Workers' Compensation News
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L&I Posts Guidance on COVID Presumption | 10/22/2021 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries posted guidance on laws enacted during the 2021 session creating presumptions that COVID-19 is compensable for health care and other frontline workers. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Cites Four Contractors for Exposing Workers to Fall Hazards | 10/14/2021 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries issued more than a half-million dollars in citations to four roofing contractors that it said repeatedly exposed workers to the risk of falls. ...Read More | |||
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Legalization of Medical Marijuana Doesn't Allow Worker to Wiggle Out of Settlement | 09/27/2021 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker did not have a basis to set aside the deal to settle his workers’ compensation claim after medical marijuana was legalized and he began using it as a treatment for his injuries. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Proposes 3.1% Rate Increase | 09/22/2021 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ compensation rates in Washington state would increase 3.1% next year under a proposal the Department of Labor & Industries announced Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Labor & Industry to Hold Hearing on SB 367 Contractor Rules | 09/14/2021 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Montana Department of Labor & Industry will hold a virtual hearing to discuss proposed rules to implement Senate Bill 367, the agency announced. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Holding Two-Day Conference on Adjuster Training | 08/31/2021 | |
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| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Vermont Labor Department is holding a two-day conference in October that will provide continuing education credits adjusters need to be relicensed to adjust workers’ compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Announces Improved Process for Annual Claim Submission | 08/27/2021 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that the Workers’ Compensation Division’s Special Compensation Fund rolled out an improved annual claim reimbursement submission process in the agency’s electronic data interchange system. ...Read More | |||
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Limitations Period Tolls for Worker Without Guardian | 08/20/2021 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that the statute of limitations for a mentally incompetent worker did not expire during a time he was without a guardian to legally act on his behalf. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Reviewing Timeliness of Claim Activity | 08/16/2021 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry said its Compliance, Records and Training Unit will be reviewing claims for timeliness of liability determinations and initial payments, and assessing penalties as appropriate. ...Read More | |||
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Long COVID Prompts New Treatments, Case Management Strategies, Experts Say | 08/13/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| About a quarter of COVID-19 patients will develop long-term symptoms, which has prompted health care officials and workers’ compensation stakeholders to engineer multifaceted treatment strategies and new case management approaches, medical and comp experts said. ...Read More | |||
