Workers' Compensation News
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No Benefits for Traveling Worker Unable to Explain Why She Was at Site of Accident | 06/29/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the denial of benefits to a traveling worker who was unable to explain why she was in the location where she suffered injuries in a car accident. ...Read More | |||
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NYCIRB Updates Constitution to Account for Change in Annual Meeting Date | 06/28/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board has tweaked its constitution, changing the date of the annual meeting, adding a bullet point to its list of organizational goals and removing language that referred to policies in place before 2012. ...Read More | |||
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NCCI: Residual Market Accounted for 6.1% of Direct Written Premium in 2016 | 06/20/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The residual workers' compensation market accounted for 6.1% of direct written premium in National Council on Compensation Insurance states in 2016, down slightly from 6.3% in 2015. ...Read More | |||
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Nurse's Claimed Inability to Sit Without Pain Refuted by FCE, IME, Observation | 06/14/2017 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A nurse who received temporary total disability benefits for about five years after falling on her tailbone lost the benefits after a functional capacity evaluation cleared her to return to light-duty work. ...Read More | |||
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No Sick or Vacation Time for Recovering Correctional Officers | 06/08/2017 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Correctional officers out on workers’ compensation leave are not entitled to accumulate sick leave and vacation time during their absence, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Newspaper Editorial Board Endorses New Injured Officers' Charity | 06/07/2017 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Mexico's largest newspaper has endorsed a new charitable foundation that gives money to police officers who were wounded or traumatized on the job. ...Read More | |||
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No Accidental Disability Retirement Benefits for Police Officer With Series of Back Injuries | 06/06/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of accidental disability retirement benefits to a police officer who suffered a series of back injuries after the on-duty car accident he blamed for causing his disability. ...Read More | |||
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New Haven Man Charged With Workers' Compensation Fraud | 06/05/2017 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State workers' compensation fraud investigators have accused a New Haven man of exaggerating his injuries on a workers' compensation claim in order to collect $12,500 in benefits, the state's criminal justice division announced Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Worker Who Prompted Fight by Making Lewd Comments | 05/31/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to benefits for his injuries from a fight with a colleague he had been antagonizing with graphic descriptions of lewd homosexual acts . ...Read More | |||
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Number of Accidents, Costs Continue to Decrease | 05/31/2017 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The number of workplace accidents continues to drop and has fallen 23.2% since 2007, the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court says. In 2007, t...Read More | |||
