Workers' Compensation News
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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 | |||
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Guaranty Association Tenders Proper Payment Despite Omission of Suffix | 12/14/2021 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld a determination that the Connecticut Insurance Guaranty Association properly make a payment to an injured worker by mailing his attorney a check bearing his name, but without the suffix “Jr.” ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Ashley D. Adkins | 12/14/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Goldberg Segalla added Ashley D. Adkins to the firm’s workers’ compensation group in Orlando, Florida. ...Read More | |||
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General Contractor Can't Preclude Worker From Introducing Evidence | 12/13/2021 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court denied a general contractor’s motion to preclude a worker from introducing evidence of the medical and indemnity benefits he received for his injuries in a negligence trial. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Announces Additions to Comp Team | 12/07/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: People | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Goldberg Segalla announced that Daniel P. Robinson joined the firm’s workers’ compensation group in Princeton, New Jersey, and that Paul J. Small joined the firm’s work comp group in Hartford, Connecticut. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Jonathan D. Mallozzi to Comp Group | 12/02/2021 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Goldberg Segalla added Jonathan D. Mallozzi to the firm’s workers’ compensation group in Newark, New Jersey. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Heather A. McLeod to Orlando Work Comp Group | 11/30/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Goldberg Segalla announced the addition of Heather A. McLeod to its workers’ compensation defense group in Orlando, Florida. ...Read More | |||
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Golden State Accounts for 20% of National Comp Payments | 11/15/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California accounted for 12% of all jobs covered by workers’ compensation in the year before the pandemic, 14.4% of all covered wages and 19.7% of all indemnity and medical benefits, according to data from the National Academy of Social Insurance. ...Read More | |||
