Workers' Compensation News
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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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Justices: Debate Exists if Job Offer 'Made in Good Faith'
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10/01/2007
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State: OH | Segment: Courts | 0
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A workers' compensation commission needs to determine if a light-duty offer was "made in good faith," the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
Neither party disputed Susan B. Hudgel's inability to return to her former position of employment in Ellis Super Valu Inc. v. Industrial Commission of Ohi...Read More
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Justices Find $0 Award for Pain Inadequate
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09/25/2007
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State: VT | Segment: Courts | 0
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A woman who suffered cervical spine injuries deserves a new trial because a jury's pain-and-suffering award of zero dollars was "grossly inadequate," the Vermont Supreme Court ruled.
" ... Although there is no evidence of compromise apart from the verdict itself, we conclude that the inco...Read More
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