Workers' Compensation News
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Lawmaker Targets Provider Reports, Physician Choice | 02/06/2017 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Under a pair of bills introduced to the Arizona Legislature, medical providers could be temporarily suspended from treating injured workers or fined up to $1,000 if they have a history of writing medical reports that are overturned. ...Read More | |||
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Letter Mistakenly Sent to Claimant's Attorney Wasn't Binding on Employer | 02/06/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that a letter stating that an employer was accepting liability for a worker's knee conditions was not binding on an employer, since it had been sent by mistake. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Try Again to Give Firefighters Access to Cancer Benefits | 02/03/2017 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| One year after Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a similar bill, six Georgia lawmakers have introduced a measure to give firefighters access to workers' compensation benefits for cancer. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmaker Wants Comp for Off-Duty EMS Workers | 02/03/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Pennsylvania lawmaker is trying again to pass a bill that would allow emergency medical workers to file comp claims if injured while they are responding to an off-duty emergency. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Bills Gain Traction in House | 02/01/2017 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| If an employee is fired for testing positive for drug and alcohol use in Arkansas, he cannot contest the test results before the state Department of Labor under a bill that just passed the Arkansas House of Representatives unanimously. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmaker Seeks to Roll Back Reforms Amid Constitutional Challenge | 01/30/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: KS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| After a year in which courts in Florida, Oklahoma and Utah ruled portions of state workers' compensation statutes unconstitutional, some state lawmakers in Kansas are worried that the Legislature may have gone too far with reforms passed in 2013 and are proposing to roll back many of the...Read More | |||
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Lawmaker Proposes to Give Federal Nuclear Workers Disease Presumption | 01/30/2017 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Washington state lawmakers introduced legislation that would create a presumption that certain diseases contracted by workers at a federal nuclear storage facility are occupational in nature. ...Read More | |||
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Lawyers to Receive Training on Pilot Anti-Opioid Program | 01/27/2017 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Massachusetts lawyers will receive training on how the state's two-year anti-opioid pilot program, announced in December, will work and how to identify which of their clients might be suitable for it. ...Read More | |||
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Labor, Dems Worry Workers Irresponsible With Claim Settlements | 01/26/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Armed with a new study showing roughly 5% of eligible injured workers are settling their claims, employers in Washington state are mounting a new push to lower the minimum age at which workers are allowed to enter structured settlements. ...Read More | |||
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Leaders Nearing Compromise on Firefighter Presumption Legislation | 01/26/2017 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Nathan Deal, lawmakers and local government officials are nearing an agreement on how to pay for treatment of firefighters who contract work-related cancers. ...Read More | |||
