Workers' Compensation News
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Jay Worker Charged with Defrauding Comp System
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11/05/2013
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State: NY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A worker from Jay, N.Y., was charged last week with offering a false instrument for filing and violations of the New York State Workers' Compensation Law, The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reported.The newspaper said Patrick F. Diello, 51, was arrested by New York State Police on five ...Read More
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Justices Propose Changing Burden of Proof for Pneumoconiosis
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10/30/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: IL | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Illinois Appellate Court upheld an award of Occupational Disease Act benefits to a long-time coal miner for his pneumoconiosis, and three of its justices said they were prepared to find that workers who have pneumoconiosis should be deemed to be disabled as a matter of law....Read More
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Judge Postpones Hearing in Lien-Activation Fee Dispute
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10/24/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The federal trial judge presiding over a constitutional challenge to the lien-activation fee imposed by Senate Bill 863 has postponed a hearing that was scheduled to take place today.A hearing on three pending motions in Angelotti Chiropractic v. Baker, No. 8:13-cv-0...Read More
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Judge Upholds $5.1 Million Verdict in Subrogation Dispute
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10/23/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A San Francisco trial judge last week upheld a $5.1 million jury verdict in favor of a comp carrier and an injured worker on a subrogation claim against an asbestos abatement contractor. The SeaBright Insurance Co. and David Melanson also received an award of $4...Read More
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Joy M. Dougherty Named WCB Presiding Judge
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10/23/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board appointed Joy M. Dougherty as the presiding administrative law judge to replace Holly J. Somers, who was appointed as the board’s chairwoman in September.Dougherty was appointed presiding judge of the Workers’ Compensation Board on...Read More
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Jury Rules Arts School Violated Whistleblower Act
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10/22/2013
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State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A federal jury has found a Palmetto, Fla., state-funded charter school and its principal, Dr. Bill Jones, guilty of violating the whistleblower provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act for firing a worker who reported electrical hazards at the school.The U.S. Occupational Saf...Read More
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Jury Awards Offshore Oil Driller $9.6 Million for Back Injury
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10/15/2013
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State: TX | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employee of an oil-drilling vessel obtained a $9.6 million verdict against Diamond Offshore Services, after a jury determined that Diamond Offshore's vessel was unseaworthy and that its negligence caused his career-ending back injury. Willie David Williams obtained a $9.6 million ...Read More
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Judge Says E-Filing Saved more than $1 Million
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10/11/2013
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State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Florida Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims David Langham said in a blog that the electronic filing and service of documents in workers' compensation cases is saving parties nearly $1.1 million a year and is saving the state Office of Judges of Compensation Claims another $157,093....Read More
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JT2 Says it Will Comply with WC Changes after Critical Audit
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10/08/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The third-party administrator for the city of Oakland said Monday it welcomes procedural changes to the city's workers' compensation program that will be in place after an audit revealed the city's Risk Division had spent $10.1 million for services above the amount contracted and that ci...Read More
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Judge Rules WTC Developer Not Entitled to Insurers' Recoveries
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09/20/2013
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State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By David Dankwa, Senior ReporterA federal judge in New York ruled this week that New York developer Larry Silverstein is not entitled to funds that insurers of his World Trade Center properties won from airlines as part of an earlier settlement over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 200...Read More
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