Workers' Compensation News
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Insurance Commissioner Must Sue in Carrier's Home County
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12/14/2018
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State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The Montana Supreme Court this week ruled that a dispute between the state’s insurance regulator and a workers’ compensation insurance carrier needs to be heard in the county where the carried maintained its principal office.
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ICA Threatens Employers Trying to Control Care
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12/14/2018
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State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Industrial Commission of Arizona threatened to bring bad-faith actions against employers and carriers that illegally try to control who is treating injured workers.
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Insurers Will Report Indemnity Data to NCCI in 2020
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12/13/2018
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State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Minnesota Workers' Compensation Insurers Association announced this week that its members will provide data to the National Council on Compensation Insurance as part of a nationwide study.
Insurers will initially provide indemnity transaction data for the second qu...Read More
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Insurance Law Didn't Bar Comp Carrier's Subrogation Claim
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12/06/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division this week ruled that an insurance carrier can obtain reimbursement from a third-party tortfeasor for the benefits it paid to an injured worker, even though the worker's ability to recover damages was limited by law.
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Industrial Commission Counsel Elected Judge
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12/05/2018
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State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor
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Brian Ratledge, the general counsel for the North Carolina Industrial Commission, has been elected as a trial court judge in Wake County.
Ratledge, a Republican, took over as general counsel at the commission in January 2017.
On Nov. 6, he won 38,615 votes, or just over 30%, ...Read More
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Injured Police to Get Extra Benefits After Scathing Opinion by Labor Board
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12/04/2018
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State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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A state labor relations board last week issued a scathing opinion against Bridgeport, Connecticut, noting that the city acted in bad faith in denying extra benefits to more than 100 injured police officers.
“These officers were doing their job, protecting the city, and, once injured...Read More
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Insurance Commissioner Voids More Unfiled Side Agreements
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11/27/2018
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones signed a pair of precedential decisions before Thanksgiving ordering a carrier to pay back any money it collected based on unfiled side agreements to large deductible policies.
Jones put the industry on notice that unfiled side agreements were ...Read More
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Injured Worker Failed to Assert Viable Claim Against Auto Insurer
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11/27/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A California appellate court ruled that an injured worker could not assert a viable bad-faith or breach-of-contract claim against her automobile insurer based on the carrier’s delay in paying uninsured motorist benefits to her until her workers’ compensation claim resolved.
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Insurance Department Begins Building New Offices
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11/27/2018
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State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer
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The Oklahoma Department of Insurance was scheduled to break ground today on a three-story building that will serve as the new headquarters for the department.
The groundbreaking ceremony was slated for 2:30 p.m. CT at 400 NE 50th St., just south of the Assoc...Read More
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