Workers' Compensation News
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Judge to Hear Suit Vital to Self-Insured Firms
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11/05/2007
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Self-insured employers protecting themselves from expensive workers' comp claims with excess insurance policies should tune in on Jan. 11 when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge will hear a case with major financial ramifications for employers.The suit was filed in December 20...Read More
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Justices: Docs Needn't Agree on Officer's Disability
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11/02/2007
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State: IL | Segment: Courts | 0
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The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday awarded a duty-related disability pension to a North Chicago police officer, deciding that state law requires that an officer be evaluated by three doctors -- not that they all agree about his medical condition.Justice Lloyd Karmeier wrote the unani...Read More
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JCC Overruled, Attorney Award Reset
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11/01/2007
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State: FL | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Legal
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While denying a claimant's challenge to the basis of the attorney's fee awarded in his case, the 1st District Florida Court of Appeal recalculated a lower court's arithmetic.The appellate court ruled that Compensations Claims Judge Joseph Murphy had correctly interpreted Sect...Read More
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Judge Sentences Ex-Letter Carrier for Fraud
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10/31/2007
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State: OH | Segment: Fraud | 0
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A Dover, Ohio letter carrier who was videotaped coaching has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay $37,335.27 to the United States Postal Service for mail and workers’ compensation fraud, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio announced.U.S. Attorney...Read More
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Justices Say 1999 Law Governs Woman's TTD Award
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10/31/2007
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State: ND | Segment: Courts | 0
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The North Dakota Supreme Court told the state workers' compensation agency it erred when it replaced a woman's temporary total disability payments with a permanent partial benefit, and that both sides applied the wrong version of the state's income test to the case.Claimant D...Read More
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Justices Reject Employer's Bid to Recover Settlement Costs
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10/22/2007
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State: OH | Segment: Courts | 0
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An Ohio appeals court rejected a bid by Dillard Department Store to recover from the Bureau of Workers' Compensation's surplus fund medical expenses and $15,000 it had paid to settle a workers' compensation claim.
In State of Ohio ex rel Dillard Department Stores Inc. v. the Ohio Bure...Read More
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Judge's Ruling in Stop-Loss Case May Increase Hospital Costs
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10/18/2007
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State: TX | Segment: Top | 0
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In a decision that could increase Texas workers' comp costs by hundreds of millions of dollars, a state district judge has held that a "one-prong" test should be applied to determine when to apply a stop-loss provision under the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation's hospital fee guidelines....Read More
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Justices Won't Reconsider $2.6M FEHA Decision
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10/11/2007
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State: CA | Segment: Courts | 0
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The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to reconsider a Fair Housing and Employment Act decision, meaning a former state prison employee will lose a $2.6 million damage award.
The justices voted 4-3 not to reconsider the portion of the case that stripped Dwight Green of non-econo...Read More
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JAMA: Job Stress Increases Risk of Second Heart Attack
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10/11/2007
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State: NA | Segment: Medicine | 0
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People who experience chronic job strain after a heart attack double their risk of having a second one, a Quebec research team reports.
Researchers at Universite Laval's Faculty of Medicine say the results demonstrate definite risks associated with job strain for workers who have been vic...Read More
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Julie Krautkramer Leaves IAIABC Oct. 12
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10/09/2007
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State: NA | Segment: People | 0
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The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) announced Julie Krautkramer will leave the association this week to become a sales and marketing assistant at the Madison (Wisconsin) Visitors and Convention Bureau.
Elizabeth Crum, IAIABC president, called...Read More
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