Workers' Compensation News
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Commission Announces Medical Discovery Rulemaking | 07/12/2021 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Idaho Industrial Commission announced that it plans to promulgate rules relating to accessing medical information in workers’ compensation cases and wants to hear from the public before starting the formal rulemaking process. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Rejection of Proposed Settlement for Quadriplegic Worker | 07/08/2021 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that the state Workers’ Compensation Commission is not required to conduct a hearing on a settlement petition and that substantial evidence supported the rejection of a proposed settlement for a worker. ...Read More | |||
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Chesapeake Announces New Board Members | 07/06/2021 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Chesapeake Employers Insurance Co., Maryland’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, on Thursday announced the election of Theodore “Tedd” Martin Alexander III and Spencer P. Cavalier to the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Trooper's Claim for Conditions Allegedly Linked to WTC Cleanup | 06/30/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a state trooper’s claim for benefits for conditions he allegedly developed from exposure to toxins while working near the World Trade Center site after the 2001 terrorist attacks. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Order Compelling Employer to Produce Accident Report | 06/30/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld a trial judge’s order compelling an employer to turn over a copy of an accident investigation. Cas...Read More | |||
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Court Strikes Changed Definition of 'Willful Negligence' | 06/30/2021 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division invalidated the Public Employees' Retirement System’s amended definition of “willful negligence” for workers seeking accidental disability pensions. ...Read More | |||
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Committee OKs Expanded PTSD Presumption, Apportionment Restrictions | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly Insurance Committee unanimously approved a bill that would expand a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational condition for specific public sector workers, despite objections that proponents haven’t demonstrated the need for the initial presu...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds BWC's Classification of Nonprofit Group as 'Special Public Authority' | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that the Bureau of Workers' Compensation appropriately assigned a "special public authority" manual classification to a nonprofit corporation that provided services to public governing bodies. ...Read More | |||
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Court Can't Award Fees to Applicant Seeking Accidental Disability Benefits | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that the statutory transfer of authority to the Workers' Compensation Court to hear appeals of claims for accidental disability retirement benefits did not vest the WCC with the power to award attorney fees and costs. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reinstates Award to Widow for Husband's Fatal Stroke | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals reinstated benefits to the widow of a worker who died from a stroke two years after an on-the-job head injury. ...Read More | |||
