Workers' Compensation News
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Injured Trucker Charged With Driving for Uber While Getting Benefits | 01/23/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A truck driver who received benefits for a work injury last summer has been charged with fraud after he was found to be mowing lawns and driving for Uber and Lyft, the New York Inspector General's Office said. ...Read More | |||
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Intern Can Get Paid for Services Rendered to Worker After Becoming Licensed Attorney | 01/22/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a law school graduate was entitled to attorney fees for the services she provided to an injured worker after she became a licensed attorney. ...Read More | |||
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Injury From Attack by Boss With Meat Cleaver Is Compensable, Cook Says | 01/22/2020 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A sushi restaurant cook who police said was attacked by his boss with a meat cleaver has filed a workers' compensation claim, contending that the altercation came in the course of employment. ...Read More | |||
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IME's Failure to Provide Communications From Worker to Board Warrants Preclusion of Report | 01/06/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Board did not err in refusing to consider testimony from an independent medical examiner due to the doctor’s failure to provide copies of a letter and an intake form he received from an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Attorney Named to Judicial Review Commission | 01/06/2020 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| New Jersey's chief compensation judge has appointed a new member to the Commission on Judicial Performance after member Marie Rose Bloomer resigned, the judge said Thursday in a bulletin. ...Read More | |||
| Injured Bus Driver Didn't Forfeit Entitlement to Benefits by Misrepresenting His Condition | 12/31/2019 | ||
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured bus driver did not forfeit his entitlement to benefits by making deliberate misrepresentations about his condition even though video surveillance indicated he was capable of more activity than his doctor had expected him to be able to perform. ...Read More | |||
| Independent Contractor's Injured Employee Can't Maintain Suit Against Shipyard | 12/27/2019 | ||
| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that a shipyard was not civilly liable for an injury suffered by an independent contractor’s employee on the premises. Case: Hibbler v. Ingalls Shipbuilding Shipyard, No. 2018-CA-01240-COA, 12/17/2019, published. ...Read More | |||
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In the Works for Years, Assembly Approves Hand-Foot Benefits Enhancements | 12/26/2019 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A year after the state Senate passed it, the New Jersey Assembly has given its approval to a bill that will expand and extend benefits for the loss of fingers, toes, hands or feet. ...Read More | |||
| Interior Designer of Many Names Charged with Comp Fraud | 12/23/2019 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Even interior designers, including those accused of stealing homeowners' money, need workers' compensation insurance, Florida prosecutors said this week. A Sarasota woman who has worked under a number of aliases was arrested this week and charged with theft, unlicensed contracting...Read More | |||
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Injured Police Officer Can't Challenge Scope of Waiver in Settlement | 12/19/2019 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that an injured police officer could not challenge the terms of a settlement agreement in which he waived his claims. ...Read More | |||
