Workers' Compensation News
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Geaney: Counsel's Failure to Comply With Rules Leads to Order for Petitioner | 11/06/2019 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 115 | 0 | |||
| Motions for medical and temporary disability benefits are urgent matters that are treated as such by judges of compensation. Because injured workers are not receiving benefits, motions for medical and temporary disability benefits require all parties to work swiftly to prepare for court hear...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: AB 749 and 'No Rehire' Provisions | 11/05/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 388 | 0 | |||
| Here’s something you may or may not have heard of, but that I’ve been getting several inquiries about: Assembly Bill 749. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What's in the Inbox? | 11/04/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 267 | 0 | |||
| The inbox has been stuffed with important new research and news. Here’s what most interested me. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: What's Left After Total Knee Replacement? QME Clarifies: Almost Everything | 11/01/2019 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 359 | 0 | |||
| Have you ever considered just what the phrase “total knee replacement” means? It seems so self-explanatory that any answer must be, “Well, it means the whole knee has been replaced.” ...Read More | |||
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Bobik: Insurtechs Racing for the Workers' Comp Cup | 10/31/2019 | |
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| Source: John Bobik | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 271 | 0 | |||
| The thoroughbred horse Spring Racing Carnival is in full swing in the state of Victoria, Australia, culminating in the running of the Melbourne Cup, “the race that stops a nation.” ...Read More | |||
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Castillo: The Scary Truth | 10/29/2019 | |
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| By: Michael Castillo | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 274 | 0 | |||
| The growth in the American workforce is being driven by older women, bringing to light new aspects of worker safety and care that must be addressed. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: One Call's Halloween Is Going to Be All Treats | 10/30/2019 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 85 | 0 | |||
| Thanks to a massive restructuring, One Call lives to fight another day. This is excellent news for the folks who work there; not so much for the original investors. ...Read More | |||
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Holden: Court Rules Return to Work May Not Prevent Vocational Disability | 10/28/2019 | |
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| By: Joshua G. Holden | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 181 | 0 | |||
| On Oct. 4, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals released its opinion in AMEC Foster Wheeler Kamtech Inc. v. Jimmy Chandler, wherein it upheld the trial court’s finding that the ...Read More | |||
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Geaney: Med Center Not Responsible for Injury to Nurse in Public Street | 10/25/2019 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 184 | 0 | |||
| In an important decision, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided on Oct. 16 that a nurse who was walking from work premises to a parking lot following her shift at Jersey City Medical Center/Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health was not in the course of employment when she was struck by a m...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Union Seniority Undercut by SB 899 | 10/24/2019 | ||
| By: CAAA Labor Committee | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 258 | 1 | |||
| When the Democrats in the state Legislature went along with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's so-called workers' comp reform, they severely undercut the principle of union seniority. Beginning right after the Civil War, railroad workers won seniority rights. By the turn of the century,...Read More | |||
