Workers' Compensation News
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Bill Would Require Employers to Reprocess First Responder COVID-19 Claims | 03/01/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Texas employers would have to reprocess COVID-19 claims filed by first responders who were denied before a presumption was enacted in 2021, under legislation introduced in the state House of Representatives Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Aims to Raise Benefits, Impose Fine for Withholding Medical Records | 02/27/2023 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Legislation introduced in the Connecticut House of Representatives would extend the duration of partial incapacity benefits and create a new fine for medical providers that fail to remit medical records upon request. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Board Approves 8% Rate Cut for Private Employers | 02/27/2023 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation board of directors approved an 8% rate cut for private employers. The BWC said the reduction is...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Authorize Fee for Missed Exam | 02/24/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Work comp carriers in Texas would be required to pay doctors at least $100 when an injured worker fails or refuses to appear for an independent medical examination, under legislation introduced Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Require Comp for All Sole Proprietors | 02/23/2023 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Sole proprietors in North Carolina would be required to have workers’ compensation coverage at all times, under legislation introduced Wednesday in the General Assembly. ...Read More | |||
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Bills Would Allow Workers to Choose Treating Doctor, Revise Firefighter Presumptions | 02/23/2023 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Bills introduced in the Montana Legislature would give employees the ability to choose their treating physicians in workers’ compensation cases and add testicular and cervical cancer to the list of conditions presumed to arise out of employment as a firefighter. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Expand PTSD Comp Presumptions | 02/22/2023 | |
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| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Vermont lawmakers are proposing to expand workers' compensation eligibility to additional classes of state employees diagnosed with job-related post-traumatic stress disorder. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Increase Employer-Paid Comp Legal Fees | 02/21/2023 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The amount of money that employers would need to front for employee discovery costs in workers' compensation cases that go to settlement would increase, under a measure introduced Thursday by New Mexico lawmakers. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Apply PTSD Presumption to Workers at Dept. of Corrections | 02/17/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Some California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation workers would be eligible for a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is a compensable, injury under recently introduced legislation. ...Read More | |||
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Berkshire Names David Speights VP of Analytics for Comp Division | 02/16/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Cos. named David Speights vice president of analytics for its workers’ compensation division. ...Read More | |||
