Workers' Compensation News
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Hylant Names Roi Head of Chicago Office
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02/04/2014
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State: IL | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The insurance brokerage firm Hylant announced that Louis Roi has been named president of the company’s Chicago office.Roi most recently served as an executive vice president at Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services in Chicago. He worked as managing direc...Read More
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High Court Dodges Question on Comp Review Board Jurisdiction
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02/04/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: DC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The District of Columbia's highest court vacated a decision by the Compensation Review Board regarding the effect of an injured worker's failure to cooperate with vocational rehabilitation and asked the board to explain its reasoning for why it had jurisdiction to address this issue whe...Read More
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High Court Says Firefighter's Motorcycle Crash Was in COE
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02/03/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MD | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that a firefighter's motorcycle accident, while he was on his way to pick up his mail from the fire station he normally worked at, was compensable.Case: Roberts v. Montgomery County, No. 39, 01/28/2014, published....Read More
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Hegarty Will Take Chicago Call after Training
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01/30/2014
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State: IL | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Chicago call previously handled by Arbitrator Barbara Flores will be conducted by several arbitrators until Arbitrator Jessica Hegarty completes her training program and assumes the call, the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission said in a notice posted on its website....Read More
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High Court to Decide if Railway Can Withhold Part of FELA Award
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01/30/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MO | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument next week in a dispute about whether a railway had failed to satisfy a jury's award of damages to an injured worker because it withheld a portion of the award to cover the employee's alleged tax liabilities under the Railroad Retir...Read More
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House May Decide in March on Terrorism Risk Insurance Renewal
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01/30/2014
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Self-Insurance Institute of America, which favors extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act set to expire at year's end, said the House Financial Services Committee won't likely consider TRIA's extension until March at the earliest.Committee Chair...Read More
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High Court Tosses Decision on Officer's Sick Leave
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01/30/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: DC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The District of Columbia Court of Appeals is giving a police officer a second chance to establish her claim that her elevated blood pressure was related to a prior line-of-duty injury. Case: Newell-Brinkley v. Walton, No. 12-CV-416, 01/16/2014, published. ...Read More
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High Court Says Family of Dead Worker Can't Sue Employer in Tort
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01/29/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: LA | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The family of a worker who was crushed by an engine block could not sue the worker's employer in tort because it could not surmount the high evidentiary burden of establishing that the worker's fatal injury was "substantially certain" to occur, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled....Read More
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Hearing on Fee Schedule Bill likely next Week
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01/28/2014
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State: WI | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Legislation to add a medical fee schedule for workers’ compensation is likely to get its first hearing next week before a joint session of the state Assembly Committee on Labor and state Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor, capitol sources said Monday....Read More
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High Court Finds Disease Caused by Vog Exposure Compensable
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01/27/2014
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A technology coordinator who became ill from breathing in volcanic smoke and ash while working at a high school built on a steep mountainside in Maui is entitled to workers' compensation benefits because the strenuous task of walking around the campus exacerbated his preexisting asthma, the Hawa...Read More
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