Workers' Compensation News
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Bill Proposes 'Stay-at-Work' Program | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Alaska Division of Workers’ Compensation would be required to create a program through which rehabilitation specialists would develop plans to return injured workers to the employer-at-injury, under a bill introduced in the state Senate. ...Read More | |||
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Defendant Gets Summary Judgment Dismissing Claims Against Him | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an individual defendant was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a Labor Law action against him arising from a scaffold accident at a construction site. ...Read More | |||
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NCCI's Donnell Announces Retirement Plans | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| National Council on Compensation Insurance President and CEO Bill Donnell announced plans to retire in February 2025. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Not Entitled to Summary Dismissal of Third-Party Indemnification, Contribution Claims | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of an employer’s motion for summary judgment dismissing claims for indemnity and contribution by the defendant in an action filed by an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Statue of Limitations Bars Injured Worker's Malpractice Action Against Former Attorney | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld the dismissal of an injured worker’s malpractice action against his former attorney as time-barred. Cas...Read More | |||
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Measure Would Allow Coverage of Mental Injury Claims for First Responders, National Guard | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Police, firefighters, emergency medical service personnel and members of the Kentucky National Guard would not be required to show a physical injury to have a compensable claim for a mental injury, under recently introduced legislation. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Add Solid Waste Workers to Cancer Presumption | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hawaii lawmakers have introduced bills to expand the types of workers covered by presumptions of compensability and to expand the list of conditions that are presumed to have arisen out of employment. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Raise Pay for Doctors Treating Cops, Firefighters | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Florida lawmakers are deliberating a proposal to allow police and firefighters with presumptive injuries to select a medical specialist for treatment and to pay the selected doctor up to twice the rate authorized by Medicare. ...Read More | |||
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Double Amputation Leads to $156,259 Penalty | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced that a Vancouver construction company was fined $156,259 after a teenager lost his legs in a trenching accident. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Updates Physician Fee Schedule | 01/25/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation updated the physician and non-physician practitioner services section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule to adopt relevant 2024 changes in the Medicare payment system. ...Read More | |||
