Workers' Compensation News
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Employer's Knowledge of Worker's Secondary Employment Can't Be Imputed to Carrier
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12/12/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that an employer's knowledge that a worker has secondary employment is not sufficient to provide its carrier with knowledge of that fact for purposes of establishing the worker's entitlement to supplemental disability benefits.
Case: Department of...Read More
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Employer Wish List Led to Grand Bargain with Labor
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12/11/2014
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Editor's Note: Three WorkCompCentral reporters devoted at least one week each in the past several months to tell the story behind the story about the dysfunction of California's workers' compensation system. This is the fourth of six stories in our special report, which was distri...Read More
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Employers, Labor Support Rules to Implement $120M Supplemental Fund
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12/09/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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OAKLAND, Calif. – Representatives for both labor and employers said they supported the use of the Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit voucher to determine whether a worker is eligible for a $5,000 payment from the $120 million fund created by Senate Bill 863 during a public hearing Monday...Read More
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Electronic Filing to Workers' Comp Commission Mandatory Starting Jan. 1
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12/04/2014
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State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Electronic filing for documents submitted for individual commissioner and appellate panel hearings become mandatory in South Carolina starting Jan. 1, the Workers' Compensation Commission said in a notice posted on its website this week.
The commission said any documents submitted by ...Read More
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Employers Say IMR Records Penalties Could Force Judges to Play Doctor
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12/03/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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One of the guiding principles behind Senate Bill 863 was the idea that doctors, not judges, should be making medical decisions.
But employers say the Division of Workers' Compensation's plan to start penalizing claims administrators who don't send all relevant records to indep...Read More
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EEOC Sues Manufacturer for Screening out Job Applicants with Carpal Tunnel
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11/26/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week filed a lawsuit against an Illinois manufacturer for improperly screening out job candidates it deemed susceptible to carpal tunnel syndrome based on the results of a pre-employment physical and their health history.
The suit call...Read More
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