Workers' Compensation News
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Legislature Passes Bills to Cut Time to Decide Liability, Extend PTSD Presumption | 09/01/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers signed off on amendments to bills that cut two weeks from the time employers have to accept liability for certain presumptive injury claims, extend a COVID-19 presumption for another year and require brokers and agents to undergo training to identify insurance fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmaker Trims Year Off Proposed COVID-19 Presumption Extension | 08/29/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Presumptions that California lawmakers enacted in 2020 to help determine when COVID-19 arose from employment would remain in place for one more year instead of two, under a recently amended bill. ...Read More | |||
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Liability Determination Deadline Bill Amended to Require Appropriation for Data Collection | 08/25/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A requirement that the California Division of Workers’ Compensation revise its existing data collection processes to capture the date an injured worker is notified of a liability determination would be contingent upon a legislative appropriation, under a recently amended bill. ...Read More | |||
| Lawmaker Proposes Adding Former Firefighters to Presumption Law | 08/19/2022 | ||
| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Michigan lawmakers may add former firefighters as qualified recipients for benefits under the state’s 2014 firefighter cancer presumption law, less than one year after lawmakers made volunteer firefighters eligible. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Reports Glitch Fixed in Work Comp Campus | 08/17/2022 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that it fixed a glitch in its electronic claims management system that was rejecting transactions. ...Read More | |||
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Liberty Mutual Appoints Underwriting Leaders to Global Risk Solutions | 08/04/2022 | |
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| Liberty Mutual Insurance announced two leadership appointments within Global Risk Solutions Underwriting, with Brandon Fick joining the company as North America chief underwriting officer, and Nate Zangerle taking the position of chief underwriting officer for global surety. ...Read More | |||
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Logger Ordered to Pay $163,000 in Restitution | 07/21/2022 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced that a logger convicted of faking injuries to collect workers’ compensation benefits was ordered to pay more than $163,000 in restitution. ...Read More | |||
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Liberty Mutual Appoints Elizabeth Geary President, Insurance Solutions | 07/19/2022 | |
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| Liberty Mutual Insurance Global Risk Solutions announced the appointment of Elizabeth Geary as president of insurance solutions. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Contractor Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail for Fraud | 07/15/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Southern California labor contractor who pleaded guilty to fraud charges in March was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 24 months of felony probation, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Announces SAWW, Max Benefit | 07/08/2022 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations announced that the state average weekly wage used to determine workers’ compensation benefits for the fiscal year that started July 1 is $1,104.92. ...Read More | |||
