Workers' Compensation News
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Split Supreme Court Reinstates Award for School Worker's Injuries | 05/28/2021 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court reinstated an award of benefits to a school employee who was injured in a fall as she returned from a smoke break off school property. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court to Address Carrier's Subrogation Right for Jones Act Benefits Paid in Error | 05/28/2021 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will weigh in on whether an insurance company lacks the right to subrogation for benefits paid to a worker under a Jones Act policy when he was found to have not been a seaman covered by the law. ...Read More | |||
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SIME Selection Panel Meeting in June, July | 05/28/2021 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The panel that selects physicians for the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board’s list of second independent medical examiners announced a schedule for summer meetings. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Portland Firefighter Presumption Bill | 05/26/2021 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Senate passed a bill that would give firefighters in Portland the same presumption that certain diseases are occupational in nature that other firefighters in the state have enjoyed since the 1960s. ...Read More | |||
| Study: Majority of Doctors Support Medical Pot for Pain | 05/25/2021 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Seventy-three percent of doctors surveyed in the U.S. believe in the use of cannabis as a medicine to treat pain, according to recent data published in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
