Workers' Compensation News
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Bill to Prohibit Use of Experience Modifiers in Construction Contracts Passes | 05/23/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Texas lawmakers recently passed a bill that would prohibit the use of workers’ compensation experience modifiers when awarding public construction contracts. ...Read More | |||
| Bill to Create Missed Designated Doctor Appointment Fee Lingering in Senate | 05/18/2023 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| By Steve Nichols, News Contributor Several workers’ compensation bills continue to struggle toward passage with the last day of the regular session of the Texas Legislature — May 29 — right around the corner, including a measure that would require carriers pay a missed a...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Allow Additional Premiums for Firefighter COVID Claims if ARPA Covers Costs | 05/11/2023 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Arizona lawmakers are sending Gov. Katie Hobbs a bill that would allow carriers providing workers’ compensation coverage for firefighters to charge additional premiums for COVID-19 claim costs — provided the federal government foots the bill. ...Read More | |||
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Bill That Would Allow PAs to Treat Injured Workers Heads to Governor | 05/05/2023 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon lawmakers passed a bill that would allow physician assistants to treat injured workers and authorize payment of temporary disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Board Properly Denies Review of Surgery Decision | 05/04/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Board properly denied review of an order by the board chair rescinding her prior authorization for treatment of an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Borrowing Employer Gets Summary Dismissal of Temp Worker's Tort Claims | 05/01/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a borrowing employer based on the exclusive workers’ compensation remedy in dual employment scenarios. ...Read More | |||
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BWC: MCO Open Enrollment Begins Monday | 04/28/2023 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The open enrollment period for Ohio employers to select a managed care organization to oversee the treatment of workers injured on the job begins Monday and continues through May 26, the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced. ...Read More | |||
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Bills Repeal Pool Assessment, Allow Tracking and Training of Contractor Truckers | 04/25/2023 | |
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| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed bills to ensure that motor carriers can monitor truck drivers without the risk of establishing an employer-employee relationship and to repeal a statute authorizing assessments for group-funded work comp pools. ...Read More | |||
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Bill to Create Good Faith Duty Heading to Governor | 04/24/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Lawmakers in Washington state passed a bill that would specify that self-insured employers and their private-sector counterparts that employ firefighters owe a duty of good faith and fair dealing with regard to workers’ compensation issues. ...Read More | |||
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Bill to List Psychologists as Attending Providers Heads to Governor | 04/19/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Lawmakers in Washington state on Tuesday delivered to the governor a bill that would allow psychologists to serve as attending providers for mental health-only claims. ...Read More | |||
