Workers' Compensation News
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HM Appoints Greg Wilden to Replace Retiring VP of Sales
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12/19/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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HM Insurance Group announced Wednesday the appointment of Greg Wilden as senior vice president of sales. Wilden replaces Mark Lancellotti, who will retire in January after seven years in the position, the Pittsburg-based carrier said.Wilden joined HM in 1986 and has worked in...Read More
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Hearing Scheduled on Employer Reporting Bill
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12/18/2013
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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 Assembly Insurance Committee will hear public testimony on a controversial measure that aims to crack down on businesses that fail to report all their employees when purchasing workers' compensation coverage in the first week that lawmakers return to Sacramento for the second year...Read More
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Hartford Welding Company Fined by OSHA
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12/18/2013
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State: CT | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued eight failure-to-abate notifications with fines of $165,550 to Jarosz Welding Co. Inc. in Hartford, Conn., for failing to correct specific workplace safety hazards cited in an earlier OSHA inspection of the company's welding shop....Read More
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High Court Denies Rehearing to Worker's Malpractice Suit
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12/17/2013
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State: TX | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Texas Supreme Court denied a petition to rehear an injured worker's malpractice suit on Friday. The state Supreme Court denied review to the case of Elizondo v. The Krist Law Firm, No. 11-0438. On Aug. 30, the high court issued a 6-2 decision stating that Jose Elizondo, an injure...Read More
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Homeowner Not Liable for Worker's Fall from Ladder
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12/17/2013
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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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A homeowner was not liable under Labor Law Section 240(1) for a construction worker's fall off of a ladder, and her husband, the employer of the construction worker, was immune from liability to the worker as a co-employee, a New York appellate court ruled. ...Read More
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Hand-and-Foot Bill Headed to Full Senate
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12/16/2013
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State: NJ | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The New Jersey Senate Labor Committee last week approved legislation that would provide a 39% increase in workers' compensation benefits for workers who lose the use of a hand and a 52% increase in benefits for the loss of a foot.The Labor Committee voted 3-1 to approve Senate 1134. ...Read More
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High Court Reverses Itself on Effect of Comp Rulings in Civil Case
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12/11/2013
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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 Tuesday ruled that the outcome of an injured food deliveryman's workers' compensation case should not be controlling on his claim for lost wages and medical expenses from the alleged third-party tortfeasor responsible for his accident a decade ago....Read More
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High Court Upholds Decision Barring Doc. from Treating Workers
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12/10/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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The West Virginia Supreme Court last week upheld the enforcement of an administrative order that permanently terminated a doctor's right to receive workers' compensation payments for services rendered to injured employees.After eight years of litigation, Dr. ...Read More
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High Court Mulls Special Orders Doctrine during Oral Arguments
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12/06/2013
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By John P. Kamin, ReporterThe Texas Supreme Court questioned whether a trial court should have defined the specific orders doctrine before allowing a jury to rely on it to increase an injured seaman's award from $210,000 to $420,000, during oral arguments on Thursday.The ...Read More
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High Court: Worker Can't Get Benefits for Injury without Accident
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12/04/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Idaho Supreme Court upheld the denial of benefits to a worker who attributed her complaints of back pain to several different causes on the basis that she had failed to establish an industrial accident causing her back injury. Case: Clark v. Shari's Mana...Read More
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