Workers' Compensation News
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Second Injury Fund Drives Most of Assessment Increase | 12/02/2021 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The program that provides additional compensation to injured workers who had pre-existing disabilities is driving nearly three-quarters of the increase in the total assessment the Department of Industrial Relations says it needs to collect from California employers for the current fiscal year....Read More | |||
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Salesman Entitled to PTD for Car Accident Injuries, but No Offset for Employer | 11/30/2021 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Utah Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent total disability benefits to a salesman for his injuries from a series of car accidents and denied his employer’s entitlement to an offset for recoveries from third-party tortfeasors. ...Read More | |||
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Self-Insured Reporting Threshold Increasing to $18,500 | 11/30/2021 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The threshold for self-insured employers to report claim loss data to the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division will increase next year to $18,500 from $18,000. ...Read More | |||
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Sheriff's Reserve Officer Charged in $17M Premium Fraud Case | 11/22/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former sheriff’s reserve officer was charged with operating one of his security companies without workers’ compensation insurance and underreporting his payroll for another firm, according to a report by the ...Read More | |||
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Smithfield Agrees to Change Health Procedures, Training | 11/22/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp., the country’s largest pork processor, has agreed to assemble a team of company and third-party experts to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that the company will implement at each of its processing facilities nationwide as part of a settle...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Suspends Defense Attorney for Coaching Witness in Deposition | 11/19/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday suspended an Orlando-area workers’ compensation defense attorney for coaching a witness via text message during a deposition. ...Read More | |||
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Selection Commission Starts Process to Fill Comp Court Vacancy | 11/19/2021 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commission on Judicial Selection has started the process of filling a pending vacancy on the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Committee Holds Vaccination Presumption Bill | 11/18/2021 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: ID | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Members of an Idaho Senate committee on Wednesday hit the brakes on a measure that would create a presumption that adverse reactions to employer-mandated vaccinations are compensable injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Adopts Traveling Employee Doctrine, Remands Case for Fact-Finding | 11/18/2021 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Pennsylvania Supreme Court formally adopted the traveling employee doctrine and addressed its parameters before remanding a case for further factual findings on whether a salesman abandoned his work for the day before he was injured. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Awards PTD Benefits to Worker, Upholds Denial of Reimbursement for Surgery | 11/17/2021 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that an injured worker was entitled to permanent total disability benefits after a back injury and several unsuccessful efforts to alleviate his pain, but he was not entitled to reimbursement for an operation. ...Read More | |||
