Workers' Compensation News
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High Court Clarifies Compensation Court's Authority to Modify Prior Award of Treatment | 03/30/2022 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that the state Workers' Compensation Court erred in finding that it lacked authority to modify an award of medical rehabilitation services that had been previously issued to an injured truck driver. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Clarifies Requirements for Truck Driver to Qualify as 'Subject Worker' | 03/28/2022 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that a man who sustained injuries while driving a truck that he leased directly from a trucking company is a "subject worker" for whom the employer had to provide workers’ compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Splits on Adequacy of Industrial Code Regulation to Support Labor Law Liability | 03/24/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided New York Court of Appeals ruled that the Industrial Code regulation pertaining to the operation of power buggies was not sufficiently specific to support a Labor Law Section 241(6) claim. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Bill That Would Increase Benefit Cap to $273,000 | 03/24/2022 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alaska state House of Representatives passed a bill that would increase the cap on permanent impairment benefits by more than 54%, to $273,000 from $177,000. ...Read More | |||
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House Panel Moves Bills on Feds' Access to Comp | 03/21/2022 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday advanced a pair of bills that are intended to expand federal employees' access to workers' compensation, according to a report by ...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Claim for Carpal Tunnel, Increased Impairment Rating | 03/15/2022 | |
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| State: WY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld a determination that a worker’s carpal tunnel syndrome was not related to her workplace injury and that her claim for an increased impairment rating was unsubstantiated. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds Offset of State Employee's Comp Benefits | 03/10/2022 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld a decision of the state retirement system to offset the workers' compensation benefits paid to a worker against her disability retirement benefits. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes PTSD, Insolvent Carrier Data Bills | 03/04/2022 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Florida state House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would give first responders up to a year from the date of diagnosis to file claims for post-traumatic stress disorder, and a bill to require the use of insolvent carrier data when setting work comp rates. ...Read More | |||
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Homeowners Get Summary Judgment on Worker's Claims for Fall From Roof | 03/04/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker could not proceed with his claims against the owners of a residential property for his injuries from a fall from the roof of the house. ...Read More | |||
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Hospitalization, Intensive Care, Fatalities More Likely in COVID Medical Claims | 03/03/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| While the majority of workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic involved a mild infection and no hospitalization, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California reports that coronavirus claims with medical payments were more ...Read More | |||
