Workers' Compensation News
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Liability for Hearing Loss Claim Falls on Employer of 4 Days | 09/21/2016 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court this week ruled that the full amount of liability for a hearing loss claim by a worker who spent 33 years operating heavy machinery fell on his last employer, for which he had worked only four days. ...Read More | |||
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Las Vegas Chiropractor Joins Doctors on Liens Network | 09/21/2016 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Chiropractor Jeffrey Fine, who runs 10 offices and a mobile treatment unit in the Las Vegas area, has joined the Doctors on Liens network. ...Read More | |||
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Large-Deductible Recommendations Clear a Hurdle | 09/20/2016 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on large-deductible workers’ compensation insurance policies has moved a step closer to final approval, and plans are in the early stages to begin implementing its recommendations. ...Read More | |||
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Lawyer and Former Regulator Will Usher in Digital Transformation Project | 09/19/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission has tapped the former program director of Virginia’s system and his new firm to be the vendor for the first phase of an e-filing program dubbed the digital transformation project. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Earmark Marijuana Tax Revenues to Fight Firefighter Cancers | 09/19/2016 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Michigan House has approved three bills to regulate medical marijuana, one of which would fund the First Responder Presumed Coverage Fund to pay benefits to firefighters who contract certain types of cancer. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Can Recoup Overpayment From Worker's 'Innocent Misrepresentation' | 09/16/2016 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Washington Supreme Court ruled that the state Department of Labor and Industries could recover overpayments it had made to an injured worker because of its mistaken belief that he was married. ...Read More | |||
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Lawsuit: Berkshire Comp Program a 'Reverse Ponzi' Scheme | 09/14/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A guaranteed-cost workers’ compensation program sold and administered by affiliates of Berkshire Hathaway was a “reverse Ponzi” scheme that used unfiled side agreements to trick businesses into thinking they had insurance coverage when they were actually on the hook for all...Read More | |||
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Legislation May Lead to Better Pure Premium Rate Decrease | 09/08/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| OAKLAND, Calif. — The Governing Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Wednesday approved a plan to file for a slightly larger decrease to pure premium rates, should Gov. Jerry Brown sign into law a bill that puts new restrictions on lien filings. ...Read More | |||
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Selling 2 Boston Office Towers | 09/08/2016 | ||
| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance plans to sell two buildings in the city's Back Bay section, the company announced Wednesday. The workers' compensation, auto and home insurer has put its 75 Arlington St. and 10 St. James Ave. office towers on the market. ...Read More | |||
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Lab Cited for Inadequate Protection of Workers From Chemical Exposure | 09/06/2016 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Concerned about their sore throats, headaches and difficulty breathing, employees of Quest Diagnostic Corp.'s Ameripath diagnostic laboratory in Shelton reported the facility to the federal workplace safety agency earlier this year. ...Read More | |||
