Workers' Compensation

JUNE 17, 2024

Benefit amount is reduced by some Social Security benefits and employer disability pensions. Bill does not affect existing offsets between workers' compensation and Social Security disability benefits. Funded from the General Fund, not the Second Injury Fund (SIF) like pre-1980 cases.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.” OSC examined the files of ten claimants who collectively filed 300 claims during the course of their state employment.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 15, 2022

The report has been criticized as coming from the perspective perhaps of too many academics, only large employers (2), lawyers (45% of Commissioners), and the usual higher learning institutions. Some have criticized that no service sector or professional employers were involved. Commission Report, Chapter 1.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

The Court acknowledged that under the state’s statutory scheme it was difficult, although not impossible, to establish a causal connection between the employment and the virus. Judge Great noted that there had only been three reported decisions addressing the compensability of COVID-19, and that the holdings were mixed: Fowler v.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 15, 2022

A major disrupters in the workers’ compensation system is hurricanes. Workers’ compensation benefits are available to injured workers due to the consequences of hurricanes, including injuries from flooding and wind. Now is the time to prepare for such events. The 2022 Season is still predicted to be an abnormally high season.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 3, 2022

An asbestos manufacturer or supplier that places inadequate warnings on asbestos bags used in the workplace has a duty to warn the worker, regardless of whether it provides the employer with the correct information, which is reasonably intended to reach its employees. 34:15-7 to -35.22.” Adequate warnings provide workers with a choice.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As this holiday season approaches, employers, insurance companies, and employees will be facing what may be the biggest COVID challenges of the year. Source: Eric Topal MD, Director Scripps Research 12/10/2021 Stakeholders Need to Act Now Stakeholders should act proactively in preventing widespread infections in the workplace.

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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. The appellate court disagreed with the employer’s premise. 3d 924 (N.M.

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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. WorkSafeBC is the exclusive insurer for workers’ compensation in British Columbia, Canada.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

Extracting provincial data from the same series, British Columbia has seen a massive shift in the employment of workers age 65 and older: The monthly unadjusted BC employment rate of 65- to 69-year-olds now routinely exceeds 35% More than a third of males (36.2% in 2001 to 15% in 2021) in the last two decades. in (Q1 2002).

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

In the accompanying slides and in some responses, I provide additional references as a starting point for understanding and comparing initial workers’ compensation. All workers’ compensation systems pay the same rate for lost wages…right? Is there a minimum compensation amount for TTD? California) to seven days (e.g.,

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 12, 2024

97-2 (19) (2021) (defining “medical compensation”). The appellate court disagreed, indicating the language cited by Plaintiff was the Act’s definition of the purpose of medical compensation—which was just one purpose of the Act. Within the workers’ compensation context, the issues are more complex and nuanced.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Exclusive Remedy Workers’ compensation is considered a form of “social insurance” and operates based on a social contract between management and labor. It stipulates that workers’ compensation serves as the “exclusive remedy” for occupational injuries and diseases. of total employment and 87.3%

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

Where short and long term disability (STD and LTD) insurance or social security disability insurance plans (SSDI in the US) are available, they are often accessed before (or instead of) filing a workers’ compensation claim. So, these data may not fully represent what is happening in either country’s workers’ compensation system.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There is both evolution and revolution in the world of workers' compensation: regulatorily, statutorily, adjudicatory, and more. The interrelationship of employment, which is the very fabric of workers' compensation, has changed. He encouraged and inspired conversation about this community, injured workers, and employers.

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