Workers' Compensation News
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Res Judicata Doesn't Bar Employer's Claims Against Former Comp Carrier | 08/22/2024 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that the doctrine of res judicata did not bar an employer’s claims against its former comp carrier for allegedly misleading it into believing it still had coverage after its policy was canceled. ...Read More | |||
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Roofing Material Supplier Fined $92,226 for Fall Hazards | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a building materials supplier $92,226 for repeatedly failing to protect workers from potential fall hazards that it said could seriously injure or kill them. ...Read More | |||
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Rand Estimates Liabilities of $7.9B for SIBTF | 08/07/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 4 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Rand Corp. in a report posted to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation website estimates that the mid-point of total liabilities for claims filed against the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund between 2010 and 2022 is $7.9 billion. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Union Says CrowdStrike Outage Halted Payments to 9/11 Responders | 07/25/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New York Daily News reports that union officials are claiming that 9/11 first responders have not received workers’ compensation bene...Read More | |||
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Railway Worker Loses Challenge to Dismissal of Retaliation Claim | 07/23/2024 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals denied review of a railway worker’s challenge to the dismissal of his claim he had been terminated in retaliation for his successful pursuit of a Federal Employers Liability Act claim against his former employer. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Former Postal Worker Sentenced to Probation for Fraud | 07/23/2024 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former U.S. Postal Service worker in Delaware was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $94,000 in restitution for defrauding the federal workers’ compensation program, according to the Associated Press. ...Read More | |||
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Report: DOE Awards New Contract for Hanford Comp Claims | 06/25/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Department of Energy picked a new company to administer workers’ compensation claims from the Hanford nuclear storage facility in Washington state, according to a report by the Tri-Cit...Read More | |||
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Report: Clearwater Cop Arrested for Alleged Comp, Pension Fraud | 06/21/2024 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A police officer in Clearwater, Florida, was arrested after investigators allegedly observed him engaging in activities that contradicted the limitations he cited when seeking workers’ compensation benefits and a disability pension, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Regulatory Preamble Can Support Award of Black Lung Benefits | 06/14/2024 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that an administrative law judge did not err in relying on a regulatory preamble to support an award of black lung benefits to a veteran coal miner. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Lawmaker Failed to Report Outside Employment While Collecting Comp | 06/13/2024 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Connecticut Insider on Wednesday reported that a state lawmaker received more than $100,000 in workers’ compensation benefits despite having three outside sour...Read More | |||
