Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Can Terminate Benefit Payments to Worker Who Left Workforce | 09/12/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court upheld a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board allowing an employer to terminate payment of benefits to an employee who had voluntarily left the workforce. ...Read More | |||
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Emergency Rule Passed So Jockey Fund Can Self-Insure | 09/08/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has adopted an emergency rule, effective Aug. 18, to give the New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund the option to self-insure for workers’ compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can Suspend Benefits to Worker Who Voluntarily Quit Light-Duty Job | 08/31/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court upheld a judge’s order granting an employer a suspension of liability for the payment of benefits to a worker who had voluntarily quit a position within his medical restrictions. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusivity Didn't Bar Worker's Suit for Damages From Rape, Robbery by Colleague | 08/31/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act did not bar a worker’s tort suit over the injuries she sustained during the course of a robbery and rape by a cook at the restaurant where both were employed. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy for Alleged Mishandling of Worker's Claim Lay With DWC | 08/30/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a worker’s lawsuit against her employer and claims administrator for alleged misconduct in handling her workers’ compensation claim was subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Politician, Motel Owner's Trial on Work Comp Charges to Begin Nov. 30 | 08/28/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A trial date has been set for a former Red Bluff City Council member accused of failing to pay $20,000 in city taxes or carry workers' compensation coverage for the America's Best Value Inn he owned. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Tip Leads to Arrest of Claimant for Alleged Double-Dipping | 08/28/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio restaurant owner was ordered to reimburse the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation $9,406 and serve three years' probation after his former employer reported that he was drawing benefits while earning income. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Suspend Benefits to Injured Firefighter | 08/24/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court ruled that an employer was not eligible to suspend an injured firefighter’s benefits, as he had not voluntarily left the workforce. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Procedural Flub Results in Loss of Challenge to Claim | 08/23/2017 | |
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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 challenge to the compensability of an employee’s foot injury by appealing from the wrong decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board. ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Cop With PTSD Sues City for Not Accommodating Disability | 08/22/2017 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former North Platte police officer has sued the city, saying it chose to fire him rather than accommodate his post-traumatic stress disorder, ...Read More | |||
