Workers' Compensation News
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L&I Issues Quarterly Memo on Fee Schedule Updates | 03/31/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry has issued a reminder that the maximum reimbursement for each medical service on the fee schedule increased by 1.7% on Jan. 1. ...Read More | |||
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LHWCA Beneficiary Must Comply With State Law Notice Requirement for 3rd-Party Suit | 03/30/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker who received benefits under the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act for a shipyard injury still had to comply with state law notice requirements for bringing a third-party tort claim based on his accident. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Posts Proposed 2017 Facility Fee Schedule to Website | 03/30/2017 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Montana Department of Labor and Industry posted to its website a proposed facility fee schedule instruction set for services provided on or after July 1, along with a host of spreadsheets to determine reimbursement owed to hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers for services provided t...Read More | |||
| Lawmakers Consider Bill to Change Designation of Workers' Comp Adjusters | 03/30/2017 | ||
| State: ME | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Representatives of Maine's Senate and House will get together to discuss a bill to designate workers' compensation insurance adjusters as separate from property and casualty insurance adjusters, for licensing purposes. LD 984 has been sent for concurrence in the House and Se...Read More | |||
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Lack of Written Notice Did Not Abrogate Employer's Liability for Fall | 03/29/2017 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An employee’s failure to give written notice of a workplace fall did not make her ineligible for benefits because the employer was aware of the accident, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled. ...Read More | |||
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L.A. Superior Court Jury Awards Fired Worker $650K | 03/28/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded an injured worker who was fired the day his light-duty placement ended $650,000 in damages, the plaintiff's attorney's office announced in a statement. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Proposes Updates to 11 Rules, Including Rule on Owner-Optional Coverage | 03/27/2017 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Washington's Department of Labor and Industries has proposed changes to its general reporting and record-keeping rules, and the rules governing workers' compensation rates and classifications. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers: Data Indicates Comp Rates Will Drop This Year | 03/24/2017 | |
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| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Data from state financial regulators indicates that employers could see savings of $15.5 million from lower workers' compensation rates this year, two lawmakers told the Rutland Herald on Th...Read More | |||
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Late-Session Proposals Surface to Privatize, Eliminate State Fund | 03/22/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: MT | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Montana lawmakers are considering the late-session introduction of measures that would either eliminate the state’s quasi-public workers’ compensation carrier or transform it into a mutual carrier and strip it of its tax exemptions. ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Approves TD Prohibition for Terminated Workers | 03/22/2017 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Mexico lawmakers sent to Gov. Susana Martinez a bill that would prohibit workers fired for misconduct from receiving temporary disability benefits and prohibit the use of modifiers to increase permanent disability awards when a person refuses a return-to-work offer. ...Read More | |||
