Workers' Compensation News
Legislature Moves to Cover Breast Cancer Under Firefighter Presumption | 09/27/2016 | ||
State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
Michigan lawmakers have introduced bills that would add breast cancer to the list of diseases covered by the state's firefighter presumption. ...Read More | |||
Lawsuit Against 'Secretive' NCCI Over Sunshine Law Moved to New Venue | 09/26/2016 | ||
By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
A Florida court has changed the venue of a lawsuit in which a Miami attorney is alleging the National Council on Compensation Insurance and the Office of Insuran...Read More | |||
Liability for Scaffolding Accident May Fall on Subcontractor Who Installed It | 09/23/2016 | ||
State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
A subcontractor who was injured when he fell off scaffolding during a construction project may proceed with his personal injury suit against the project supervisor who supplied the scaffolding after settling the workers' compensation claim, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled in...Read More | |||
L&I Proposes Rate Increase of 0.7% | 09/22/2016 | ||
State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
The Washington Department of Labor & Industries is proposing a rate increase of 0.7% on Jan. 1. L&I said the proposed increase would cost employers an average of about $10 more a year per employee. Workers, "on average," will not see an increase in what they pay, the dep...Read More | |||
Liability for Hearing Loss Claim Falls on Employer of 4 Days | 09/21/2016 | ||
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 | |||
Las Vegas Chiropractor Joins Doctors on Liens Network | 09/21/2016 | ||
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 | |||
Large-Deductible Recommendations Clear a Hurdle | 09/20/2016 | ||
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 | |||
Lawyer and Former Regulator Will Usher in Digital Transformation Project | 09/19/2016 | ||
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 | |||
Lawmakers Earmark Marijuana Tax Revenues to Fight Firefighter Cancers | 09/19/2016 | ||
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 | |||
L&I Can Recoup Overpayment From Worker's 'Innocent Misrepresentation' | 09/16/2016 | ||
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 | |||