Workers' Compensation News
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House Passes Bill to Delay RBRVS Fee Schedule by 5 Months
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04/14/2015
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State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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.
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Hearing Scheduled on Bill to Mandate Disclosure of UR Payments
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04/13/2015
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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.
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High Court Says Worker's Estate Can Pursue Claim for PPD after Worker's Death
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04/10/2015
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other
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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.
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Hospital Parent Co. Responds to Ebola Lawsuit, Says Comp Should Be Remedy
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04/08/2015
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Other
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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.
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High Court Says Collateral Source Payments Will Reduce Employer's Statutory Offset
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04/06/2015
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State: SD | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that the cost of medical bills for a worker's compensable treatments that were covered by his private health insurance carrier will reduce the amount of credit his employer had by virtue of his settlement recovery from the third party responsible for his i...Read More
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High Court Issues 2 Rulings on Scope of Scaffold Law
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04/03/2015
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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New York's highest court on Thursday added two decisions to the ever-growing mountain of case law on the type of activities that will bring a worker under the protection of Labor Law Section 240(1) – otherwise known as the "scaffold law."
The Court of Appeals ruled tha...Read More
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