Workers' Compensation News
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High Court OKs Worker's Long-Term Opioid Use for Back Injury | 02/28/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker with a decades-old back injury was entitled to ongoing authorization for Tramadol. ...Read More | |||
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House Approves Cancer Presumption, Extends Volunteer Subsidy Fund | 02/28/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia House of Delegates unanimously approved a measure that would add three types of cancer to the list of conditions covered by the state’s rebuttable presumption for firefighters, and extended for another two years a subsidy account that helps volunteer fire departments ...Read More | |||
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House Unanimously Approves Maintaining Cancer Presumption | 02/27/2020 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Idaho Legislature has signed off on a measure to preserve a cancer presumption for firefighters that was created four years ago. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Bill That Would Allow PTSD Claims for First Responders | 02/25/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia House of Delegates unanimously approved a measure that would allow first responders to receive workers' compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder without an accompanying physical injury. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Revives Worker's Labor Law Claim for Fall | 02/24/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York’s highest court revived a worker’s Labor Law claim for injuries from a fall while he was trying to climb through a window cutout of a building under construction. ...Read More | |||
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House Approves PTSD Presumption for EMTs, Law Enforcement | 02/14/2020 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Mexico House of Representatives approved a bill that would create a rebuttable presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment as a law enforcement officer or emergency medical technician. ...Read More | |||
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House Approves Broad PTSD Bill for First Responders | 02/14/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Ohio firefighters, law officers and emergency medical workers would qualify for benefits for work-related mental stress under a much-debated bill passed Wednesday by the House of Representatives. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Bill to Extend Disease Presumption to Portland Firefighters | 02/13/2020 | |
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| By: Tonika Reed (Reporter) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon state House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would give some 650 firefighters in Portland the same workers' compensation presumption that other firefighters in the state have enjoyed since the 1960s. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Revisits Dispute Over Employer's 'Conscious Disregard' of Injury | 02/12/2020 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Idaho Supreme Court revisited its ruling on whether an employer “consciously disregarded knowledge” that a piece of equipment posed a significant risk of harm to an employee when she was fatally injured. ...Read More | |||
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Hubachek Elected Chair of Workers' Advocacy Group | 02/10/2020 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Gregory Hubachek, a longtime claimants' attorney in Metairie, has been elected chairman of Louisiana Workers' Advocates. ...Read More | |||
