Workers' Compensation News
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Court Continues to Reject Repetitive Constitutional Challenges to IRE Process | 09/17/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected yet another constitutional challenge to the state's new impairment rating evaluation process. ...Read More | |||
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DOL Orders Compensation for Workers Fired Over Safety Concerns, Misclassified as Contractors | 09/17/2024 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The U.S. Labor Department said it received more than $350,000 in back wages for workers at a Michigan construction company who were misclassified as contractors and for a truck driver in Virginia who was illegally fired after raising safety concerns. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Announces Increase in Retro Benefits | 09/17/2024 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division posted a bulletin announcing the annual increase in retroactive program benefits and the processes for calculating benefits owed to injured workers. ...Read More | |||
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Lack of Evidence Connecting Worker's Alleged Injury to Job Results in Denial of Claim | 09/17/2024 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Nebraska Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s claim because she failed to demonstrate a causal connection between her alleged injuries and her workplace accident. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Expand Claim, Receive Additional MRI | 09/17/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s request to expand his claim and for authorization for a magnetic resonance imaging scan. ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Not Obligated to Pay Worker's Belatedly Submitted Bills | 09/17/2024 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that an insurance carrier had no obligation to pay a worker's medical bills that were submitted more than 45 days after the treatments were rendered. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Fraud Results in Award Declared Overpayment | 09/16/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court rescinded a worker’s award of permanent total disability benefits, finding he had engaged in fraud by collecting compensation while he was working. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Increase in Worker's Award for Back Injury | 09/16/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld an increase in a worker’s award of benefits for a back injury. Case:...Read More | |||
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Employer Must Pay for Worker's Self-Developed Treatments of Decades-Old Back Injury | 09/16/2024 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the compensability of a former news reporter’s self-developed treatments for a decades-old back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Tower MSA Webinar to Cover Set-Asides | 09/16/2024 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Tower MSA Partners is holding a webinar Oct. 2 covering the ins and outs of Medicare set-asides. ...Read More | |||
