Workers' Compensation News
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Assessment Rate to Drop 22% | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that a 22% drop in the workers' compensation assessment rate is projected to save state employers about $191 million in 2025. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Division Approves 4.3% Loss Cost Cut | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Colorado Division of Insurance announced a 4.3% average loss cost decrease for workers' compensation policies incepting in 2025. ...Read More | |||
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Double-Dipping State Trooper Pleads Guilty to Larceny | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| The Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice announced that a former state trooper who operated a silk-screening business while receiving temporary disability benefits pleaded guilty to two counts of larceny. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Announces Ergonomic Rule Development | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced that it opened rulemaking for ergonomic regulations that would apply to airline ground crews. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Failed to Prove Extreme Hardship Warranting Reclassification | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of a worker’s request for an extreme hardship redetermination. C...Read More | |||
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Court Awards Worker Benefits for Back Injury, Authorizes MRI | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was entitled to benefits for a back injury, and that he was entitled to a magnetic resonance imaging scan as treatment for his injury. ...Read More | |||
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Expansion of Worker's Claim to Include Depression Didn't Increase His Loss of Earning Capacity | 10/31/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a determination that an injured worker was not entitled to an increase in his loss of wage-earning capacity after his claim was expanded to include his depression diagnosis. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Says Traveling Worker Suffered Compensable Fall While Souvenir Shopping | 10/30/2024 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a traveling worker was entitled to benefits for her injuries from a fall while leaving her hotel to go souvenir shopping. ...Read More | |||
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Inaccurate Credentials Don't Disqualify Vocational Expert | 10/30/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Pennsylvania court rejected an injured worker's request to disqualify a vocational expert on the basis that the expert's correspondence indicated he was a certified disability management specialist after his credential had expired. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Worker's Civil Suit Against Employer | 10/30/2024 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Idaho Supreme Court upheld the summary dismissal of an injured worker’s civil suit against his employer based on his injuries from a piece of farm equipment his employer had designed and built. ...Read More | |||
