Workers' Compensation News
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Court Overturns Denial of Benefits to Worker for Psych Injuries From Harassment | 10/12/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board that denied benefits to a computer technician for a psychological injury allegedly caused by an abusive supervisor. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Worker's Claim Timely Filed | 10/12/2020 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a factory worker timely filed a claim for benefits within two years of the date she last received treatment for her back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Comp Carrier Doesn't Owe Coverage for Contractor's Injured Employee | 10/09/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that the workers’ compensation insurance provider for a real estate developer did not owe coverage for a claim by a contractor’s catastrophically injured employee. ...Read More | |||
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Council Set to Hear Two Bills on Reform of District's Dual Comp System | 10/09/2020 | |
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| State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The District of Columbia's unique, bifurcated workers' compensation system, long criticized as unfair to public-sector workers, may receive new scrutiny next week when the District Council considers two reform bills. ...Read More | |||
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Court Says Employer Can't Have Assessment Order Set Aside | 10/08/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an employer subject to an assessment for failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance could not petition a trial judge to set aside the order to pay up. ...Read More | |||
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Commission to Meet Via Teleconference on Thursday | 10/07/2020 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission will meet via telephone conference on Thursday. The meeting is set to begin at 9:30 a.m., the com...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Partial Summary Judgment on Claim by Worker Who Fell From Scaffold | 10/06/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claim after falling from a scaffold and that the property owner should have been granted summary judgment dismissing the man's negligence-based claims. ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Cites Wrong Statute to Deny Hundreds of Medical Invoices, Billing Firm Says | 10/02/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 6 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A workers’ compensation insurance provider has denied hundreds of bills from medical providers by citing incorrect sections of California's Labor Code to claim any request for payment made more than 30 days after the date of service is invalid, a national billing firm says. ...Read More | |||
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C&R Committee Meets Oct. 13 | 10/02/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Classification and Rating Committee will discuss during an Oct. 13 meeting the maximum and minimum reportable payrolls for executive officers and whether it’s appropriate to adjust the final premium amount that su...Read More | |||
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Carrier That Waited Too Long to Intervene Can't Get Settlement Set Aside | 10/02/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that an insurance carrier could not move to set aside a worker’s settlement with a third-party tortfeasor without first successfully intervening in the action and that it waited too long to file its request to do so. ...Read More | |||
