Workers' Compensation News
| House Committee OKs Bill to Exempt Veterans' Organization Volunteers | 05/04/2015 | ||
| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An amended version of a bill that would codify that unpaid veterans’ organization volunteers are exempt from workers’ compensation coverage requirements garnered approval from a Missouri legislative committee. House Bill 615, filed by Rep. Dean Dohrman, earned the approval of ...Read More | |||
| High Court Dismisses Intentional-Tort Action by Worker Hurt in Cylinder Explosion | 04/30/2015 | ||
| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The words “intentional tort” essentially mean exactly that in Louisiana, which is why the state Supreme Court dismissed a worker’s attempt to collect a tort recovery from his employer after he was injured in a cylinder explosion. The court’s finding that the plaint...Read More | |||
| High Court Refuses Jurisdiction on Constitutional Challenge to "Option" | 04/29/2015 | ||
| State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An effort to use an express-lane path to getting the “Oklahoma Option” ruled unconstitutional was blocked when the state Supreme Court refused to accept original jurisdiction to hear the case. But an attorney for the plaintiffs said Tuesday that the decision has no bearing on ...Read More | |||
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House Bill Would Create Cancer Presumption for Firefighters | 04/28/2015 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
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Home-Siding Maker Gets 3 Violations in 3 Years | 04/27/2015 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
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| Helios Drug Report Shows Increase in Generic AWP Inflation, Drop in Opioid Utilization | 04/23/2015 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The average prescription cost per claim for workers' compensation patients increased for the first time in more than a decade, driven by an increase in overall average wholesale price inflation and a sharp one-year increase in AWP inflation for generics, according to a drug trend report by ph...Read More | |||
| House Passes TD and Health Plan Bills | 04/23/2015 | ||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass bills clarifying when employers must make the first temporary disability payment and allowing injured workers up to one year to file a workers' compensation claim after a health benefit plan rejects a claim. ...Read More | |||
| High Court Rules Municipal Employers Can Take Offset from retired Firefighters' Comp Benefits | 04/22/2015 | ||
| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Maryland's highest court on Monday ruled that Baltimore County can offset its obligation to pay workers' compensation benefits to retired public safety employees to account for the lump-sum payments the employees receive from their participation in the county's deferred...Read More | |||
| House Passes Bill to Delay RBRVS Fee Schedule by 5 Months | 04/14/2015 | ||
| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The deadline for the Alaska Division of Workers’ Compensation to adopt Medicare’s Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule would be pushed back to December under a bill the state House of Representatives passed Friday. ...Read More | |||
| High Court Says It Can't Review Order Granting Temporary Injunction on Arbitration Proceeding | 04/14/2015 | ||
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision by a trial judge issuing a temporary injunction to stop an arbitration proceeding between a comp carrier, its subsidiary and its insured. Case: Shasta Linen Supply v. Applied Underwriters, No. S-14-270...Read More | |||
