Workers' Compensation News
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Industrial Commission Has Discretion to Determine Worker's Preinjury Vision Baseline | 10/10/2023 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the Industrial Commission has discretion to use a claimant’s corrected vision as his preinjury visual baseline. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Division Seeks to Improve Drug Pricing Protocols | 10/10/2023 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Massachusetts Insurance and Financial Services Division is seeking comments on ways to facilitate compliance or improve standards for workers’ compensation prescription drug pricing protocols. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Fails to Prove Entitlement to Further Treatment, Benefits for Hip | 09/22/2023 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a caregiver was not entitled to additional treatment or benefits for her injured hip. Case:...Read More | |||
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Independent Contractors Don't Qualify as Statutory Employers | 09/21/2023 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that independent contractors are not afforded immunity from tort liability under the workers’ compensation law as statutory employers, unlike contractors and subcontractors. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Can't Relitigate Condition Years After Benefits Were Suspended | 09/08/2023 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker could not relitigate his condition years after adjudication suspended his benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Yacht Club Worker Can't Pursue Remedy From Employer Under Admiralty Law | 09/07/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that the recovery of workers’ compensation benefits was the exclusive remedy available to a yacht club employee for his on-the-job injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Department Promulgates TPA Rules | 09/07/2023 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Delaware Department of Insurance proposed rules that would revise the responsibilities of insurers with respect to on-site audits of their third-party administrators. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Health Care Worker Fails to Prove Retaliatory Motive for Termination | 09/01/2023 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court rejected a heath care worker’s claim that he was terminated in retaliation for a job-related injury as opposed to using excessive force against a patient. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Carrier's Claims of Fraud Revived Against Alleged Radiology Service Brokers | 08/17/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court reinstated an insurance carrier’s fraud claims accusing a group of defendants of running a radiology brokerage to produce grossly inflated bills for services provided to workers’ compensation applicants and personal injury plaintiffs. ...Read More | |||
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IAIABC Hosting Judicial Program Oct. 10-11 | 08/16/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions is partnering with the National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary and College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers to host a virtual program exploring judicial issues in workers’ compensation Oc...Read More | |||
