Workers' Compensation News
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Worker Who Refused Job Offer Can't Get TTD Award | 11/20/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker is not entitled to temporary total disability benefits if she rejects her employer's offer of suitable alternative work for reasons unrelated to her injury, even if done in good faith. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Schedules Hearing on Permanent COVID Claim Processing Rules | 11/20/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division is holding a hearing in January to gather testimony on proposed permanent rules identifying what constitutes a reasonable investigation for COVID-19 claims. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Claim From Sinking Into Trench | 11/20/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for an injury he sustained from sinking into an unguarded, backfilled trench. ...Read More | |||
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Worker With Injuries to Knee, Hip Gets SLU Award | 11/19/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the calculation of a worker’s schedule loss of use award for an injury to his knee and hip as based on the loss of use of a leg. ...Read More | |||
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With Falling Comp Rates, Attorney Fee Caps May Not Be Burning Issue for Lawmakers | 11/19/2020 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Florida legislative leaders have signaled that workers' compensation costs may not be such a hot-button issue when lawmakers convene again in March. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Study Links Treatment Delays to Higher Claim Costs | 11/18/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A recent study by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California found that claims with delays in medical treatment have higher medical and indemnity costs, slower claim closure rates, longer temporary disability duration and are more likely to end in permanent disability.&...Read More | |||
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Woman Sentenced to Year in Jail After Cashing Deceased Dad's Benefits Checks | 11/18/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A woman in western New York must spend up to a year in jail and pay restitution after she was sentenced Monday for cashing her dead father's workers' compensation checks. ...Read More | |||
| Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Fall on Stairway | 11/16/2020 | ||
| Source: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a construction worker for his injuries from a fall from the top step of a stairway leading to his elevated work area. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Should Have Additional Conditions Included in Claim | 11/13/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a worker was entitled to benefits for a head injury, radiculopathy and two disk herniations after an accident at a coal mine. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Can't Challenge Order to Submit to Exam Despite Invalidation of IRE Process | 11/13/2020 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker could not take an immediate appeal from an order compelling his attendance at an impairment rating examination after the IRE provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act had been invalidated. ...Read More | |||
