Workers' Compensation News
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Governor Extends COVID Presumption | 02/07/2022 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed into law a bill extending for another year the presumption that COVID-19 is compensable for frontline workers. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Leigh Henjes to Comp Group | 02/02/2022 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Goldberg Segalla added Leigh Henjes to the firm’s workers’ compensation group in Philadelphia. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Adds to Teams in Manhattan, Princeton | 01/25/2022 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Goldberg Segalla added Ayomikun Loye to the firm’s workers’ compensation group in New York and added Drew J. Wares to its work comp group in Princeton, New Jersey. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Parking Lot Coverage Bill | 01/14/2022 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy enacted legislation that effectively abrogates a 2014 state Supreme Court decision finding a worker injured while walking from a private parking garage to her workplace was not entitled to work comp benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Gov. Reinstates Public Health Emergency, Activating Presumption | 01/13/2022 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy reinstated a public health emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that will activate a workers’ compensation presumption under a bill the governor enacted in 2020. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Swears in Comp Court Judge | 01/12/2022 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee swore in five new judges, including an associate on the Workers’ Compensation Court, according to a report by the ...Read More | |||
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Governor Proposes $1.5M Hike in SIBTF Funding | 01/11/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed an additional $1.5 million in funding to increase staff working on claims involving the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund, starting in 2023. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Bill Expanding Cancer Coverage to More Firefighters | 01/03/2022 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer enacted legislation that will allow firefighters who develop certain cancers to receive workers’ compensation benefits from the First Responder Presumed Coverage Fund. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Bill to Appoint Uninsured Employers Fund Within 10 Days | 12/30/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill that will require the Workers’ Compensation Board to appoint the Uninsured Employers Fund as the carrier in cases where the identity of the responsible carrier can’t be determined within 10 days of a claim. Hochul on Dec. 22 signed ...Read More | |||
| Governor Announces WCB Appointments | 12/23/2021 | ||
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced two appointments to the Workers’ Compensation Board. Beshear appointed Scott Miller as a member of the board. Miller is an attorney in Louisville and replaces R. Scott Borders, who died Nov. 8. Miller will serve a term ending Jan. 1,...Read More | |||
