Workers' Compensation News
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Housekeeper's Injuries during Job Interview Were Not Compensable
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11/27/2012
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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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Substantial evidence supported an administrative determination that a housekeeper's injuries while she was going through the interview process for a live-in position were not compensable. Case: Matter of Brzezinski v. Gambino, No. 511696, 11/21/2012, publish...Read More
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High Court Declines Review of Decision Cutting off Worker's Fentanyl
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11/27/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: PA | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An injured Pennsylvania worker whose employer cut her off from a highly addictive opioid painkiller last week failed to persuade the state's highest court to grant her relief. The Supreme Court declined to allow an appeal by Linda Turner challenging the Com...Read More
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High Court Clarifies Scope of Employer Intentional Tort Statute
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11/26/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: OH | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that an electrical-utility construction contractor's alleged instruction to an apprentice lineman that he did not need to wear his protective gloves did not amount to the "deliberate removal" of an "equipment safety guard" under the state's intentional ...Read More
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Hudgens Announces Revised Form for Coverage Exceptions
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11/26/2012
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State: GA | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced last week the State Board of Workers' Compensation (SWBC) has revised the form required for corporations, sole proprietors, partners and farm laborers to elect or reject workers' compensation coverage.Hudgens said in a notice...Read More
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High Court Says Employer Can Participate in Reevaluation Process
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11/20/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: WV | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An order issued by the West Virginia Workers' Compensation Board of Review that modifies or vacates a previous award of permanent total disability is not subject to challenge based on the involvement of a self-insured former employer in the reevaluation process, given that the participation...Read More
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Hearings on Workers' Comp Rates, Relativities Set for Dec. 17
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11/16/2012
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State: TX | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman will hold two hearings in Austin on Dec. 17 to consider workers' compensation rates and workers' compensation rate relativities.The hearings on Dockets No. 2746 and 2747 will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Room 100 of the William P. Hobby Jr. S...Read More
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House Staff Report Tracks NECC Problems Back to 1998
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11/13/2012
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State: MA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chief The New England Compounding Center (NECC) has been the target of state and federal investigations that date back to 1998 and involved issues similar to those blamed for the deadly...Read More
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Hancock Worker Arrested on Comp Charges
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11/13/2012
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State: NY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Delaware County, N.Y., Sheriff's Office has arrested a worker on charges that he failed to obtain $13,000 in workers' compensation benefits from the county's Self-Insurance Fund.The Daily Star newspaper reported Saturday that James T. Rotzler, 59, of Hancock, N.Y., was ch...Read More
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