Workers' Compensation News
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BWC Awards $695,000 for Workplace Safety Equipment | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 13 | 0 | |||
| Thirty Ohio employers have received a total of $695,144 in grants from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to buy equipment designed to reduce or prevent workplace injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Christopher McKeon to Head Everest's Risk Management Unit | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 48 | 0 | |||
| Everest Insurance has appointed Christopher McKeon, who is the company’s vice president and head of commercial casualty, to also lead its risk management unit. ...Read More | |||
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Premium Assessments to Increase in 2019 | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 28 | 0 | |||
| The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced that employer assessments need to increase next year to cover its costs of administering the state’s workers’ compensation system and workplace safety laws. ...Read More | |||
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Receipt of Comp Didn't Establish Entitlement to Additional Benefits | 10/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 31 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 1 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a police officer’s establishing entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits does not automatically entitle her to benefits under the General Municipal Law. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Specifies Evidentiary Burdens in Firefighter Cancer Presumption Cases | 10/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 26 | 0 | Popular with Vendor | 2 min read | |||
| A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week reduced the onerous burden of proof that the Commonwealth Court had placed on firefighters suffering from cancer who sought benefits for their illness. ...Read More | |||
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Invalidation of Statutory Benefit Cap for 'Primary' Mental Injuries Didn't Bar Cutoff | 10/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 20 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 3 min read | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that the prior invalidation of a 100-week cap on benefits for “primary” mental injuries did not prevent a worker from seeing his benefits for a secondary mental injury cut off at the 100-week mark. ...Read More | |||
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Mercaldo, Former Comp Commissioner, Dies at 98 | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 68 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 1 min read | |||
| Clement Mercaldo, a Maryland workers' compensation commissioner throughout the 1970s and 1980s, died this week at his home in Towson. He was 98. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Committee Approves COLA for Public Safety Officers | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 36 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 3 min read | |||
| A bill that would provide cost-of-living adjustments for public safety workers' permanent disability and death claims has passed a second state Senate committee and is on its way to the floor. ...Read More | |||
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Hudgens Named IAIABC President | 10/22/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 20 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 9 min read | |||
| Abbie Hudgens, administrator of the Tennessee Bureau of Workers' Compensation, has been named president of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. ...Read More | |||
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Pleas for Adequate Compensation Dominate MLFS Hearing | 10/19/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 783 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 35 min read | |||
| OAKLAND, Calif. — The solution to concerns over abusive billing practices and low-quality medical-legal reports might just be more money. ...Read More | |||
