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Workers' Compensation News
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WCIRB Recommending 4.5% Rate Decrease | 08/09/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 372 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 92 min read | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau said Wednesday that it will file for a 4.5% decrease in the advisory pure premium to take effect on Jan. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Most Recent Employer Had Liability for Occupational Disease Claim | 08/09/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 114 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 3 min read | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that the SAIF Corp. was liable for a worker’s occupational disease claim as the insurance provider for the worker’s most recent employer. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Can't Assert Claim for 'Recurrence' of Non-Compensable Condition | 08/09/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 113 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 2 min read | |||
| The Commonwealth Court ruled that a worker could not assert a claim for a recurrence of an injury based on the aggravation of a condition that the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board found to be non-compensable. ...Read More | |||
| WC Court Redesigns Website With Google Forms, News | 08/09/2018 | ||
| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 144 | 0 | Popular with Employer | 8 min read | |||
| The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court has redesigned its website, offering the Google platform for forms and distribution of court news, the court announced this week. Previously bookmarked links to the court'...Read More | |||
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Worker Failed to Show Good Cause for Failure to Timely Provide Notice of Claim | 08/06/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 121 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 25 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker did not establish good cause to excuse his failure to timely provide notice of a claim against a public agency. ...Read More | |||
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Watchdog Group Wants Chicago WC Program Out of City Council Control | 08/06/2018 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 293 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 31 min read | |||
| A government corruption watchdog group has voiced its support for efforts to move Chicago's workers' compensation program out from under the control of a powerful city alderman. ...Read More | |||
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Weekly Maximum Rates to Increase Again for 2019 | 08/06/2018 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 174 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 15 min read | |||
| Jon Gelman The maximum weekly rate for 2019...Read More | |||
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With Old Fund Done, AG Closes WC Defense Division; 10 Staffers to Lose Jobs | 08/06/2018 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 136 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 5 min read | |||
| For decades, the West Virginia Attorney General's office acted as insurance defense counsel in workers' compensation claims. That was before the Legislature privatized the state's comp system in 2005. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Updates Regulatory Filing | 08/03/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 336 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 42 min read | |||
| California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau updated its proposed 2019 regulatory filing to revise wording for certain job classifications. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Alleged Illness From Mold Exposure Didn't Constitute Occupational Disease | 08/03/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 202 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 20 min read | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a clerical worker was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for an illness allegedly related to her on-the-job mold exposure, since her condition did not constitute an occupational disease within the meaning of the Louisiana Workers’ Com...Read More | |||
