Workers' Compensation News
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Earnings from School Bus Driver's Summer Job Should Have Been Included in Her AWW | 04/15/2015 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
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| Employer Group Says 'Option' Bill now on Radar for 2016 | 04/14/2015 | ||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The employer lobbying group backing the “Tennessee Option” conceded Monday that state Sen. Mark Green’s voluntary comp bill won’t become law in 2015. “Legislation this big rarely passes in the first year in any Legislature,” Brent Buchanan, communicatio...Read More | |||
| Expert Panel Sees Opportunity for WC to Lead Health Care with Value-Based Reimbursement | 04/13/2015 | ||
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| When workers’ compensation professionals speak about health care, it’s often in the vein of how far behind the curve the system is in the treatment of injured workers than in other sectors of medicine. But a panel of experts meeting at a conference to be held in Las Vegas this...Read More | |||
| Employer Wasn't Barred from Litigating Causation after Worker Filed 2nd Claim Petition | 04/09/2015 | ||
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals overturned an order of sanctions against an employer for contesting causation for a worker's claimed disability and ruled that the employer's position in challenging the worker's first application for alternate care didn't bar it from disputing causation ...Read More | |||
| Ex-Police Officer Caught Doing Construction Work Can still Collect Disability Pension | 03/30/2015 | ||
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A police officer who was caught on tape doing construction work less than one month after taking a disability retirement from the police force is entitled to continue receiving his disability pension benefits unless and until the pension board votes to suspend or reduce them, a New York appellate...Read More | |||
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Employer's Procedural Error Was Fatal to Appellate Jurisdiction | 03/30/2015 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that an employer's failure to comply with the procedural rules for securing judicial review of an unfavorable decision by the Division of Workers' Compensation rendered the trial court's decision void, and thereby divested the appellate court of jurisdict...Read More | |||
| Employer-Carrier Confidentiality Bill Moving toward House Vote | 03/27/2015 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that would restore confidentiality to employer-carrier communications in Texas workers’ compensation cases may go to the House floor as soon as next week, with supporters hopeful that it will undo a 2012 Texas Supreme Court decision that they say undermined attorney-client privilege ...Read More | |||
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Employee Misclassification Lawsuits Hit Bay Area Home-Cleaning Services | 03/26/2015 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two web-based home-cleaning companies are facing lawsuits alleging they've misclassified employees as independent contractors, adding to the legal challenges such "sharing economy" services are facing in Bay Area courtrooms. ...Read More | |||
| Executive Nominations Committee Gives OK to Evans | 03/25/2015 | ||
| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission has welcomed Kathleen A. Evans as its newest commissioner, according to a notice on the MWCC website. Evans has yet to be confirmed by the full Senate, but the Legislature’s Executive Nominations Committee has approved the nomination ...Read More | |||
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Empire Underwriters Appoints Alternative Markets Director | 03/23/2015 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
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