Workers' Compensation News
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Evidence Supporting Finding of MMI for Worker, Even after Her Change of Doctor
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10/20/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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An Ohio appellate court ruled that substantial evidence supported a finding that a worker, who switched treating doctors after the doctor issued a report indicating that her condition had "plateaued," was at maximum medical improvement for her back injury, even without the report from t...Read More
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Edgewood Partners Cofounder to Leave Company
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10/16/2014
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Seven years after cofounding Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, Dan Francis is leaving the company.
"In leaving EPIC, I’ve decided to begin a new journey outside of insurance that will afford me the opportunity to further ‘give back’ and focus on some personal inte...Read More
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Employer Entitled to Partial Offset for Settlement Paid to Claimant in ADA Case
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10/16/2014
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State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer is entitled to a credit for the $47,485 it paid to a claimant to settle a discrimination claim against its obligation for workers' compensation benefits, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled, reversing the state Workers' Compensation Commission for a second time in the same cas...Read More
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Employer Fraud More Expensive, Claimants More Likely to be Jailed
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10/15/2014
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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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Premium fraud committed by employers accounts for a greater share of convictions and dollars lost to fraud in California than false claims filed by workers, but workers are more likely to be sentenced to at least one day in jail according to a WorkCompCentral analysis of data reported to the Depa...Read More
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Employer's Failure to Raise Challenge to PFB Waived Its Ability to Contest Fee Award
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10/14/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The failure of an employer and its insurance carrier to seek dismissal of a petition for benefits on the basis that it had not been accompanied by a written statement from the worker's authorized treating doctor waived its ability to raise this deficiency to contest the worker's entitleme...Read More
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Employee's Failure to Request Treatment Didn't Take Employer Off Hook for Cost of It
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10/14/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer that undisputedly knew that its employee had been injured on the job was liable for his medical treatment costs, even though the worker had never formally asked his employer to pay for his care, a Florida appellate court ruled.
Case: Fortune v. Gulf Coast Tree Care. No. 1D13-5...Read More
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Employer Penalized for Failing to Inform Claimant he Could Choose Physician
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10/13/2014
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State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer that failed to inform its injured worker that he had a right to choose his own physician must pay a $2,000 penalty and $5,000 in attorney fees, the Louisiana 2nd Court of Appeal ruled.
Case: O'Quinn v. Trinidad Drilling, No. 49,372-WCA, 10/01/2014.
Facts: Damian O&...Read More
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Experts Fear EEOC as Disdainful as OSHA of Work Safety Management Tools
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10/10/2014
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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While rules proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration could eliminate post-injury drug testing, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has taken aim at another tool commonly used by employers: workers' compensation background checks.
Both agencies...Read More
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