Workers' Compensation News
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Police Union Requests COVID-19 Presumptions in All States | 04/02/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The nation’s largest police union is asking governors in all states to work with lawmakers to create presumptions that law enforcement officers who contract COVID-19 did so while in the line of duty. ...Read More | |||
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Payment of Premiums Doesn't Turn Contractor Into Employee | 03/30/2020 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a physical therapist with a traumatic brain injury was an independent contractor ineligible for benefits, even though his alleged employer had been paying for workers’ compensation insurance coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Professor Recommends TRIA Amendments to Cover Pandemics | 03/27/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A professor at Butler University is recommending Congress expand the federal backstop for insurance losses caused by terrorism to also include coverage for pandemics. ...Read More | |||
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Pinnacol Distributes $70M in Dividends | 03/25/2020 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Pinnacol Assurance on Tuesday started sending dividend checks averaging $1,319 to employers throughout Colorado. The state-chartered carrier is dist...Read More | |||
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Bill in Limbo During Virus Restrictions | 03/25/2020 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A move to create a statewide prescription drug monitoring program in Missouri — the last state without one — is in limbo while coronavirus restrictions keep the legislature out of the Capitol. ...Read More | |||
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PTSD, Court Bills Fail, but Old Fund Measure Moves Forward | 03/24/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A plan to restructure the workers' compensation court system failed to pass the West Virginia legislature this year, as did a bill to make mental stress a compensable condition for first responders. ...Read More | |||
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Pinnacol Freezes Policy Cancellations, Provides Coverage for First Responders in Quarantine | 03/23/2020 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Colorado’s Pinnacol Assurance announced several actions it is taking during the coronavirus pandemic, including a one-month freeze on policy cancellations and providing benefits for first responders and health care workers who are quarantined. ...Read More | |||
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Patrick F. Robinson Announced as VP of Government Affairs for ODG by MCG Health | 03/18/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| ODG, an MCG Health company, has named workers' compensation attorney and judge Patrick F. Robinson as vice president of government affairs. Rob...Read More | |||
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Poll Shows Strong Support for Portable Benefits in Gig Industry | 03/13/2020 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Legislation that would dictate when workers can be classed as independent contractors, and other bills that would grant portable benefits to gig economy workers, have seen little action since they were introduced in New York and New Jersey this year. ...Read More | |||
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Presumption Bills on Deck for Senate Committee Hearing | 03/12/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement scheduled a March 25 hearing to review bills relating to presumptions for hospital workers and state firefighters, and to discuss a measure that would delay a study on the effects of exempting certain treatment from utiliz...Read More | |||
