Workers' Compensation News
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Worker Can't Bring Tort Claim Against Employer's Shareholders, Officers | 12/21/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s tort claims for her injuries from an alleged fall at the property where she worked. ...Read More | |||
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WCRI Study on Low-Back Pain and PT Timing Could Be Roadmap for Stakeholders, Researchers Say | 12/18/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Workers Compensation Research Institute study on lower-back pain and the timing of physical therapy could serve as a guideline for stakeholders around the country who are looking to improve claims outcomes, researchers said. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Adopts Temporary Rules for New Medical Billing Codes | 12/17/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation Division adopted temporary rules implementing new medical billing codes that take effect at the start of 2021. ...Read More | |||
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WCAB Suspends Required Time Frames for Assignment of Walk-Through Cases | 12/16/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board on Tuesday issued an en banc decision suspending the requirement that each district office must have a designee available to assign walk-through cases during specified hours. ...Read More | |||
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Worker With Prior Knee Injury Gets Benefits for At-Home Injury From Hanging Christmas Lights | 12/16/2020 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld an award of benefits to a worker who hurt himself while hanging Christmas lights at home, finding his injuries were caused by the weakened condition of his knee from a prior work accident. ...Read More | |||
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WILG Webinar to Focus on How Different States Handle COVID-19 Claims | 12/15/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Michael Duff The Workers’ Injury ...Read More | |||
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WCD Announces Claims Processing Administrative Cost Factor for 2021 | 12/15/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The claims processing administrative cost factor will be 21.27% in 2021, the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division announced. The factor is ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Working on Obtaining Stat Code for Insurance Commissioner's COVID-19 Data Directive | 12/14/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Actuaries from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau say they’re working on obtaining a statistical code that will aid researchers and insurance carriers in processing COVID-19 claims data that California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara called for in his 2021 advi...Read More | |||
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Worker's Complaint Doesn't State Viable Claim Against Employer | 12/14/2020 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Rhode Island Supreme Court threw out a worker’s challenge to the dismissal of her civil suit against her former employer, finding that her 245-page complaint failed to assert any viable theories of recovery. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Group Says DWC in 'Alternate Reality' on Number of People Without Comp | 12/11/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Recent reports from the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation vastly underestimate the number of workers who have no benefits coverage and no protection in case of workplace injury, a worker advocacy group said this week. ...Read More | |||
