Workers' Compensation News
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State Rep. Takes on Worker Misclassification | 03/18/2022 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State Rep. John Galloway says he will push for labor reform following a task force's recommendations to curb worker misclassification in Pennsylvania. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Tosses Challenge to Denial of PTD Benefits Because of Defects in Brief | 03/17/2022 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Supreme Court threw out a worker’s challenge to a decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission denying his claim for permanent total disability benefits from the Second Injury Fund due to deficiencies in his appellate brief. ...Read More | |||
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State Employee Accused of Workers' Compensation Fraud | 03/15/2022 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A Cromwell, Connecticut, woman faces charges that she collected workers' compensation benefits even though she was still working, according to a report by a CBS affiliate on Hartford. ...Read More | |||
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State Sets Comp Rate Reduction | 03/14/2022 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Arkansas businesses are set to see another rate decrease in workers' compensation insurance in 2022, Insurance Commissioner Alan McClain said in a press release Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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Subcontractor Not Liable for Worker's Electric Shock Injury | 03/14/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for an electric shock injury and that the electrical subcontractor for the project also should have been granted summary judgment dismissing the third-party claims for common-law indemnification...Read More | |||
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Slice Labs, Appalachian Underwriters Launch AERO Work Comp Insurance | 03/11/2022 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Slice Labs Inc. and Appalachian Underwriters Inc. announced the launch of AERO Workers’ Compensation Insurance. The product will be avai...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Says 'Bilateral Shoulders' Can't Be Added to Claim Without Diagnosis | 03/09/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to have “bilateral shoulders” added as a compensable component of her claim without a specific diagnosis. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Issues Scolding for Witness Misconduct, Finds Worker Was Denied Fair Trial | 03/09/2022 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a worker was denied a fair hearing where a defense expert refused to acknowledge anything that her treating physician had documented. ...Read More | |||
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Sedgwick Names Marwan Shiblaq President of Workforce Absence Division | 03/07/2022 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Sedgwick announced the appointment of Marwan Shiblaq as president of its workforce absence division. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Overturns Sanctions on Carrier, Vacates Home Modification Orders | 03/07/2022 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A narrowly divided Mississippi Supreme Court overturned a sanctions order against an insurance carrier that challenged a paraplegic worker’s entitlement to modifications of her home and vacated orders compelling the company to perform the changes after her death. ...Read More | |||
