Workers' Compensation News
Exclusivity Barred Medical Center Worker's Negligence Suit for Workplace Fall | 04/27/2015 | ||
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State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
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Employers Promotes Deputy General Counsel to Senior VP | 04/24/2015 | ||
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Employers Holdings has promoted its vice president and deputy general counsel to the role of senior vice president. Lori Brown will take on the new role, according to a Wednesday press r...Read More | |||
Employer Loses Challenge to Worker's Loss-of-Use Award and Claim for Social Security Offset | 04/23/2015 | ||
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State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
The Commonwealth Court ruled that an injured worker was not subject to having his disability benefits offset by his concurrent receipt of Social Security benefits, and that he was entitled to a loss-of-use award for his left hand. ...Read More | |||
Employer Can't Dispute Compensability of Worker's Ankle Condition after Accepting Injury | 04/21/2015 | ||
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The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that an employer's statement that it was denying the compensability for a worker's ankle condition, years after having accepted the injury as compensable, didn't place the compensability of the ankle injury into dispute once more. Case: J...Read More | |||
Expanded Coverage for Mental Health Meets Pushback from Municipal Leaders | 04/16/2015 | ||
State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
Connecticut lawmakers are once again working to get a bill passed that would expand workers’ compensation coverage to include mental health benefits for employees who witness a maiming or death, but pushback from municipal groups may again hinder the bill from passing. ...Read More | |||
Earnings from School Bus Driver's Summer Job Should Have Been Included in Her AWW | 04/15/2015 | ||
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State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
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Employer Group Says 'Option' Bill now on Radar for 2016 | 04/14/2015 | ||
State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
The employer lobbying group backing the “Tennessee Option” conceded Monday that state Sen. Mark Green’s voluntary comp bill won’t become law in 2015. “Legislation this big rarely passes in the first year in any Legislature,” Brent Buchanan, communicatio...Read More | |||
Expert Panel Sees Opportunity for WC to Lead Health Care with Value-Based Reimbursement | 04/13/2015 | ||
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When workers’ compensation professionals speak about health care, it’s often in the vein of how far behind the curve the system is in the treatment of injured workers than in other sectors of medicine. But a panel of experts meeting at a conference to be held in Las Vegas this...Read More | |||
Employer Wasn't Barred from Litigating Causation after Worker Filed 2nd Claim Petition | 04/09/2015 | ||
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State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
The Iowa Court of Appeals overturned an order of sanctions against an employer for contesting causation for a worker's claimed disability and ruled that the employer's position in challenging the worker's first application for alternate care didn't bar it from disputing causation ...Read More | |||
Ex-Police Officer Caught Doing Construction Work Can still Collect Disability Pension | 03/30/2015 | ||
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
A police officer who was caught on tape doing construction work less than one month after taking a disability retirement from the police force is entitled to continue receiving his disability pension benefits unless and until the pension board votes to suspend or reduce them, a New York appellate...Read More | |||