Workers' Compensation News
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No Sanctions Against Employee for Inconsistent Claim | 04/05/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court rejected an employer’s motion for sanctions against a worker who accused it of failing to provide the tools to do his job but claimed the opposite during the trial against an alleged third-party tortfeasor. ...Read More | |||
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No Mid-Year Filing on Tap for 2019 | 04/04/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will not be recommending that the California insurance commissioner adjust the advisory pure premium rate in July, saying the indicated decrease of about 4% didn’t warrant a mid-year filing. ...Read More | |||
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NCCI: Demographic Changes Don't Explain Frequency Decline | 04/03/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The aging of the U.S. workforce has had nearly no impact on the steady decline in the frequency of workplace injuries, according to a new report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance. ...Read More | |||
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NJCRIB Unveils App for Policy Coverage Information | 04/01/2019 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau has launched a free app for searching for policy coverage information via a mobile phone or tablet, the Bureau announced on Friday. ...Read More | |||
| Normandy Insurance Adds State to Coverage Area | 03/29/2019 | ||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Normandy Insurance Co. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance in Arkansas, the fourth expansion announced by the insurer this year. The expansion brings to eight the number of states in which Normandy provides workers’ comp coverage. The other states are Florida, Geor...Read More | |||
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No Duty Disability Retirement Benefits for Corrections Officer With Injured Knee | 03/27/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured corrections officer was not entitled to duty disability retirement benefits for a 2001 knee injury, since his incapacitation was not the natural and proximate result of the incident. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Widow of Worker Killed in Car Wreck | 03/25/2019 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The North Carolina Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of a widow’s claim for benefits for her husband’s fatal car accident. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Worker Who Provided Varying Accounts of Alleged Injury | 03/21/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the rejection of a claim by a worker who provided differing accounts of his alleged injury and how he provided notice to his employer. ...Read More | |||
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No Catastrophic Injury Designation for Former Clerical Worker | 03/20/2019 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that a clerical worker failed to prove her entitlement to a catastrophic injury designation because of limitations in the use of her dominant hand. ...Read More | |||
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New Presumption Bill Lists Most Known Cancers | 03/14/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Texas firefighters for years have protested that the state's cancer presumption law has holes in it big enough to let municipalities succeed in denying most claims. ...Read More | |||
