Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Can't Reopen Worker's Claim and Transfer Liability to Special Fund | 11/30/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an employer could not reopen a worker’s claim and transfer liability to the Special Fund for Reopened Cases when there was no liability to shift. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Failed to Prove Entitlement to Credit | 11/29/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Louisiana appellate court ruled that a municipal employer failed to establish its entitlement to offset contributions to a retirement system from the amount of benefits owed to an injured worker, and that the employer had unreasonably contested the worker’s claim. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusivity Barred Heath Care Worker From Seeking Civil Remedy for Attack by Patient | 11/27/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that a health care worker was limited to a remedy through workers’ compensation for her injuries from an assault by a mentally ill patient. ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Deputy Resolves Allegations of Cashing Paychecks While on Injury Leave | 11/16/2017 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former sheriff's deputy entered a plea agreement this week to resolve allegations that he cashed his paychecks while out on a compensable injury, ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Access Police File Investigating Alleged Assault of Employee | 11/14/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Court of Claims ruled that an employer was not entitled to access a police department’s records pertaining to an investigation of a worker's alleged on-the-job assault. ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty to Fabricating Shooting to Hide Suicide Attempt | 11/10/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former Ohio police officer has switched his plea to guilty on charges that he tried to pass off his suicide attempt as an on-the-job shooting. ...Read More | |||
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Electrocution of Crane Operator Brings $8K in Fines Against Contractor | 11/07/2017 | |
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| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Vermont safety regulators imposed $8,000 in fines against a Maine-based construction firm after a crane operator was electrocuted when he came into contact with overhead power lines, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Employer Assessment Rate Drops to 12.1% | 11/02/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has dropped its annual assessment rate for all employers by a tenth of a percentage point. ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Nuclear Plant Workers Say They're Having Trouble Getting Workers' Comp | 10/31/2017 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| More than 700 workers say they’re having a hard time getting workers’ compensation for diseases they contracted after working at a plant that made parts for nuclear bombs, Kansas City television station KSHB-TV 41 ...Read More | |||
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En Banc Decision Confirms Right to Hearing on Timeliness of Declarations | 10/27/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board en banc decision handed down Thursday confirmed the right of lien claimants to have a hearing on the timeliness of declarations that were due by...Read More | |||
