Workers' Compensation News
|
WCD Approves 2% Increase for Physician Services | 03/05/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division announced that it adopted a package of rules that will, among other things, increase the maximum allowable payment amounts for most physician services by an average of 2%. ...Read More | |||
|
Webinars Scheduled to Review Proposed Med-Legal Fee Schedule Changes | 03/04/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery and the California Workers’ Compensation Institute scheduled webinars to review proposed changes in the Medical-Legal Fee Schedule the Division of Workers’ Compensation intends to adopt April 1. ...Read More | |||
|
Workers' Comp Commission Wants to Retain $28.8M Budget for 2022 Fiscal Year | 03/04/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Officials from the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission have asked a state Senate committee for a $28.8 million dollar budget, identical to the previous fiscal year, according to a report from a Springfield news station. ...Read More | |||
|
Widow Can Compel Disclosure of Safety Consultant's Report on Fatal Accident | 03/03/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that a widow was entitled to compel the production of a report prepared by an independent consulting firm into the causes of her husband's fatal fall at a pharmaceutical plant. ...Read More | |||
|
WCIRB Submits Sept. 1 Regulatory Filing | 03/01/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Friday submitted a proposed Sept. 1 regulatory filing that would, among other things, lower the experience rating threshold. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker Struck by Falling Particleboard Gets Partial Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 02/24/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court awarded a worker partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claim based on his injuries from being struck by particleboard sheets that had fallen from a cart. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker Can Proceed With Only Some Claims Against Former Employer, Supervisors | 02/23/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court thinned out a plaintiff’s claims against his former employer and supervisors for their allegedly wrongful conduct in terminating him and evicting him from a work-provided apartment. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker Can't Use Out-of-State Settlement to Avoid Reimbursing WSI for Benefits | 02/22/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: ND | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that a worker could not avoid liability to reimburse Workforce Safety and Insurance after he received benefits for an injury from the Missouri workers’ compensation system. ...Read More | |||
|
WCB Schedules May 13 Hearing on Proposed Rule Changes | 02/22/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board will hold a virtual public hearing on May 13 on a package of proposed regulatory changes. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Fall | 02/19/2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for a fall from a ladder. ...Read More | |||
