Florida's Three-Member Panel is again asking the Legislature to step aside on medical reimbursement rates, but the panel stopped short of asking lawmakers to fix
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Like lawmakers in many states facing mounting deficits in their second-injury funds, the Missouri legislature has taken a number of steps through the years to
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed how businesses operated in 2020, and many of those changes will likely stick around after the virus is gone, experts from the
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Washington state lawmakers have introduced two bills that would cap future cost-of-living adjustments for workers’ comp benefits and allow parties to settle claims via a lump
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A labor leader and a claimants' attorney say President Biden's order to revamp COVID-19 workplace guidance could help reduce the spread of the disease and
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As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year milestone in the U.S., commissioners at the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board say they’ve used their lockdown time
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If 2020 was tough on workers' compensation premium, 2021 may not be much better, thanks to long-term economic shifts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the
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Proponents of a bill that would allow claimants in Washington state to record independent medical exams said during a hearing on Thursday that doing so
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Florida's Three-Member Panel, the quasi-government group charged with deciding workers' compensation medical reimbursement rates, has surprised stakeholders by doing something it has rarely done in
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Applications for independent bill review fell below 2,000 in 2018 and 2019 for the first time since the process started in 2013, according to a
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