Workers' Compensation News
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IAIABC Offers EDI Training | 09/12/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions is offering electronic data interchange training. The EDI Claims...Read More | |||
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Senate Sends Contractor Coverage, Stone Slab Bills to Governor | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate unanimously approved Assembly amendments to bills dealing with contractor coverage requirements and safety standards for silica exposure and manufactured stone. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Farmworker, Presumption Bills Returning to Assembly for Concurrence | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate passed bills that would extend the heart trouble presumption to certain state hospital workers and presume that heat injuries are compensable for agricultural workers, sending the measures back to the Assembly for concurrence with recent amendments. ...Read More | |||
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Actuarial Committee to Explore Cumulative Trauma Claims | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Actuarial Committee for the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California will discuss strategies for more quickly identifying trends with cumulative trauma claims during a meeting on Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Staffing Agency Liable for Benefits After Worker's Fatal Accident | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a staffing agency was liable for the payment of benefits for a worker’s fatal accident. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Entitled to Dismissal of Claim Due to Worker's Failure to Act | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that an employer was entitled to the dismissal of a worker’s claim based on her failure to receive or seek benefits, including medical treatment, for a period of six months after her claim was filed. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Attorney's Claim of Entitlement to Additional Fees | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected an attorney’s assertion that he was entitled to additional fees for successfully defeating an employer’s intoxication defense to a worker’s claim. ...Read More | |||
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DCBS Cutting Rates 3.3% | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services said employers will pay an average of 3.3% less for workers’ compensation coverage next year. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Doesn't Prove Compensable Knee Injury | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a judge did not suffer a compensable knee injury while descending a flight of stairs. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Lacks Jurisdiction to Alter Fee Award to Worker | 09/10/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that the Division of Workers’ Compensation lacked jurisdiction to alter an attorney fee award and impose it against an insurance carrier instead of having the fees paid from an injured worker’s supplemental income benefits. ...Read More | |||
