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Workers’ Comp Insurers Continue Cutting Their Rates

InterWest Insurance Services

Despite the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau recommending that benchmark rates in California be increased in the last two years, the rates that insurance companies are charging for coverage continue falling. As of June 30, 2022, the average charged rate for workers’ comp in California was $1.74

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Addison Lee ordered to pay deposits to continue workers’ rights case

Employee Benefits

An employment tribunal has ordered private hire cab and courier business Addison Lee to pay deposits of up to £125,000 to continue with its legal arguments in the workers’ rights case brought by hundreds of drivers. The post Addison Lee ordered to pay deposits to continue workers’ rights case appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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Understanding the Odd-Lot Doctrine in Workers’ Compensation Law: Origins, Evolution, and Modern Application

The Workcomp Writer

1009, where Judge Moulton apologetically introduced the term “odd lot” to describe injured workers who, while not completely incapacitated, were “so injured that [they were] incapable of becoming ordinary workmen of average capacity in any well known branch of the labour market.” Hall , [1911] 1 K.B. Decorative Co. , 522, 130 N.E. 220, 214 P.2d

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Long Overdue Public Safety Worker Coverage

Workers' Compensation

Legislation has been reintroduced to provide workers’ compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed an occupational illness or injury flowing from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Plainly, the composite employment incidents reveal that New Jersey's interest is more than fleeting and casual.”

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Four Secrets to Recruiting and Retaining the Class of 2014

Achievers

Millennials are driven, motivated, and more educated than any other group in history – and this year’s graduating class marks a critical time for employers. What can employers do to ensure that the bright and energized class of 2014 will want to work for them? Yes, the Class of 2014 just finished school.

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Divided R.I. High Court Says Workers’ Comp Release Was Sufficiently Broad to Bar Discrimination Claim Against Employer

The Workcomp Writer

The majority held the terms of the release signed by the injured worker were unambiguous and clearly released the employer from all claims that the worker might be able to file against the employer, including those that might be filed with the state’s Human Rights Commission. Background. Motion for Summary Judgment.

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Range of Compensable Consequences in Workers’ Compensation: An Expanded Summary

The Workcomp Writer

Direct and Natural Consequence Rule A distinction must be observed between causation rules affecting the primary injury and causation rules that determine how far the range of compensable consequences extends, once the primary injury is causally connected with the employment. 30, 2014)). 30, 2014)). In Haftsavar v. 593, 721 S.E.2d