Workers' Compensation News
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Commissioner Approves 9.6% Loss Cost Cut | 10/15/2020 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready approved a 9.6% decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs for 2021. ...Read More | |||
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CWCI Assesses Effects of Geographic Adjustment Factors | 10/14/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Workers’ Compensation Institute said its review of new geographic adjustment factors that were added to the Official Medical Fee Schedule in 2019 found no major change in where dollars are going. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Worker's Claim for Repetitive Stress Injuries | 10/14/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker’s repetitive stress injury claim was not time-barred, since the record did not support a finding that she should have known of the occupational nature of her injuries more than two years earlier. ...Read More | |||
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Court Expands Rule From Decision to Claims Without Combined Conditions | 10/14/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that when a worker’s impairment is caused entirely by a pre-existing condition that has not been claimed or has not combined with a compensable injury, she must be paid compensation as long as the new impairment is caused by the work injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Admonishes Lawyers in Case That Highlights Medical Fee Dispute Issues | 10/13/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Score one for the workers' compensation judges of the world. That's the feeling among some New Jersey attorneys after an appeals cou...Read More | |||
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Correctional Officer With Prior SLU Can't Get Additional Award After New Injury | 10/13/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a correctional officer was not entitled to a schedule loss of use award for an injury to his elbow, since he had already received two prior schedule loss of use awards for injuries to the arm. ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Gets Credit Against SLU for Worker's Knee Injury | 10/13/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an insurance carrier was entitled to a credit against the schedule loss of use award for a psychiatric center employee’s knee injury, since he already received an SLU award for a hip injury affecting the same leg. ...Read More | |||
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Commenters Want DWC to Act Fast to Raise Copy Service Fees | 10/12/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State workers’ compensation officials should raise the maximum copy services fee by $30 and they should do it soon, said dozens of stakeholders who commented on the California Division of Workers’ Compensation’s proposed changes to the Copy Service Fee Schedule. ...Read More | |||
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Claimant Agrees to Pay $33K in Restitution, Pleads No Contest to Fraud Charge | 10/12/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A medical assistant at a clinic in Southern California agreed to pay nearly $33,000 in restitution and plead no contest to a felony count of making a false statement to receive benefits, workers’ compensation defense firm Gilson Daub announced. ...Read More | |||
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CMS: Set-Aside Administrators Should Be Watchdogs on Opioids, Benzos | 10/12/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| If older injured workers are having trouble deciding if they should go with a professional administrator on a Medicare set-aside plan, the federal government has some advice: Just do it — especially if the beneficiary is prescribed what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services calls &...Read More | |||
