Workers' Compensation News
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American Financial Group Posts Higher Earnings on Strong Insurance Results | 05/04/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 482 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 13 min read | |||
| Specialty insurer American Financial Group Inc. has reported $101 million in net earnings in the first quarter ending March 31, a huge jump from $19 million in the same period of 2015. ...Read More | |||
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Court Gives Plaintiffs Last Chance to Correct RICO Complaint | 05/03/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 2144 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 10 min read | |||
| A federal judge for a third time dismissed a civil racketeering complaint accusing two California cities of conspiring with their administrators to thwart efforts of first responders to receive workers’ compensation benefits for their claimed injuries. ...Read More | |||
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District Attorney Launches PSA on Underground Economy | 05/03/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 972 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 12 min read | |||
| The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office launched a public service announcement aimed at shining a light on contractors who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Use of Home Remedy Didn't Sever Link to Industrial Cause of Gangrenous Foot | 05/03/2016 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 677 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 10 min read | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court ruled last week that a worker's decision to pop a blister on his foot did not allow his employer to avoid liability for his subsequent development of gangrene, which led to the amputation of his toe. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney: Comp Carrier Pays for Medical Cannabis in a First for Minnesota | 05/03/2016 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: MN | Segment: Top | 1342 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 18 min read | |||
| In what may be a first in workers’ comp in Minnesota — and one of a only small number of cases outside of New Mexico — an insurance company has reportedly paid for an injured worker’s use of medical cannabis to treat muscle spasms and chronic pain. ...Read More | |||
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Office Manager Pleads Guilty to Complicity in Fraud | 05/03/2016 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 351 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 1 min read | |||
| An Ohio woman paid restitution to the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for helping a claimant defraud the bureau by paying him cash for his work while he was receiving worker's compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Says General Contractor Was Immune From Suit by Sub's Employee | 05/03/2016 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 381 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 23 min read | |||
| The Utah Supreme Court ruled that a general contractor was immune from civil liability to a subcontractor's injured employee because it had enrolled the subcontractor in its contractor-controlled insurance program. ...Read More | |||
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Academy Issues New Guidelines on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | 05/03/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 510 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 37 min read | |||
| New guidelines from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome do not recommend the routine use of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, for diagnosis. ...Read More | |||
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Comp Act Shielded Non-Subscribing Employer From Civil Liability to Temporary Employee | 05/03/2016 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 359 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 17 min read | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a non-subscribing employer who obtained a worker from a temporary staffing company was shielded from civil liability to that worker after he was injured in a warehouse accident. ...Read More | |||
| CNA's Net Income Drops 72% in First Quarter | 05/03/2016 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 524 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 4 min read | |||
| CNA Financial Corp. on Monday announced first-quarter net income of $66 million, a 72% drop from $233 million in the first quarter of 2015. CNA’s net written premiums for property and casualty held steady in the first quarter at $1.67 billion, the same amount as in the prior-year qu...Read More | |||
