Workers' Compensation News
| Supreme Court Denies Litigation Expenses for Worker who Won Disability Discrimination Claim | 05/14/2020 | ||
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Missouri Supreme Court overturned an award of litigation expenses to an injured worker on his disability discrimination claim. ...Read More | |||
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Study: Outpatients in States With Limiting Fee Schedules Pay Less for Hospital Care​ | 05/13/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| States with fee schedules setting payments for outpatient hospital services see smaller bills than states that don't have fee schedules at all, according to study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. ...Read More | |||
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Support, Opposition Building on NC Presumption Bill | 05/12/2020 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| North Carolina is set to become one of the latest states to provide a sweeping workers' compensation presumption for all essential employees who may be sickened by COVID-19, but business groups are marshaling their opposition to the bill. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Reinstates Denial of Benefits to Nurse for Back Injury | 05/11/2020 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Commission did not err in denying benefits to a nurse for a back injury that she failed to report for months after its occurrence. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Clarifies Process to Assign Experience Ratings to Successive Employers | 05/11/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a new employer should not have been assigned a former employer’s experience rating after purchasing the assets out of bankruptcy, since there was no common ownership, management, or control of the companies. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Clarifies Board's Authority to Adjust Attorney Fees | 05/06/2020 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board has the authority to adjust the fees payable to a worker’s attorney but abused its discretion to reduce an award to a veteran practitioner. ...Read More | |||
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Self-Represented Worker Can Reopen Settled Claim, Receive Additional Benefits | 05/06/2020 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a self-represented radio station employee was entitled to reopen her claim and request benefits for a knee injury from a car accident more than 20 years after she settled with her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Benefits to Worker With History of Back, Neck Issues | 05/06/2020 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the denial of benefits to an automobile manufacturing worker with a long history of back and neck issues predating her two alleged work injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Death Benefits to Worker's Biological Children | 05/05/2020 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that a worker’s two biological children were not entitled to death benefits to satisfy his past-due obligation for child support. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Overturns Denial of Benefits | 05/05/2020 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The South Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision concluding that the state workers' compensation commissioner erred in denying benefits to the worker because of a lack of credibility. ...Read More | |||
