Workers' Compensation News
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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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House Judiciary Passes 'Fair Claims' Bill
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01/21/2014
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State: WV | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A bill that provides incentives for anyone to report government fraud or abuse advanced in the state House Judiciary Committee by a 15-9 party-line vote.
The Democrat-backed House...Read More
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Health Lobby Vows to Fight Medical Fee Schedule
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01/20/2014
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State: WI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Peter Mantius, Northern Bureau ChiefA draft workers’ compensation bill in Wisconsin prepared by the state's labor-management advisory council that would establish a medical fee schedule threatens to trigger...Read More
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High Court Denies Publication of 1st DCA Willful Misconduct Case
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01/17/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An unpublished California 1st District Court of Appeal decision on when an employer's failure to inspect and correct the condition of its equipment rises to the level of "serious and willful misconduct" will remain only persuasive case law in California.The Calif...Read More
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High Court Hears Dispute on whether IRCA Trumps Exclusivity
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01/14/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: NY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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New York's highest court last week heard oral argument in a dispute about whether an employer that violated federal immigration law by hiring two undocumented aliens lost its exclusive-remedy protection from claims filed by those workers after they were injured at work....Read More
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Hueso to Chair Labor Committee, Hearing Scheduled on SB 626
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01/10/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The California Senate Rules Committee unanimously approved a recommendation to name Ben Hueso as chairman of the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.Hueso, a Democrat from San Diego, will replace Bill Monning, D-Carmel, who served as chairman of the labor committee in 2013 and wa...Read More
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High Court Says Worker Unable to Work Nights Was Not 'Disabled'
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01/10/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MT | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Montana Supreme Court ruled that a former cement-manufacturing plant supervisor was not "disabled" by the stress of his job since his heart condition didn't stop him from golfing, camping, hiking or securing other work doing the same basic job for another employer....Read More
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House Committee Approves Changes for Comp Scofflaws
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01/10/2014
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State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Florida House Insurance and Banking Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve legislation that would give businesses more time to pay fines for workers' compensation violations but would boost penalties for failing to provide coverage.The committee approved House Bill 2...Read More
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House Likely to Pass Benefit Increase Bill, Senate Approval Uncertain
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01/09/2014
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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New Hampshire’s House of Representatives is on the cusp of approving a bill that would boost workers’ compensation benefits by 11% starting in January 2015.That change, which still needs approval of the Republican-controlled Senate to be passed into law, could increase employ...Read More
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