Workers' Compensation

JUNE 19, 2022

The workers’ compensation system nationally has been challenged over the last two plus years of the COVID Pandemic. The multi-state administered workers’ compensation program is based on a litigious patchwork of state programs with varying degrees of eligibility, procedures, and benefits.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Court, ND California, 2020, alleged that the EPA had violated the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by failing to require companies to report their asbestos use. The rule will help to ensure that the EPA has the information it needs to track asbestos use and to protect workers and the public from asbestos exposure. Wheeler , 508 F.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

[Supplemental background for students of DMCCJ – Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work and DMCCL- Insurance and Other Benefits – Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences] Workers’ compensation insurers and legislators are taking the first steps in dealing with the COVID-19 crises.

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The Workcomp Writer

JULY 26, 2024

This decision marks another chapter in the ongoing saga of Prop 22, the 2020 voter initiative allowing ridesharing and delivery app companies like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. State of California , S279622, 2024 Cal. LEXIS XXX (July 25, 2024)].

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 28, 2022

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed a decision of the Superior Court that in turn had affirmed a decision by the state’s Industrial Accident Board (“IAB”) granting an employer’s petition for review as well as the IAB’s findings g that the claimant’s ongoing narcotic pain medications were no longer compensable [ Sheppard v.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 31, 2022

On May 19, 2020, claimant, a freight delivery driver, applied for workers’ compensation benefits on the basis of a COVID-19 diagnosis. Upon administrative review, the New York Workers’ Compensation Board affirmed. He returned to work on April 2, 2020. Background. The carrier appealed. Widespread Outbreak.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

She received medical and temporary disability benefits under Montana’s workers’ compensation system and continued working in Montana until 2020, when she moved back to Kansas. The court also addressed due process and full faith and credit claims raised by the Kansas Workers Compensation Fund. Relying on U.S.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

From July 27, 2020, to July 31, 2020, among other things, Foster administered COVID-19 tests to inmates and staff in the medical unit of Southern Regional Jail. On July 30, 2020, Foster attended a management staff meeting with the heads of each department in the jail. As of August 20, 2020, Ms. of WV, Inc.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 5, 2022

For decades workers and bystanders have been exposed to asbestos fiber and have tragically suffered asbestos-related diseases and death flowing from exposure to asbestos fiber. In December 2020, EPA issued a final risk evaluation that found unreasonable risks to human health from conditions of use associated with six categories of products.

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The Workcomp Writer

MAY 24, 2022

A New York appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that found an injured worker’s failure to disclose work-related injuries he sustained in 1998 and 2002, for which he received schedule loss of use awards, was the sort of misrepresentation prohibited by N.Y. Workers’ Comp.

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Empuls

JUNE 21, 2024

Moreover, 56% of the workers participated in the plans. The research also revealed that up to 77% of workers with access to employer-sponsored benefits, chose to participate in the program, increasing the take-up rate.   Allowed their participants to contribute $14 million and $15 million in 2020 and 2019, respectively. 

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Vantage Circle

JULY 13, 2021

Your employees deserve a reward system based on their needs rather than what you think is best for them. Reward systems need to reflect the needs and desires of workers, or else they will become unsustainable. Meaningful rewards create a sense of trust amongst workers. Start by recognizing what people want from work.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Stakeholders Face Challenges The numerous stakeholders of the workers’ compensation system have been repeatedly faced with episodes of increased infectious disease, and little has been done to take the necessary precautions against the hazardous consequences. Confusion has been left to rein unabated.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is, of course, one thing for a state to allow the use of marijuana in the treatment of injuries and diseases, but quite another to require employers and/or insurers to reimburse injured workers in connection with a workers’ compensation claim. Stat. . §§ 26-2B-1 to 26-2B-7, et seq.), Four have ruled that it cannot.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 4, 2024

The apparent rise in mental disability claims is a significant issue for disability insurers and workers’ compensation systems. The observed rise in workers’ compensation claims for mental injury must be interpreted in context. Handwringing over costs often misses this underlying premise.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many students I encounter assume that workers’ compensation is simply another variant of traditional insurance. The Public Policy Objective Most developed economies have systems of social protection that offer cash benefits in case of work-related injuries. A brief history of workers' compensation. Iowa Orthop J.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

The apparent rise in mental injuries First responders are not the only workers at risk of mental or psychological injuries. Many workers’ compensation jurisdictions and work-disability insurers have noted increasing mental disorder (also called psychological injury, mental injury) claims over time.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

Work-related injury not only physical and mental pain, but any resulting disability also raises immediate questions Injured workers and family members often turn to their human resource (HR) and disability management (DM) professionals to provide guidance on workers’ compensation issues. California) to seven days (e.g.,

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 27, 2023

Whether you work as a Case Manager for workers’ compensation system, a client services representative for a transport-accident personal-injury insurance, a claims administrator for a non-occupational disability insurance plan, or a return-to-work specialist for a third-party administrator, you will face the disability insurance “trust gap”.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 8, 2023

While state benefit systems such as workers’ compensation have made an admirable attempt in many jurisdictions to provide benefits, a significant gap and non-uniform delivery of benefits continue to exist among jurisdictions. The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic persists.

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