Workers' Compensation News
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BWC Preps $1.3 Billion in Dividends to Employers | 10/22/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 100 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 155 min read | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation announced it will soon be sending more than $1.3 billion in dividends to public and private employers across the state. ...Read More | |||
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Sing Sing Officer Charged With Faking Medical Reports to Get Benefits | 10/22/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 111 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 65 min read | |||
| A correctional officer at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility has been charged with submitting false medical records in order to obtain workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Claimants' Attorney Disbarred Five Years After Complaint Was Filed | 10/22/2020 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 152 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 39 min read | |||
| A longtime South Carolina workers' compensation and injury attorney has been disbarred after he failed to maintain trust accounts, according to the state bar and the state court system. ...Read More | |||
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Applied Underwriters Sues CDI, Lara Over Conservatorship Efforts | 10/21/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 494 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 90 min read | |||
| A day after the California Department of Insurance’s Conservation and Liquidation Office presented to the San Mateo County Superior Court its plans for California Insurance Co., a company formerly affiliated with the embattled carrier filed a lawsuit with the federal court in Sacramento acc...Read More | |||
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WCIRB: Payroll Exclusion Rule, COVID-19 Shutdown Don't Negate Physical Audit Requirements | 10/21/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 343 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 34 min read | |||
| Physical audit requirements are not being waived because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California said Tuesday during an online presentation meant to clarify a payroll exclusion rule. ...Read More | |||
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Bay Area Man Gets Jail for Workers' Comp Fraud | 10/21/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 993 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 28 min read | |||
| A Daly City electrician will serve 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to workers’ compensation insurance fraud, the California Department of Insurance announced Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Releases 2020 Stats Report | 10/21/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 219 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 107 min read | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California issued its unit statistical report data submitted for policy years 2003 to 2017. ...Read More | |||
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COVID Presumption Bills in Minnesota, Pennsylvania Still Alive | 10/21/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 322 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 36 min read | |||
| While the wave of COVID-19 presumption measures seems to have slowed around the country, bills in two states could see some action before the year is out. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Worker's Labor Law Claims | 10/21/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 139 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 57 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court reinstated a worker’s Labor Law claims, finding his work of delivering equipment to a construction site did not necessarily fall outside the ambit of the Labor Law, and that there were triable issues that still needed to be resolved. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Doesn't Assert Viable Labor Law Claim for Fall | 10/21/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 86 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 44 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action were entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claim based on her injuries from a fall caused by her lanyard being caught on the handrail of a scaffold. ...Read More | |||
