Workers' Compensation News
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Governor Signs Bill Allowing Volunteer Firefighters to Collect Cancer Benefits | 10/24/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation allowing cancer-stricken volunteer firefighters to collect lump-sum benefits from the state as of Jan. 1, 2019. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Associate to Hartford Work Comp Practice Group | 10/23/2017 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Goldberg Segalla law firm announced Friday that has hired attorney Andrew J. Even to the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group in Hartford. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Appoints Parisotto as AD | 10/20/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Jerry Brown appointed George Parisotto as administrative director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Employers to Provide Copy of IIPP | 10/18/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Jerry Grown vetoed a bill that would have required employees to provide to workers a copy of their written injury and illness prevention plan upon request. ...Read More | |||
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Guaranty Fund Liable for Insolvent Employer's Safety Violations | 10/17/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the Kentucky Coal Employers Self-Insurance Fund was liable for the cost of an enhanced award to the family of a miner who was killed because of his defunct employer’s intentional violation of safety regulations. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Small Business Rep on State Fund Board | 10/13/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The board of directors for the State Compensation Insurance Fund is fine as it is and there is no reason to mandate the appointment of a representative for small businesses, California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a veto message for ...Read More | |||
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Gov. Lauds Reforms as Courts Whittle Them Away | 10/09/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| At a conference last week, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin trumpeted the success of the 2013 Administrative Workers' Compensation Act, three days after its 44th provision was declared inoperable by the courts. ...Read More | |||
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Gov. Raimondo Signs Bill Setting Legal Structure for Workers' Cooperatives | 10/09/2017 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed a bill that sets up a legal structure for workers' cooperatives. ...Read More | |||
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Going and Coming Rule Didn't Prohibit Compensability of Worker's Claim for Car Accident | 10/03/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court ruled that the “going and coming rule” didn’t bar compensation for a worker who was injured while traveling home from a scrapyard, where he had disposed of construction debris for his employer, in an employer-owned vehicle. ...Read More | |||
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Goldberg Segalla Hires Recent Law School Grad in Greensboro Office | 10/02/2017 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Alexandria Kensinger (Goldber...Read More | |||
