Workers' Compensation News
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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| An Ohio appellate court rescinded a worker’s award of permanent total disability benefits, finding he had engaged in fraud by collecting compensation while he was working.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 | |||
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Defendants Get Summary Dismissal of Suit Over Ladder Accident | 09/16/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment for the defendants in a Labor Law case. Case: Acevedo-Espinosa v. ...Read More | |||
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Cabinet Maker Fined $187,000 for Refusing to Abate Hazards | 09/16/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined a cabinet maker $187,000 after finding that the company did not fix safety violations that led to similar citations in 2019. ...Read More | |||
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Trial Court Did Not Abuse Discretion in Considering New Evidence, Remanding Case | 09/13/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A trial court did not abuse its discretion when it reviewed new medical reports finding that a man was unable to return to work and in ordering San Francisco’s retirement system to review his related retirement application, a California appeals court ruled. ...Read More | |||
| WCIRB Actuarial Committee Meets Tuesday | 09/13/2024 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Actuarial Committee will review insurer experience reports during a meeting Tuesday. Committee members will discuss the report evaluating insurer experience as of June 30, as well as the diagnostics that wi...Read More | |||
