Workers' Compensation News
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SUNZ Insurance Solutions Names Rick Leonard President | 05/19/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| SUNZ Holdings announced that Rick Leonard, former director of sales and executive vice president, was named the company’s president. ...Read More | |||
| Senate Committee Passes One COVID Presumption Bill, Votes Down Another​ | 05/18/2020 | ||
| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Senate committee last week passed a bill that its author said would be “the largest and most expansive presumption in the history of the state of California.” ...Read More | |||
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Senate Approves Presumption, X-Mod Bill | 05/18/2020 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| By a vote of 27-10, the New Jersey Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would provide a presumption that COVID-19 illness is work-related for most essential workers. ...Read More | |||
| Some Employers, Worker Advocates Seeing Red Over Insurers' Rosy Profit Report | 05/14/2020 | ||
| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Officials at the National Council on Compensation Insurance's annual symposium this week stressed repeatedly that the comp insurance industry is riding high as it sails into the COVID-19 recession, thanks to record profits and reserve funding. ...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Denies Litigation Expenses for Worker who Won Disability Discrimination Claim | 05/14/2020 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| 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 | |||
