Workers' Compensation News
| LMAC Holding Zoom Meeting June 11 | 06/03/2020 | ||
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| Montana’s Labor-Management Advisory Council will discuss during a June 11 meeting the impact of COVID-19 on workers’ compensation claims. Advisory council members will also discuss mandatory certification for claims examiners, misclassification in the construction industry, te...Read More | |||
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Lien Conferences to Resume June 8, With Limitations | 06/01/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation and Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board announced that they will resume lien conferences on June 8. ...Read More | |||
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Lawsuit: Employees Stole Secrets, SIBTF Claims Info in Plot to Start Competing Company​ | 05/26/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An independent medical services company is suing four former employees for allegedly stealing company secrets — including information on “lucrative” Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund claims in California — during a scheme to start a competing company, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Law Firm Creates Flowchart to Follow Newsom's Executive Order on COVID Presumption | 05/26/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California workers’ compensation defense firm has published a flowchart for handling COVID-19 claims under a presumption created by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order earlier this month. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers OK Bill With Rebuttable Presumption | 05/26/2020 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Illinois lawmakers passed a bill that would create a COVID-19 presumption that could be rebutted by showing the employer followed government recommendations or adopted other strategies to try to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus. ...Read More | |||
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Liberty Mutual Appoints Chief Underwriter for Global Risk Solutions | 05/21/2020 | |
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| Liberty Mutual Insurance appointed David Perez chief underwriting officer for Global Risk Solutions, the carrier’s commercial and specialty lines reinsurer. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Approve Spending $1.25 Billion to Help Businesses, Renters | 05/19/2020 | |
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| State: WY | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Wyoming lawmakers passed three bills over the weekend authorizing the spending of $1.25 billion in federal money to aid businesses and renters affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to local media reports. ...Read More | |||
| Lara Expands Partial Premium Refund Order | 05/18/2020 | ||
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| California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday extended through May an order requiring insurance companies to return partial premiums to provide financial relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...Read More | |||
| Lockton Re Names Keith Thurman to Build Workers' Comp Practice | 05/15/2020 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Lockton Re, the reinsurance division of broker Lockton, announced that Keith Thurman joined its Atlanta office to lead the buildout of its workers’ compensation practice in the U.S. Thurman joins the firm from Aon, where he has worked for the past 22 years, most recently as a managi...Read More | |||
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Lentz Named Senior VP for Underwriting at Texas Mutual | 05/15/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has named longtime employee Jeff Lentz as senior vice president of underwriting. ...Read More | |||
