Workers' Compensation News
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State Fund Launches AB 5 Resource Center | 02/28/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State Compensation Insurance Fund added information to its website to help employers determine how to classify their workers under California’s new employee status test. ...Read More | |||
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Service Insurance Holdings Announces Leadership Changes | 02/28/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Service Insurance Holdings announced three executive leadership changes that the company said is designed to support its long-term strategic goals. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes PTSD, Premium Credit Measures | 02/27/2020 | |
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| State: WY | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Wyoming Senate on Wednesday passed bills that would create a premium credit for employers that made all required workers’ compensation payments in 2019 and would allow firefighters, law enforcement and paramedics to file claims for mental stress. ...Read More | |||
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Sedgwick Founder Bob Young Dies at 83 | 02/27/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Robert “Bob” Young, the founder of a small California-based firm that became an international insurance company operating in 65 countries, died last week in Pinehurst, North Carolina, at the age of 83. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Additional Narcotic Pain Meds for Injured Worker | 02/27/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to additional narcotic pain medication to treat his injuries from an old slip and fall. ...Read More | |||
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Southern California Applicants' Attorney Alan Wax Dies at 60 | 02/24/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Alan Wax, a popular workers’ compensation attorney who co-headed a father-son firm in Southern California for more than 30 years, has died. He was 60 years old. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Permanently Disbars Attorney for Abandoning Clients, Forgery, Failing to Return Fees | 02/24/2020 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Supreme Court last week yanked an attorney’s law license for failing to return unearned fees, abandoning clients and stealing money from another lawyer. ...Read More | |||
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State Fund to Ramp Up Sustainability Efforts in 2020 | 02/21/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California State Compensation Insurance Fund likes to see green, but in 2020 it’ll be going green. The state’s largest workers&r...Read More | |||
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Senate Spikes PTSD Presumption for EMTs, Law Enforcement | 02/21/2020 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Mexico Senate sacked legislation that would have created a rebuttable presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational condition for law enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Approves Amended Bill Allowing Alternate Members of Appeals Board | 02/21/2020 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Utah Senate on Thursday passed an amended bill that would allow the governor to appoint members to the Labor Commission Appeals Board to fill in for other members who are not available. ...Read More | |||
