Workers' Compensation News
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Governor Signs MPN, Provider Utilization Bill | 10/11/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Division of Workers’ Compensation will have to publish data including how many times an individual provider’s treatment requests were denied, under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs PTSD, Peer-Support Bills Into Law | 10/02/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed into law Senate Bill 542 creating a rebuttable presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is a compensable condition for first responders. ...Read More | |||
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Government Employers Don't Have Sovereign Immunity From Retaliation Claims | 10/01/2019 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A unanimous Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that government employers do not have sovereign immunity from allegations that they discriminated against an injured employee who filed a workers’ compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs AB 5, Calls for More Pathways to Organize Workers | 09/19/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday called for lawmakers to create more pathways allowing workers to form unions, in his signing message for Assembly Bill 5. ...Read More | |||
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Gallagher Bassett Launches Transportation Group | 09/19/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gallagher Bassett on Wednesday launched the GB Transportation practice group that will be dedicated to risk and claims management needs of transportation companies. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Appoints Martin to Workers' Comp Commission | 09/18/2019 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Gov. Larry Hogan has appointed a former claims adjuster, now an insurance attorney, to the Workers' Compensation Commission. ...Read More | |||
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Gig Economy Not Taking Off as Predicted, Studies Show | 09/17/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers last week approved a bill that would require more workers to be classed as employees, not contractors, amid growing concern that a nationwide push toward a gig economy is depriving workers of benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Predicts Firefighter Presumption Bills Will Return in 2020 | 09/12/2019 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey told a Phoenix-area radio station that he anticipates state lawmakers will have to revisit a law next year that presumes cancer is a compensable condition for firefighters to address complaints about cities inappropriately denying claims. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Similar-Pay Jobs for Returning Workers | 09/12/2019 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has vetoed a bill that sought to clarify a 2010 state Supreme Court ruling and would have required higher pay levels for injured employees returning to work. ...Read More | |||
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Grand Jury Indicts Staffing Firm Executive on Tax Fraud Charges | 09/11/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A man whose staffing firm was once the subject of the what was called the largest premium fraud case in the history of California was accused by a federal grand jury of failing to pay the IRS more than $29 million. ...Read More | |||
