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	Highrise Builder Accused of Stealing Wages, Avoiding Taxes and Premiums		05/17/2018

	State: NY \| Segment: NORTH \| 316 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 50 min read
	Manhattan prosecutors accuse a Queens construction company and its payroll processing company of cheating a workers’ compensation carrier, employees and state tax collectors out of nearly $10 million, according to press reports. ...Read More


	House Approves Bill Increasing WC Appeals Court Judge Salaries		05/17/2018

	State: MN \| Segment: NORTH \| 112 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 16 min read
	As expected, the Minnesota House of Representatives voted 127-0 to pass a bill that increases the salaries of workers’ compensation judges by about $7,000 and allows retired administrative law judges to hear cases in the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals. ...Read More


	High Court Says Death Benefit Statute, Exclusive Remedy Pass Constitutional Muster		05/15/2018
	By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor)
	State: AK \| Segment: Top \| 274 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 12 min read
	Alaska's statutory cap on benefits when a worker without dependents dies is constitutional, and exclusive remedy prevents a mother from trying to pursue a defective-machinery lawsuit to recover damages, the state Supreme Court ...Read More


	High Court to Hear Arguments in UR Malpractice Dispute May 29		05/11/2018
	By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor)
	State: CA \| Segment: Top \| 1810 \| 1 \| Popular with Legal \| 33 min read
	California’s Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments at the end of the month in a case that has the potential to disrupt how utilization review is performed in the state’s workers’ compensation system. ...Read More


	House Passes Legislation Creating PTSD Presumption for 1st Responders		05/10/2018

	State: MN \| Segment: NORTH \| 450 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 44 min read
	The Minnesota House of Representatives has passed legislation that would create a presumption for post-traumatic stress disorder claims filed by first responders. ...Read More


	Hondurans Accused of Renting Insurance Policy to Shady Contractors		05/10/2018

	State: FL \| Segment: SOUTH \| 321 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 35 min read
	Two Honduran citizens face felony charges and deportation after they were arrested for allegedly running a scam that swindled a workers’ compensation insurer out of more than $6 million by buying workers’ comp policies in the name of a shell company and renting them out to contractors...Read More


	Hearing Set for Monday on Fee Schedules		05/10/2018

	State: SD \| Segment: NORTH \| 377 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 25 min read
	The South Dakota Division of Labor and Management is reminding stakeholders that it will hold a public hearing Monday on new workers' compensation fee schedules and new conversion factors for some medical services. The conversion factor used to determine maximum reimbursements would r...Read More


	Hoosier State Switching to EDI 3.1 in January		05/07/2018

	State: IN \| Segment: NORTH \| 119 \| 0 \| Popular with Insurance \| 4 min read
	Indiana will require electronic reporting of all first reports of injury, starting Jan. 1, the Workers' Compensation Board announced. ...Read More


	High Court IDs Test to Distinguish Employees From Contractors		05/01/2018
	By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor)
	State: CA \| Segment: Top \| 3008 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 46 min read
	California’s Supreme Court on Monday laid down a simple, three-part test to determine whether a person is an employee of an independent contractor, in a ruling that could have implications for workers’ compensation and the gig economy. ...Read More


	House Passes Public Plan for Residual Market		04/30/2018

	State: IL \| Segment: NORTH \| 669 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 61 min read
	The Illinois House has passed a bill that would set up a public insurer for the residual market, which a national insurance group has already blasted as a bad idea. ...Read More

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KY - OSHA Training in Louisville Oct. 22-26

09/24/2018 | 16 | 0

Kentucky's state-run workplace safety agency will offer another round of free training Oct. 22-26, this time in Louisville. The free training for employers and employees will run all week and will cover hazard communication, electrical safety, injury record-keeping, excavation and trenching, spray paint safety, fire protection, confined spaces, and wages and hours. The classes will be at the University of Louisville Shelby Campus, Founders Union Building, Room 6, in Louisville, and will start at 8:30 a.m. each day. Most classes qualify for continuing education credit for plumbing, and h... Read More

RI - Bug-Sniffing Dogs to Check for Bedbugs at WC Court

09/24/2018 | 25 | 0

Courthouse officials agreed to bring in bug-sniffing dogs to find bedbugs that have brought numerous complaints from workers. After a meeting with employees Thursday, administrators at the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Rhode Island, home to the Workers' Compensation and other courts, said dogs were to be brought in Saturday, according to the Providence Journal newspaper. Union leaders and others have said the complex should be closed and treated for the insects after people complained of seeing the itch-inducing bugs on several floors. But a court administrator said that a pest contro... Read More

NY - Corrections Officer Accused of Working as a Bouncer While on Benefits

09/21/2018 | 119 | 0 | 5 min read

A New York corrections officer has been charged with grand larceny and insurance fraud after investigators discovered that he was working as a bouncer in an Albany-area bar while collecting workers’ compensation benefits, the New York Inspector General’s Office said. Benjamin Essenter, 44, of Clifton Park, was arrested and arraigned in the Town of Colonie Justice Court, according to a press release. Essenter claimed he was injured while working as a corrections officer at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in the summer of 2016. He submitted medical examination reports stating... Read More

CA - Columnist: WCAB Move Fits Pattern of Rewarding Friends With Patronage

09/21/2018 | 528 | 0 | 11 min read

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to appoint a high school classmate to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board fits with a pattern of rewarding friends with political appointments since the start of his third term in 2011, according to columnist Dan Walters. Juan Pedro Gaffney Walters, a former columnist for the Sacramento Bee who joined the nonprofit CALmatters as a commentary writer in 2017, said that shortly after Brown took office in 2011, he rescinded an appointment his predecessor made to the state community college Board of Governors. Brown’s office exp... Read More

RI - Officials Aren't Itching to Close Courthouse Over Bedbug Sightings

09/21/2018 | 63 | 0 | 1 min read

Despite calls from labor unions to shut down the courthouse because of bedbugs, court administrators have said it's not such a biting concern and plan to keep the building operating. Union officials and courthouse regulars have complained for weeks about the itch-causing insects on several floors of the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence and don't feel that the issue is being taken seriously, according to local TV news. "It's a serious situation, and I don't know that they're taking it to the level I think it should be taken," said Michael Dow... Read More

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