Workers' Compensation News
| House Passes TD and Health Plan Bills | 04/23/2015 | ||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass bills clarifying when employers must make the first temporary disability payment and allowing injured workers up to one year to file a workers' compensation claim after a health benefit plan rejects a claim. ...Read More | |||
| High Court Rules Municipal Employers Can Take Offset from retired Firefighters' Comp Benefits | 04/22/2015 | ||
| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Maryland's highest court on Monday ruled that Baltimore County can offset its obligation to pay workers' compensation benefits to retired public safety employees to account for the lump-sum payments the employees receive from their participation in the county's deferred...Read More | |||
| House Passes Bill to Delay RBRVS Fee Schedule by 5 Months | 04/14/2015 | ||
| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The deadline for the Alaska Division of Workers’ Compensation to adopt Medicare’s Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule would be pushed back to December under a bill the state House of Representatives passed Friday. ...Read More | |||
| High Court Says It Can't Review Order Granting Temporary Injunction on Arbitration Proceeding | 04/14/2015 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision by a trial judge issuing a temporary injunction to stop an arbitration proceeding between a comp carrier, its subsidiary and its insured. Case: Shasta Linen Supply v. Applied Underwriters, No. S-14-270...Read More | |||
| Hearing Scheduled on Bill to Mandate Disclosure of UR Payments | 04/13/2015 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on April 22 will debate the merits of a measure that would require California workers' compensation carriers and employers make available information about what is paid to everyone involved in the utilization-review process. The timi...Read More | |||
| High Court Issues Stayed Suspension for Claimants' Attorney who Gave Money to Client on TTD | 04/13/2015 | ||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court last week suspended a claimants' attorney from practice for a period of six months after she pleaded guilty to complicity to commit workers' compensation fraud, but stayed the suspension on condition that she commit no further misconduct. Natalie Ference Gru...Read More | |||
| High Court Says Worker's Estate Can Pursue Claim for PPD after Worker's Death | 04/10/2015 | ||
| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| A unanimous Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a worker's claim for permanent partial disability survived his death. Accordingly, the court said, the estate of Gary Sather may prosecute the claim he filed before he died in January 2013. The case, Sather v. SAIF Corp.,...Read More | |||
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Hearing on mid-year Rate Decrease April 30 | 04/08/2015 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Department of Insurance will hear testimony regarding a proposed mid-year decrease in the advisory pure premium r...Read More | |||
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High Court Says Self-Insurance Group Can Proceed with Claims over Mismanagement of Assets | 04/08/2015 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alabama Supreme Court last week revived a workers' compensation self-insurance group's claims against its former investment banker and broker for their alleged mismanagement of the group's assets. ...Read More | |||
| Hospital Parent Co. Responds to Ebola Lawsuit, Says Comp Should Be Remedy | 04/08/2015 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| After the parent company of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit against it by a nurse who contracted Ebola at the hospital, an attorney for nurse Nina Pham said her client is moving forward with the suit, according to a report on KERA Radio. ...Read More | |||
