Workers' Compensation News
| Governor Signs Bill Authorizing Coverage for Audible Trauma | 07/01/2020 | ||
| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Workers’ compensation will provide benefits to first responders in Colorado who overhear traumatic events, under a bill Gov. Jared Polis signed into law. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Law That Seeks to Finally End Debate on Voluntary Abandonment | 06/23/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine enacted a bill aimed at clarifying benefit eligibility for claimants who can't work for reasons other than disabling injuries, a concept known as voluntary abandonment. ...Read More | |||
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Governor's Executive Order Creates COVID-19 Presumption | 06/19/2020 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order creating a presumption that COVID-19 is a compensable condition for some workers diagnosed with the disease. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Names Sean Egan Director of COVID-19 Workplace Safety | 06/10/2020 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed Sean Egan, who oversees the Workers’ Disability Compensation Agency and the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to serve as director of COVID-19 workplace safety. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Rebuttable COVID Presumption Into Law | 06/09/2020 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed into law a bill that creates a rebuttable COVID-19 presumption for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and health care providers. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs 3 COVID Relief Bills Into Law | 05/22/2020 | |
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| State: WY | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed three emergency relief bills into law this week in response to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Approves Chiropractor Services for Comp; Fee Schedule Bars Marijuana | 05/21/2020 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Starting Nov. 1, chiropractors can be reimbursed for treating injured workers, although the employer gets to choose which chiropractor treats. ...Read More | |||
| Governor Signs COVID Presumption | 05/01/2020 | ||
| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law a bill creating a rebuttable presumption that first responders and health care workers contracted COVID-19 during the course of employment. ...Read More | |||
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Georgia Adds Virtual Hearings; Illinois Changes Fee Schedule for Telemed | 04/28/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| From new fee schedules for telemedicine to more virtual court proceedings, states continue to make adjustments to the COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Here are some of the latest changes in the Midwest, South and East. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Commutes Sentence for 'Coingate' Convict | 04/21/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the sentence of a man sentenced for stealing more than $13 million from the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, according to a report by ...Read More | |||
