Workers' Compensation News
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WCS to Use Graduated Fine Structure for Provider List Violation | 02/13/2025 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nevada Workers' Compensation Section announced that its Medical Unit will start assessing fines using a graduated schedule implemented last year when carriers fail to submit treating provider lists as required. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Restore Manicurist Exemption From Employee Status Test | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California lawmaker introduced legislation to restore licensed manicurists' exemption from statutory tests of employee status. Assemblymembe...Read More | |||
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Trench Collapse Leads to $529,640 in Fines for Smelly Mel's, Sewer Rat Plumbing | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued a combined $529,640 in penalties to employers Smelly Mel's Plumbing and Sewer Rat Plumbing for violating safety regulations that resulted in a trench collapse that seriously injured a worker. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Gets Fee Award for Attorney | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a fee award to an injured worker’s attorney. Miosotis Peralta worked for the Supreme Court 1st...Read More | |||
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Chiropractors Dominate Impairment Rating Assignments | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A new report by the Nevada Workers' Compensation Section shows that chiropractors performed about 80% of the evaluations to determine the extent of injured workers' disabilities in 2024. ...Read More | |||
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Matt West Named WCD Administrator | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services on Tuesday announced that Matt West was appointed administrator of the Workers’ Compensation Division, effective immediately. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Information Institute Says Underwriting Profitability Remains Strong | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Insurance Information Institute on Tuesday said the national workers' compensation industry continued its strong trend of underwriting profitability in 2023. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Bill to Clarify Home Health Service Employment Relationship | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Utah state House of Representatives passed a bill that would limit situations in which an entity could be designated as the employer of a person providing home health services. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds TTD Award for Worker's Wrist Injury | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a worker for his wrist injury. Ca...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Determination of Worker's SLU for Shoulder | 02/12/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned the Workers’ Compensation Board’s finding as to a worker’s schedule loss of use from a shoulder injury. ...Read More | |||
