Workers' Compensation News
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Ethics Committee Reports Two Violations From 2019 | 02/26/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Ethics Advisory Committee identified two violations among the 26 complaints of misconduct filed against administrative judges that were resolved in 2019, according to a report that the California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can Set Aside Default in Contract Dispute With Comp Carrier | 02/18/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that an employer was entitled to have its default set aside in a breach-of-contract dispute with its workers’ compensation insurance carrier. ...Read More | |||
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Employers Holdings Names Christopher Laws EVP | 02/17/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Employers Holdings Inc. named Christopher Laws executive vice president and announced he will succeed Katherine Antonello as chief actuary when she transitions to president and chief executive officer of the carrier on April 1. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Malicious Prosecution Claim Tossed as SLAPP | 02/10/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court upheld a decision to strike an employer’s malicious prosecution claim against a former employee and his attorney for having pursued an allegedly meritless negligence action. ...Read More | |||
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Encova Agrees to Accept Gravely Ill Firefighter's COVID Claim After New Reports | 02/02/2021 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A West Virginia insurance carrier has agreed to accept a COVID-19 claim from a gravely ill firefighter after news reports indicated that the insurer had initially declined to accept the case as work-related. ...Read More | |||
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Employment Changes Brought on by COVID-19 Could Outlast Pandemic, Recession | 01/27/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The COVID-19 pandemic changed how businesses operated in 2020, and many of those changes will likely stick around after the virus is gone, experts from the National Council on Compensation Insurance said Tuesday during a webinar outlining highlights from a ...Read More | |||
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Employers Must Consider Wealth of Legal Issues Before Requiring COVID Vaccinations | 01/19/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As health care professionals begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, California employers may have to navigate myriad legal issues if they’re considering mandating or even suggesting that their employees get vaccinated, employment law and workers’ compensation experts said. ...Read More | |||
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Even WCAB Judges Say They're Having a Hard Time Keeping Up With Comp Laws | 01/14/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In July of last year, Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Judges Robert Rassp and Eric Ledger guessed that California would soon add at least 1 million employees to payrolls across the state, thanks to the passage of Assembly Bill 5. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Advocates Sue Cal/OSHA Over Emergency COVID Regulations | 01/04/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two national business organizations and three small employers are suing the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health over emergency COVID-19 rules that employers argue are too burdensome and could lead to more layoffs. ...Read More | |||
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Education of a Judge: Rosen Reflects on 47 Years in Workers' Comp | 01/04/2021 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A workers' compensation judge whose decisions have had a significant impact on Florida case law retired last week after 12 years on the bench. ...Read More | |||
