Workers' Compensation News
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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 | 288 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 10 min read | |||
| 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 | 242 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 87 min read | |||
| 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 | 232 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 60 min read | |||
| 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 | 283 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 52 min read | |||
| 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 | 260 | 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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| State: LA | Segment: Top | 511 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 91 min read | |||
| 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 | 232 | 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 | |||
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Elder Drobot Ordered to Forfeit $10M in Personal Assets | 01/12/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1287 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 12 min read | |||
| U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton ordered Michael D. Drobot to forfeit $10 million in personal assets at a hearing Wednesday afternoon. ...Read More | |||
| El Paso Seminar Rescheduled for Health Care Providers | 01/12/2018 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 244 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Division of Workers’ Compensation and the El Paso Small Business Development Center have rescheduled a seminar for health care providers and staff. Instead of Feb. 8, the event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 9 at El Paso Community College, ASC Auditorium, 9050 Viscount...Read More | |||
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Exclusivity Shielded Employer From Civil Liability | 01/11/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 228 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that workers’ compensation exclusivity shielded an employer for civil liability for an employee’s car accident, even though the employee was unable to secure an award of benefits for her injuries under the workers’ compensation law of another ...Read More | |||
