Workers' Compensation News
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Outcome of Arbitration for Heart and Lung Benefits Isn't Binding on WCJ | 04/07/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Commonwealth Court is sticking to its prior determination that a workers' compensation judge is not bound to recognize a disability that served to secure an award of benefits for a prison guard trainee under the Heart and Lung Act. ...Read More | |||
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One-Month Grace Period Remains for Nonsubscribers to File Forms | 03/30/2017 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is offering a temporary grace period to employers that don’t provide workers’ compensation coverage but have failed to file two required reports. ...Read More | |||
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Opioid Task Force to Convene First Meeting | 03/29/2017 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The North Carolina Industrial Commission will hold the first meeting of its Opioid Task Force on April 6. The commission formed the task force in F...Read More | |||
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Only Thing Between Firefighters and Cancer Payouts is Governor's Signature | 03/29/2017 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A bill that would award firefighters diagnosed with work-related cancers lump sum payments of up to $25,000 is awaiting Gov. Nathan Deal’s signature. ...Read More | |||
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Out to Catch Comp Fraudster, PI Finds Murderer Instead | 03/28/2017 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A private investigator working for a workers' compensation carrier captured video of a murder while looking for evidence that a worker was faking his claim last year, Newport News newspaper ...Read More | |||
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One Comp Measure Fails, Another Moves to Senate | 03/24/2017 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that sought to expand employer subrogation rights and allow employers to cut off benefits to claimants fired for misconduct failed to win the two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives needed for passage. ...Read More | |||
| OIR Seeks Proposals From Designated Statistical Agents | 03/23/2017 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued a request for proposals to find a designated statistical agent for workers’ compensation and employers’ liability insurance. Responses to the RFP, along with required documents, are due by April 27. The OIR expec...Read More | |||
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OSHA Newsletter Reveals Enforcement Activity Has Continued | 03/22/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio printing facility received multiple safety citations from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a worker suffered an amputation, and another worker’s finger was fractured in a printing press. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA: Confined Spaces, Excavation Lead to More Deaths | 03/17/2017 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched 12 fatality investigations in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska since Oct. 1 — an increase from seven investigations of fatalities during the same period a year ago. ...Read More | |||
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Officer's Pulmonary Hypertension Wasn't Presumptively Caused by World Trade Center Exposure | 03/16/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York Court of Appeals ruled that a police officer with disabling pulmonary hypertension was not entitled to a presumption that his condition was caused by exposure to contaminants in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. ...Read More | |||
