Workers' Compensation News
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Worker Gets Authorization for Updated MRI | 12/26/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the authorization of an updated magnetic resonance imaging scan of a worker’s lumbar spine. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Expand List of Presumptive Cancers for Firefighters | 12/26/2024 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Utah lawmaker introduced legislation that would expand the list of cancers that presumptively arise from service among firefighters. ...Read More | |||
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Written Premium Up, Average Charged Rate Increases | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Written premium and average charged rates for the first nine months of 2024 were both about 1% higher than they were in the first nine months of 2023, the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau said in its third quarter 2024 experience report. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Adds reCAPTCHA to Public Information Search Tool | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation on Friday announced that it added the reCAPTCHA widget to its public information case search tool to protect its systems from ongoing bot attacks. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request to Expand Scope of Back Injury Claim | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s request to expand the scope of his claim for a back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendant Gets Summary Judgment | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a Labor Law defendant was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claims against it but that the trial justice erred in vacating a prior grant of partial summary judgment against two other defendants. ...Read More | |||
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Filing Mistake Results in Supreme Court's Dismissal of Appeal | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: SD | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that an attorney's omission while electronically filing an appeal divested it of jurisdiction to hear the case. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Award for Hearing Loss, Plus Penalties, Fees | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld an award of benefits to a worker for his hearing loss, as well as an award of penalties and attorney fees. Cas...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Add Unpaid Interns to Those Not Covered by Comp | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oklahoma lawmakers introduced a bill for the 2025 session that would prevent unpaid interns and other workers from receiving workers' compensation benefits if they are injured. ...Read More | |||
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Mileage Reimbursement Rate Increases Jan. 1 | 12/23/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The amount California employers will have to reimburse injured workers for travel to medical appointments will increase to 70 cents per mile in 2025 from 67 cents per mile. ...Read More | |||
