Workers' Compensation News
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High Court Rules no TTD for Health Care Worker Exposed to HIV
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07/24/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: AK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An Alaska health care worker who was sprayed in the eye with fluids from an HIV-positive patient was not entitled to continuing temporary total disability benefits for her psychological stress more than a year after her exposure, the state Supreme Court ruled on Friday. ...Read More
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High Court Explains How to Determine Who Is Employer
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07/20/2012
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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 the state Industrial Commission, when confronted with more than one possible employer of an injured worker, has discretion to consider any relevant circumstances to an accident in deciding where to assess liability. Case: State...Read More
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Hub International Appoints Martin Hughes as CFO
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07/19/2012
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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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Hub International Limited announced Wednesday the appointment of Joseph C. Hyde as chief financial officer, effective Aug. 15.Hyde will report to Chief Executive Officer Martin P. Hughes. He will be based at Hub's corporate headquarters in Chicago.Most recently, Hyde serv...Read More
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Hayashi Appoints Adjudication Division Director
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07/18/2012
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Utah Labor Commissioner Sherrie Hayashi announced on Tuesday the appointment of Heather E. Gunnarson as the new Director of the Labor Commission's Adjudication Division.The division hears workers' compensation, employment and housing discrimination and occupational safety cases....Read More
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High Court Declines Review of Challenge to Social Security Offset
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07/18/2012
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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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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Monday summarily denied review of four workers' compensation cases, including one involving a constitutional challenge to the state's "old age" Social Security offset. An en banc Commonwealth Court in January rejected...Read More
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House Stalls Action on Postal Reform until after August Recess
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07/17/2012
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Leaders in the U.S. House confirmed last week they plan no action on either the House or the Senate version of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reform until after the August recess -- amid speculation any reform will wait until after the November elections.The U.S. Senate's version of post...Read More
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High Court Calls for Update on Law for Mental-Mental Injury Claims
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07/12/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: SC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The shooting and killing of a suspect by a deputy sheriff while on duty is not an extraordinary and unusual employment condition such that mental injuries arising from the event would be compensable, South Carolina's highest court ruled in a 17-page decision which called on the state's ...Read More
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High Court Clarifies Vicarious Liability for Traveling Workers
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07/11/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday ruled that an employer was not vicariously liable for a car accident caused by an employee on an out-of-town assignment after hours, resolving a split between the state's appellate divisions that could have exposed employers to substantial liabilities. ...Read More
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High Court Reverses Itself, Awards Healing Period Benefits
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07/10/2012
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: IA | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A claimant who had reached maximum medical improvement is allowed to collect additional healing period benefits while recovering from surgery, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, overruling a precedent it established in 1999.Case: Waldinger Corp. v. Mettler, 10-0502, 07/06/2012.Fac...Read More
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High Court Hears Arguments in Worker's Right to Medical Privacy
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07/10/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: GA | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Georgia's highest court is hearing oral arguments today on whether a restaurant worker who accidentally drank lye can be forced to authorize her doctor to communicate with her employer. Attorneys John D. Blair and Christopher Todd Ross of Ross & Levy fi...Read More
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