Workers' Compensation News
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Video Factors into Return to Work Decisions
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11/16/2005
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State: NA | Segment: Business | 0
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Doctors can now go to the videotape to get a
glimpse of workers in action before making their determination in return to
work cases.
Specialty Risk Services (SRS), one of the leading property-casualty third
party administrators for workers' compensation and general liability claims,
ha...Read More
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Victim Reps Doubtful About Asbestos Fund Bill
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11/16/2005
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State: NA | Segment: Politics | 0
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Leaders of victims' organizations have written to ranking U.S. senators warning that a proposed national asbestos trust fund is likely to go bankrupt and fail.
With the bill scheduled to be heard Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a half-dozen leaders of national victims' groups f...Read More
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VA Court: Hockey Fight Injury is AOE/COE
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11/04/2005
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State: VA | Segment: Courts | 0
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A professional hockey player that engages in fights on the ice is entitled to workers' compensation benefits, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled.In Norfolk Admirals vs. Ty A. Jones (No. 0050-05-4, 11/01/05) claimant, a right-hand-dominant,
twenty-two-year-old male, employed by t...Read More
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VIAW Announces New Director, Organizers
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10/31/2005
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State: CA | Segment: People | 0
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Voters Injured at Work has added longtime union activist Willie Howard of San Leandro to its board of directors and made appointments in the Santa Maria and Sacramento areas.
Howard had been the Oakland district chairman and is a member of the sheet metal worker's union. He teaches in the u...Read More
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VIAW Holding Town Hall Meeting in Sunnyvale Oct. 27
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10/14/2005
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State: CA | Segment: Events | 0
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VotersInjuredatWork.org is holding a "town hall meeting" with Assemblywoman Sally J. Lieber, D-Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley community of Sunnyvale, CA, on Oct. 27.
The organization said on its Web site that the meeting will be used to "highlight the problems in today's workers' comp...Read More
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Videotape Leads to Fraud Charges Against Housekeeper
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10/13/2005
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State: CA | Segment: Fraud | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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A workers' compensation claimant is scheduled to enter her plea today to four felony counts relating to her two insurance claims, American Commercial Claims Administrators said in a press release on Wednesday.
ACCA said Maria Grijalba, 34, of Fort Bragg was arrested on Sept. 13 for four f...Read More
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VIAW Schedules North, South District Meetings
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09/27/2005
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State: CA | Segment: Events | 0
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Voters Injured at Work plans two upcoming district meetings to discuss the effects of reforms on injured workers and how to respond.
VIAW will hold its second district meeting in Sacramento on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Sacramento Public Library. The meeting will last until 2:15 p.m. and...Read More
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VIAW Leader Caught in Random Act of Kindness
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09/23/2005
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State: CA | Segment: Other | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Injured worker activist Peggy Sugarman has gotten plenty of press attention over the years, but the latest write-up has nothing to do with workers' comp.
After reading a newspaper column about the elderly woman's plight, Sugarman and her husband, Ted, opened their home to a 76-year old Nica...Read More
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VIAW Calls Northern California Forum
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09/14/2005
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State: CA | Segment: Events | 0
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VotersInjuredatWork and the Contra Costa Building and Construction Trades Council will co-host a workers' compensation forum at 7 p.m. Thursday in Concord.
The event is at Contra Costa Water District board room, 1331 Concord Ave.
Organizers said the forum will deal with denial of ...Read More
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Virginia Retools Claims Law for 9/11 Crews
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09/08/2005
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State: VA | Segment: Politics | 0
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Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner signed a law Wednesday that allows rescuers who rushed to the scene of the Twin Towers attack more time to file for workers' compensation coverage.
"Sometimes legislation is just so obvious," Warner said of the bill.
Under the existing Virginia law, th...Read More
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