Workers' Compensation News
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DWC Adopts Rules to End Remarriage Penalty for Spouses of First Responders | 09/03/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 314 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 8 min read | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation has made it official: Spouses of more peace officers killed on the job will be able to retain death benefits if they remarry. ...Read More | |||
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EEOC Says Company Discriminated Against Woman Over Her Comp Claim | 09/03/2020 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 610 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 8 min read | |||
| The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges that a nonprofit behavioral health center discriminated against a Florida woman because of her workers' compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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Law Officers Holding 'Action Week,' Walk to Spur COVID Presumption Order | 09/03/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 170 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 11 min read | |||
| The Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas is holding an "action week," designed to prompt lawmakers or the governor to adopt a COVID-19 presumption for first responders. ...Read More | |||
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Legislature Passes One COVID Presumption Bill Before Ending Session | 09/02/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 3049 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 146 min read | |||
| The California Legislature passed a bill that would create a rebuttable COVID-19 presumption for first responders, health care workers and other essential employees through 2022 before the regular session ended Monday at midnight. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB: Written Premium Down 5% in Q1 | 09/02/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 316 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 149 min read | |||
| California written premium for the first quarter of 2020 is about 5% below that for the first three months of 2019, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau reported Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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NCCI Recommends 5.7% Rate Cut for 2021; COVID Costs Not Considered | 09/02/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 240 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 57 min read | |||
| If stakeholders were hoping the National Council on Compensation Insurance was going to shed new light on the projected cost of COVID-19 claims in Florida, they may be disappointed. ...Read More | |||
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Court Clarifies Preclusive Effect of Doctors' Opinions | 09/02/2020 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 158 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 82 min read | |||
| The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a recommendation by a division-sponsored independent medical examiner to convert a worker’s schedule impairment to a whole person impairment did not have preclusive effect under the Workers’ Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Church Mutual Names Chief Claims Officer | 09/02/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 455 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 304 min read | |||
| Church Mutual Insurance Co. on Tuesday announced that Becky Hudzik-Presson was named chief claims officer. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Award of Benefits, Additional Treatment for Worker's Back Injury | 09/02/2020 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 118 | 0 | Popular with Medical | 10 min read | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of wage-loss benefits and additional medical treatment to a worker for a back injury despite a conflict in the medical opinions as to the cause of his ongoing issues. ...Read More | |||
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Man Pleads Guilty to Running Illegal Business Believed to Be Front to Avoid Comp | 09/02/2020 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 159 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 6 min read | |||
| A Utah man pleaded guilty to one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting businesses that federal prosecutors say likely existed to avoid employment taxes and workers’ compensation premiums. ...Read More | |||
