Workers' Compensation News
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Voc Rehab Hearing Slated for March 27 in L.A.
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02/17/2009
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0
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Division of Workers' Compensation Acting Court Administrator Mark Kahn will conduct a hearing March 27 in downtown Los Angeles about a motion to consolidate a substantial number of vocational rehabilitation issues involving Labor Code section 139.5. Kahn, who is also the Presiding Ju...Read More
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Virginia Announces Paper Cancellation Forms Not Required
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02/10/2009
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State: VA | Segment: EAST | 0
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The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission posted notice that carriers no longer need to file the paper Form 45H, the state's notice of cancellation or nonrenewal.Based on its Dec. 19, 2008, agreement for electronic filing with the National Council on Compensation Insurance, t...Read More
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Vermont Distributes Final $105 Million in Ambassador Case
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02/05/2009
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State: VT | Segment: EAST | 0
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Vermont regulators announced Tuesday they have begun sending out the final $105 million in claims payments to former policyholders of failed carrier Ambassador Insurance Co. – ending an insolvency battle more than two decades old.The Vermont Department of Business, Insurance, Secur...Read More
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Veteran Former Insurance Chief Dies in Raleigh
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02/04/2009
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State: NC | Segment: EAST | 0
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Former North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long, the state's top insurance regulator for 24 years, died Monday from a stroke he suffered 11 days after leaving office.Gov. Bev Perdue's office confirmed that Long, 68, died Monday at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., from a strok...Read More
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Verdict Finding Delivery Drivers Independent Contractors Upheld
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01/27/2009
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The California 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a San Diego County jury's verdict that drivers for a delivery service were independent contractors, even though the company had terminated its employees and contracted with them to perform the same duties.Case:James W. Crist...Read More
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Vendor's Snafu Triggers Back Payments to Surgeons
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01/26/2009
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State: RI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor
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The failure of a Chicago-based medical cost-containment firm to adjust a part of Rhode Island's workers' compensation medical fee schedule to account for a 2008 cost-of-living adjustment has prompted regulators to order back payments to the state's surgeons.Matthew P. Carey, ...Read More
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Village Issues Summonses in Fatal Fall
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01/12/2009
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State: NY | Segment: Safety | 0
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Local officials in Southampton Village, N.Y., have issued two summonses to a concrete contractor in connection with the death of a construction worker killed when a retaining wall collapsed last Monday.Newsday reported that village officials have issued summonses to The Saldana's Con...Read More
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Volunteer Firefighter Goes Public with Comp Fight
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01/09/2009
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State: ME | Segment: EAST | 0
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A volunteer firefighter injured last year in a hotel fire in the coastal resort town of York, Me., has gone public with his months-long fight with a self-insured association representing the city over whether his injuries were work-related, according to local news reports.Seacoastonline....Read More
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Violation of Child Labor Law Not a Route Around Exclusive Remedy
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12/05/2008
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: WI | Segment: CENTRAL | 0
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The parents of a 17-year-old tow truck driver killed while unhooking a vehicle may not pursue a civil action against the employer even though the company violated child labor laws, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals Ruled.Case: The estate of Joshua Reif v. Automotive & Truck Ser...Read More
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Vietnamese Restaurants Charged with Cooking the Books
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12/05/2008
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State: NY | Segment: Fraud | 0
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed more than 600 counts of filing false records, receiving kickbacks and paying below the minimum wage against the owners of a pair of Vietnamese restaurants he said have shortchanged immigrant workers for more than a decade in a scheme that involved mil...Read More
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