Workers' Compensation News
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Latest CompScope Report Finds Medical Payments Decreasing in Most Study States | 10/06/2023 | |
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| Source: Steve Nichols (News Contributor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute said in the 24th edition of its CompScope Medical Benchmarks report that medical payments per claim decreased at least 3% in most of the states covered by the study. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Increases Fee Schedule Conversion Factors | 09/21/2023 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that medical fee schedule conversion factors are increasing Oct. 1. The departme...Read More | |||
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L&I Proposes 4.9% Rate Increase for 2024 | 09/20/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries on Tuesday proposed a 4.9% increase in the average hourly rate employers and workers will pay for work comp coverage next year. ...Read More | |||
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LASIE Holding Annual Conference in November | 09/14/2023 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Association of Self-Insured Employers is holding its 2023 annual conference Nov. 1-3 in Lake Charles. The conference will ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass TD Duration, Presumption Bills | 09/13/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers passed bills to discount time spent resolving medical treatment disputes from the aggregate cap on temporary disability benefits, expand post-traumatic stress disorder and skin cancer presumptions and preserve the PTSD presumption for four additional years....Read More | |||
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Last Injurious Exposure Rule Doesn't Apply to Insurer's Liability for Hearing Loss Claims | 09/11/2023 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that the last injurious exposure rule does not apply to the apportionment of liability among an employer’s insurers when a workers’ compensation claim is based on occupational hearing loss. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Fines Chemical Processor $479,700 for Exposing Workers to Toxic Gases | 09/05/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries said it cited a manufacturing company that works with dangerous chemicals for allowing a worker to unload molten sulfur from a rail car without wearing proper respiratory protection. ...Read More | |||
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Leaseholder Doesn't Qualify as Injured Worker's Statutory Employer | 09/01/2023 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a leaseholder was not entitled to immunity from civil liability as a statuary employer of a contractor’s injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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L&I: Roofer Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud | 09/01/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A man who removed and installed roofs while claiming he was too injured to work pleaded guilty to stealing workers’ compensation benefits, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Says New RFI Process 'Going Well' | 08/17/2023 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry said the first few weeks of a new process of sending encrypted email messages to claims administrators containing requests for information “is going well.” ...Read More | |||
