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Issue Commentary: NY Decision Shows That Not All “Misrepresentations” Are Sufficient to Warrant Disqualification from Future Benefits

The Workcomp Writer

Following her injury, the claimant opened a scrapbooking shop with proceeds from her husband’s life insurance. Evidence that the injured worker was observed in her shop five times over a three-month period, both on the telephone and behind the cash register was insufficient to show fraud, Commission held. Workers’ Comp.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Other real expenses that are excluded from the “basket of goods” [in Canada, at last] are real estate and life insurance. To calculate the 2019 CPP rates increase, a formula based on the average national CPI for all items for November 2017 to October 2018 is divided by the average CPI for November 2016 to October 2017 yields a 2.68