Workers' Compensation News
| Lawmakers Reintroduce Presumption Expansion Proposals Vetoed Last Session | 02/13/2023 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers introduced bills containing provisions that would expand the types of workers workers covered by post-traumatic stress disorder and skin cancer presumptions that are similar to measures Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed last year Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez, D-Pomona, on Thu...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Seek to Overturn BIIA Decision, Define COVID-19 as Occupational Disease | 02/10/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Lawmakers in Washington state would like to overturn a Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals decision denying a COVID-19 claim and amend the definition of “occupational disease” to include the illness. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass Dispatcher PTSD, Group Self-Insurance Pool Bills | 02/08/2023 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Virginia lawmakers passed bills that provide emergency dispatchers with coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder and allow two or more group self-insurance associations to merge. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Consider Adding Social Workers as Comp Providers | 02/07/2023 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Maryland lawmakers on Monday presented carryover legislation that would allow licensed certified social workers to diagnose injured workers with mental impairments. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Expand Provider Options for Federal Workers | 02/06/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate reintroduced legislation that would expand health care provider options for injured federal workers. ...Read More | |||
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Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Occupational Safety and Health Act | 02/03/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a case asking whether Congress unconstitutionally delegated unlimited authority to the executive branch with the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers to Consider Making Lyme Disease an Occupational Illness | 01/31/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Lawmakers in New York will for a second year consider making Lyme disease an occupational illness under workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Loss Costs to Decrease 6.7% in April | 01/26/2023 | |
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| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Vermont Gov. Phil Scott and Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Kevin Gaffney on Wednesday announced that workers’ compensation ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Introduce COVID-19 Injured Workers' Protection Act | 01/25/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Proposed legislation filed in New York on Wednesday would create a COVID-19 presumption in workers' compensation death benefits cases and also amend current comp law concerning temporary benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Set to Take Another Run at Revising IME Process | 01/25/2023 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hawaii lawmakers appear poised to take another run at revising the process for independent medical exams with the introduction of a bill that would require that injured workers and employers agree on the provider performing the evaluation. ...Read More | |||
