Workers' Compensation News
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En Banc Court Says Getting Coffee with Friend Isn't a 'Social Activity' Outside Scope of Comp Act | 06/26/2015 | |
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| Employer's Obligation to Pay Award of Death Benefits Isn't Stayed during Pendency of Appeal | 06/24/2015 | ||
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| The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that there is no automatic stay on an employer's obligation to pay death benefits to a worker's heirs while it is seeking judicial review of a board determination that the worker's death was compensable. Case: Nuessen v. Sutherlands, No. 111,4...Read More | |||
| Employer Gets to Adjust Worker's Disability Status despite Flub in Requesting IRE | 06/23/2015 | ||
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| The Commonwealth Court ruled that an employer was entitled to automatically change a worker's disability status from total to partial after securing a favorable opinion through the independent medical evaluation process, even though it hadn't technically complied with all the deadlines an...Read More | |||
| Employer Must Pay Comp Lien under Terms of Settlement with Worker | 06/23/2015 | ||
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| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker was entitled to enforcement of the terms of his settlement requiring his employer to satisfy an outstanding workers' compensation lien. Case: Ronkese v. Tilcon New York, No. 520025, 06/11/2015, published. Facts: Richard R...Read More | |||
| Ex-Corrections Officer Pleads No Contest to Fraud | 06/22/2015 | ||
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| A former Jamestown correctional officer who said he was injured on the job pleaded no contest to workers’ compensation insurance fraud after investigators found him rock climbing, snowshoeing and hiking for 50 miles, according to a release from the Sacramento County District Attorney’...Read More | |||
| EPIC Hires Ingber to Manage WC Program in Birmingham | 06/19/2015 | ||
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El Monte City Treasurer's WC Claim under Investigation | 06/18/2015 | |
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| Employer Was Subject to 20% Penalty on unpaid Conciliation Award | 06/16/2015 | ||
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| A New York appellate court ruled that an employer's failure to timely pay a worker an award that was reached through the conciliation process was subject to a penalty representing 20% of the unpaid award. Case: Matter of Liberius v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp., No. 5198...Read More | |||
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Explosion in Rail Car Results in Company Receiving $47K in Proposed Penalties from OSHA | 06/08/2015 | |
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| Employer Gets 2nd Chance to Prove Entitlement to Reimbursement for Death Benefit Payments | 06/03/2015 | ||
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| A New York appellate court ordered the State Workers' Compensation Board to re-evaluate whether an employer might be eligible for reibursement from the Special Disability Fund for its payment of death benefits to the widow of a worker who had died from lung cancer. Case...Read More | |||
