia employers and work comp carriers would have one year to seek recovery of payments to health care providers regardless of the date payment was made, under legislation moving through the General Assembly. ...Read More | |||
Bill Would Require Comp Hearings in County Seat | 01/12/2024 | ||
State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
A South Carolina senator introduced legislation that would require workers’ compensation hearings to be held in county seats. Current law re...Read More | |||
BWC Holding Educational Conference June 12-14 | 01/12/2024 | ||
State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced that its 2024 Educational Conference will be June 12-14 in Murfreesboro. Th...Read More | |||
Bills Would Increase Fine for Failure to Insure, Create PTSD Presumption | 01/11/2024 | ||
State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
Maryland lawmakers have introduced a measure to increase the penalty for employers that fail to secure workers’ compensation coverage, and a bill to create a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable for certain first responders. ...Read More | |||
Bill Would Require Hearing to Close Case, Stenographic Records of Proceedings | 01/11/2024 | ||
State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
New York lawmakers introduced legislation that would require hearings before any final decision to close a case. Bills introduced in the Senat...Read More | |||
Bill Would Create Presumption for 9/11 Workers | 01/11/2024 | ||
State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
Legislation introduced in New Jersey would create a presumption of compensability for some injuries or illnesses first responders suffered while responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ...Read More | |||
Bill Would Nix Experience Rating Requirement From Contracts | 01/09/2024 | ||
State: IN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
Indiana government agencies would be precluded from specifying minimum experience ratings when soliciting bids or entering into contracts, under legislation introduced Monday. ...Read More | |||
Bills Would Create, Modify Presumptions | 01/09/2024 | ||
State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
Bills introduced Monday before the legislative session starting Jan. 16 would create a new presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable for first responders in Alaska and would modify qualifying criteria for a current firefighter presumption. ...Read More | |||
Bill Would Create Presumption That Infertility Is Compensable for Firefighters | 01/08/2024 | ||
State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
Virginia firefighters who are unable to have a child after trying for a year would be presumed to have become infertile in the course and scope of their employment under a bill filed in advance of the session starting Wednesday. ...Read More | |||