Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Waited Too Long to Challenge Ruling on Doctor Panel | 02/07/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals declined to consider the merits of a dispute over whether an employer had to provide an injured worker with a panel of physicians from which she could select a new authorized treatment provider. ...Read More | |||
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Electronic Records System Launch Set for October | 02/06/2018 | |
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| State: KS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kansas Division of Workers Compensation is inching ever closer to the October launch of its electronic records system. Contractor CapTec...Read More | |||
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Ex-NFL Player's $1.6M Comp Scam Nets Him 2 Years in Prison | 01/29/2018 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former New York Giants football player was sentenced to two years in federal prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to money laundering associated with his California-based workers' compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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Exposé on Criminal Mental-Health Facility Reveals Grisly Work Injuries | 01/26/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An investigative story on the state of Treasure Coast Forensic Treatment Center spotlights two grisly work injuries sustained by staffers of the Florida criminal mental-health facility. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Terminate Benefits for Worker's Mental Injury | 01/25/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court ruled that an employer was not entitled to terminate its payments of benefits for a worker’s panic disorder stemming from a bomb threat. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Shielded Construction Manager From Civil Suit | 01/24/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that Pennsylvania workers' compensation law barred an injured worker from pursuing a negligence claims against a project manager, as a matter of law. ...Read More | |||
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Employers' Reform Proposals in Play for 2018 Session | 01/18/2018 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An employer-backed bill proposing changes to subrogation rules, claim acceptance authority, occupational disease standards, the minimum age to settle a claim and how courts in Washington should construe the state’s workers’ compensation laws was carried over to the 2018 legislative se...Read More | |||
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Employer Found Liable for Additional Premium | 01/17/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that an employer was liable for the payment of additional premiums to its insurance carrier because its workers’ compensation policy was subject to a loss-sensitive rate plan. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Advocates Say Advisory Council Stacked in Favor of Labor | 01/16/2018 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An outgoing legislator who used to run the state Office of Workers’ Compensation, a current lawmaker, a defense attorney and an insurer group all say the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council has become too partisan and is stacked against employers. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Failure to Raise Argument Before Board Forfeited Issue on Appeal | 01/15/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an employer forfeited its argument that ulnar neuritis and cubital tunnel syndrome are the same condition by failing to raise the argument before the Workers’ Compensation Board. ...Read More | |||
