Workers' Compensation News
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Sedgwick CEO David North to Keynote Workers' Comp Conference
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05/29/2013
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By: Workers Compensation Institute
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State: NA | Segment: | 619 | 0
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Editor’s Note: The 68th annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference will be held August 18-21 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Presented by the Workers’ Compensation Institute, the WCEC is the largest gathering of its kind in the nation and offers discipline-s...Read More
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Schwarzenegger's Workers' Comp 'Reform' Killed my Client
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05/23/2013
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By: Ernest A. Canning
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State: CA | Segment: | 2489 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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In a white paper issued in March, the California Federation of Labor called for reforms to "undo the damage" wrought by Senate Bill 899, a California GOP-sponsored workers' compensation "reform" bill that was touted by the Associated Press in April 2004 as “one of the biggest victories of ...Read More
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Setting Aside a Form 60
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04/22/2013
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By: Julia S. Hooten
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State: NC | Segment: | 798 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Dennis Ray Spivey was employed by Wright’s Roofing as a laborer for approximately three years. Wright’s Roofing contracted with AMS Staff Leasing, who provided workers’ compensation coverage for its employees whose employment had been reported to AMS. Spivey completed forms require...Read More
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SB 626 (Beall) Tackles SB 863 (DeLeon)
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04/18/2013
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By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann
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State: CA | Segment: | 546 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Senate Bill 626 (Beall) is to be heard on April 24 by the California state Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee chaired by the Hon. Ted Lieu. We recommend support.SB 626 is prompted by the passage and implementation of SB 863 (deLeon) from last year. SB 863, woefully tilted to...Read More
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Spinal Surgery Requests and the SB 863 Gap
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03/19/2013
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By: Timothy W. Rose
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State: CA | Segment: | 656 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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In an attempt to simplify the ever-confusing workers’ compensation world in the great state of California, our legislative branch drafted Senate Bill 863 in 2012. With the stroke of his pen, Gov. Brown enacted sweeping legislation, with effective and varying start dates for various provisions ...Read More
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SB 626 Restores Equity and Balance to Workers' Comp
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02/27/2013
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By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann
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State: CA | Segment: | 707 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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"How to Practice Medicine without a License" was the title of my op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 29, 2008. The inequities described in that piece have been operative ever since, but now legislation by Calif. state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, Senate Bill 626, will try to restore balance...Read More
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Smart Phone Recordings: Double Standard from the Petitioner's Bar?
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01/17/2013
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By: Shawn R. Biery
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State: IL | Segment: | 761 | 0
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We recently had an inquiry regarding a petitioner, at the request of his counsel apparently, surreptitiously recording the interaction and discussions during an independent medical examination. It is unclear to the writer if the M.D. didn’t put two and two together until after the exam as he d...Read More
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Supreme Court Reaffirms Arbitrator's Autonomy
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12/28/2012
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By: Joseph C. Nuzzo Jr.
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State: NA | Segment: | 731 | 0
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed a long-standing rule that an arbitrator must decide the validity of the terms contained in any employment contract or agreement containing a valid arbitration clause....Read More
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of TTC Benefits to Retired Employee
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12/04/2012
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By: Lisa G. Whittaker
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State: OH | Segment: | 556 | 0
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The Ohio Supreme Court issued a decision in State ex rel. Rouan v. Indus. Comm. in October making it clear that employees who retire, and thereby remove themselves from the workforce, for reasons unrelated to their workers' compensation claims are ineligible to receive Temporary Total Compensati...Read More
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