Workers' Compensation News
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Report: Tesla Failed to Report Workplace Injuries | 04/17/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Electric car manufacturer Tesla failed to report numerous workplace injuries at its Northern California factory as part of what some workers told the Centers for Investigative Reporting was a company-wide culture that prioritized productivity over safety. ...Read More | |||
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Report From Psychologist Didn't Override Contrary Opinion From Different Expert | 04/17/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 2 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a psychologist’s opinion as to a worker’s inability to maintain any form of sustained remunerative employment did not invalidate a prior report from a different expert who concluded that the worker remained employable. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Poizner Ahead in Race for Insurance Commissioner | 04/16/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Steve Poizner leads the field of candidates to replace Dave Jones as California’s next insurance commissioner, according to media reports. ...Read More | |||
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Residential Yoga Program Helps Reduce Front-Line Worker Stress, Study Finds | 04/16/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A residential yoga program in Massachusetts is teaching “front-line” employees, including first responders, how to better manage stress, even as stress-related claims are figuring more prominently in workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Res Judicata Barred Worker From Re-Litigating Compensability of Knee Surgery | 04/11/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that the doctrine of res judicata barred an injured worker from seeking additional benefits and coverage for knee surgery after the Workers’ Compensation Commission had already rejected her medical evidence as insufficient to prove causation. ...Read More | |||
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Roofing Contractor Cited for Lack of Fall Protection | 04/09/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Escondido-based roofing contractor is facing $134,454 in proposed penalties for alleged repeat violations of fall protection safety standards. ...Read More | |||
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Rules Allowing Jockey Fund to Self-Insure Now Effective | 04/05/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New York Workers’ Compensation Board had adopted rules that allow the state’s Jockey Fund to self-insure the workers’ compensation risk of jockeys, apprentices and exercise riders involved in thoroughbred racing, according to a notice in Wednesday’s state Register....Read More | |||
| Rating Bureau Head to Retire After 38 Years | 04/04/2018 | ||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The man who has overseen workers' compensation rates and payroll audits for more than three decades will retire May 1. Frederick Huber will step down after seven years as executive director of the New Jersey Compensation and Rating Bureau. He has been with the agency for 38 years...Read More | |||
| Rutgers Law Review Recaps Grand Bargain Symposium | 04/02/2018 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Papers presented during a Rutgers law symposium on the workers’ comp "grand bargain" are now available in the Rutgers University Law Review. Materials from the Sept. 23, 2016, symposium are included in ...Read More | |||
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Rand Finds Half of Eligible Workers Applying for RTW Benefits, Recommends Automatic Payment | 03/29/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| More than 28,000 permanently disabled workers in California received a $5,000 check from the Return-to-Work Supplement Program created by Senate Bill 863, but that represents slightly more than half of those who are eligible, according to a ...Read More | |||
