Workers' Compensation News
| Labor Department Proposes Reducing Assessment to 6.25% | 06/13/2016 | ||
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| The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training is proposing to lower the workers’ compensation assessment for a third consecutive year. The department is proposing to reduce the assessment rate to 6.25...Read More | |||
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Logistics Firm Ordered to Pay $275,000 for Retaliation | 06/13/2016 | |
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| A logistics provider has been ordered by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to reinstate and pay back wages to a driver who was fired after he refused to work longer than workplace safety regulations require, ...Read More | |||
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Lawyer: Self-Insured Plan for State Workers Puts Taxpayers at Risk for Millions | 06/10/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
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| Despite a state attorney general’s opinion that says otherwise, a lawyer is challenging Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation plan for state employees, saying it is illegal and could put taxpayers at risk for millions of dollars in fines. ...Read More | |||
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L.A. County Teacher Charged With Fraud | 06/08/2016 | |
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| A Los Angeles school teacher was arrested Tuesday for allegedly lying about injuries he sustained in a fight with a student, the California Department of Insurance announced. ...Read More | |||
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Legislators Oppose Using Comp Money to Fund Paid Family Leave Act | 06/07/2016 | |
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| Oneida County legislators are opposing New York’s decision to use $10 million from the state’s workers’ compensation fund as seed money to implement the recently passed Paid Family Leave Act. ...Read More | |||
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Lumbermen's Liquidated After Judge Finds Financial Rehabilitation 'Futile' | 06/06/2016 | |
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| A Missouri judge has declared Lumbermen’s Underwriting Alliance insolvent and ordered it into liquidation, with all remaining assets to be distributed to approved claimants of record. ...Read More | |||
| Low Bidder on City Project Charged With Workers' Compensation Fraud | 06/03/2016 | ||
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| A New York couple is charged with defrauding the workers’ compensation system while bidding on a rehabilitation project for the city of Amsterdam, New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott said. Scott’s office charged Alan Jon Squires, 47, with two felonies &mdash...Read More | |||
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Longtime Workers' Comp Lawyer Named Court's Chief Justice | 06/03/2016 | |
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| The Rhode Island Senate has named Robert M. Ferrieri, an eight-year judge on the state Workers’ Compensation Court, as the panel’s chief justice. ...Read More | |||
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Laundry Company Fined After Workers Rendered Unconscious | 06/03/2016 | |
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| By: Risk Media Solutions | |||
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| A commercial laundry company in Paterson has been cited by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration after four of its workers were hospitalized after being exposed to carbon monoxide. ...Read More | |||
| Longtime WCJ Rosa Moran, Former AD, Dies at 55 | 06/01/2016 | ||
| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
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| Oakland Workers’ Compensation Judge Rosa Moran, a former applicants’ attorney who served as the state Division of Workers’ Compensation’s administrative director during the turbulent year preceding ...Read More | |||
