Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Gets to Adjust Worker's Disability Status despite Flub in Requesting IRE
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06/23/2015
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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Employer Must Pay Comp Lien under Terms of Settlement with Worker
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06/23/2015
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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Ex-Corrections Officer Pleads No Contest to Fraud
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06/22/2015
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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Employer Was Subject to 20% Penalty on unpaid Conciliation Award
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06/16/2015
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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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Enstar Reinsures WC Carve Outs from Voya Subsidiary
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06/02/2015
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An Enstar subsidiary has entered into two co-insurance agreements with ReliaStar Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Voya Financial, Inc., by reinsuring all of the run-off made from workers’ compensation carve-outs.
In the agreement, Enstar took over $290 million in gross disc...Read More
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