Workers' Compensation News
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Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Expand COVID-19 Presumption | 03/15/2021 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill introduced in the Connecticut legislature would expand a rebuttable COVID-19 presumption to essential workers who contracted the virus outside of a preset time frame last year, a local news site reported. ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Passes Bill Authorizing COVID-19 Claims | 03/15/2021 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Arkansas legislature sent to the governor a bill that would create a COVID-19 exception to the prohibition on compensation for ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is exposed. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass Bills on Compensable Injury Definition, COVID-19 Presumption | 03/12/2021 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oklahoma Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would revise the definition of a compensable injury to include accidents an employer was reasonably certain would occur as a result of its conduct. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Cites Contractor for Hazardous Working Conditions | 03/10/2021 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The U.S. Department of Labor has fined an Oklahoma construction contractor more than $200,000 for repeated “serious violations related to excavation work,” the agency said in a news release. ...Read More | |||
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Landscaper Faces Felony Charges 3 Years After Employee's Death | 03/09/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Prosecutors in Northern California have charged a landscaping company owner roughly three years after one of his employees died in an on-the-job accident. ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Passes Bill to Govern Return of Coal Fund Money | 03/09/2021 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Kentucky Employers Mutual Insurance would have more guidance on returning to coal companies about $20 million that remains in a black-lung compensation fund, under a bill heading to the desk of Gov. Andy Beshear. ...Read More | |||
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Liberty Promotes Wesley Hyatt to Chief Client Officer of Global Risk Solutions | 03/09/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Liberty Mutual Insurance announced today the appointment of Wesley Hyatt as chief client officer of its Global Risk Solutions. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Announces Possible Amendments to Outpatient Hospital Payment Rules | 03/05/2021 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced possible rulemaking it said would eliminate a conflict between two regulations and clarify its outpatient hospital payment policy. ...Read More | |||
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Lawsuit Says Governor Is Shielding Comp Official Accused of Bullying, Harassment | 03/03/2021 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A lawsuit filed Friday claims New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office ordered state departments to withhold record requests to shield a workers’ compensation official who has a history of bullying and harassing employees, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Passes Bill Disallowing Benefits for Failure to Disclose Medical Conditions | 03/02/2021 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Montana Legislature passed a bill that would prohibit workers from receiving comp benefits in certain circumstances when they fail to disclose preexisting medical conditions on pre-employment questionnaires. ...Read More | |||
