Workers' Compensation News
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State Fund Begins Construction of Solar Energy Program | 05/20/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| State Compensation Insurance Fund announced that construction has started on an extensive sustainability and solar energy program that includes solar, electric vehicle charging stations and energy storage at seven locations throughout California. ...Read More | |||
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Seasonal Worker Charged With Double Dipping | 05/19/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Prosecutors in Northern California filed two felony charges against a seasonal worker who was allegedly observed working on the same day as a deposition during which she denied having outside employment while receiving temporary disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Revives Part of Worker's Claim for Additional Medical Benefits | 05/19/2021 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court overturned a denial of medical benefits to a self-represented worker for a shoulder injury but affirmed the denial of benefits for his back injury. ...Read More | |||
| Stakeholders Split on Utility of Longer QME Report-Writing Course, In-Person Lectures | 05/18/2021 | ||
| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Some California comp stakeholders and industry watchers say proposed rules that would lengthen report-writing courses and eliminate some remote-learning options for qualified medical evaluators might not lead to more quality reports, according to comments submitted to the Division of Workers&rsqu...Read More | |||
| State Employer Can Claim Pension Benefit Offset to Worker Based on Another Agency's Contributions | 05/18/2021 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a state employee’s workers’ compensation benefits were properly subjected to an offset for the pension benefits he was collecting, which had been funded in-part by his employer, and by a different state agency for whom he had previousl...Read More | |||
| Safety Organization Calls on CDC, OSHA to Clarify Mask Policy | 05/18/2021 | ||
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| An occupational safety and health organization is calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to clarify whether employers should maintain mask-wearing for employees in light of the federal government’s recent rollback on mask requir...Read More | |||
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Survey: Comp Professionals Expect Telemedicine, Analytics Will Grow Over Next Decade | 05/17/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Roughly 70% of workers’ compensation professionals expect the use of telemedicine or automated practices such as predictive analytics to grow over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent survey of industry workers. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Sends School Employee's Claim of Injury Back to OWC | 05/11/2021 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Louisiana appellate court ruled that the Office of Workers' Compensation erred in dismissing a school board employee’s claim that he was injured by workplace exposure to toxic mold. ...Read More | |||
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Sept. 1 Rate Filing 'One of the Most Challenging' for WCIRB, Chief Actuary Says | 05/10/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s inaugural Sept. 1 pure premium rate filing was one of the most difficult in the bureau’s recent history because the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every component of California’s comp system, WCIRB actuaries said....Read More | |||
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Subcontractor Gets Dismissal of Labor Law, Indemnification Claims | 05/10/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a construction subcontractor was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the Labor Law claims filed against it, as well as cross-claims for indemnification. ...Read More | |||
