Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Implications for the Industry: The NCCI's study highlights the substantial financial impact of mega claims on the workers' compensation system. The High Cost of Injury, www.gelmans.com (12/13/2024) [link]. For more detailed information and analysis, please refer to the full NCCI report. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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The Workcomp Writer

JULY 26, 2024

State of California , S279622, 2024 Cal. LEXIS XXX (July 25, 2024)]. This constitutional provision gives the Legislature “plenary power, unlimited by any provision of this Constitution” to create a workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 17, 2024

Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia filed the legislation to institute additional workers' compensation supplemental benefits on June 13, 2024, and Assemblyman Inganamort co-sponsored it. Bill Proposes to Increase Benefits for Some Injured Workers and Dependents, www.gelmans.com (06/15/2024). Click here to read legislation A4559.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 17, 2024

If they suffer health emergencies of their own due to the dangers of their jobs, the responders and their families deserve the compensation they have earned. This law will bring more fairness to the workers compensation system.” First Responders’ Workers Compensation Bill Enacted, www.gelmans.com (01/17/2024), [link].

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Workers' Compensation Institute described the award: it "was created “to recognize those who had performed outstanding and selfless service in advancing the philosophy and practice of the workers’ compensation system.” In 2024, I am going to figure out who won that award. WCI Newsletter (May 2012).

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 18, 2024

Alco Harvesting, LLC , 2024 Cal. LEXIS 380 (June 17, 2024)]. The case now returns to the trial court, where the widow will have the opportunity to prove her allegations and potentially hold the employer accountable outside the workers’ compensation system for its alleged role in her husband’s death.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 5, 2022

The workers’ compensation system has been plagued by an epidemic of industrial illness, including asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, flowing from exposure to asbestos fiber in the workplace.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 25, 2024

Noah’s Playloft Preschool , 2024 N.C. 22, 2024)]. Additional Causal Test: Treatment Must Be Directly Related to Original Injury Yet, here too, stressed the majority, North Carolina’s appellate courts had imposed an additional causal requirement to safeguard the purpose of the workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

see Phil Melnychuk, “Online program gives firefighters some advance notice about the trauma and tragedy they’ll face”, Delta Optimist, March 20, 2024] That’s the way Captain Ben Lewis recently described the nature of a firefighter’s job. So, these data may not fully represent what is happening in either country’s workers’ compensation system.

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Empuls

JUNE 21, 2024

Lastly, the future benefit payments expected to be paid in the next 5 years include 726 million, 27 million in 2024, 694 million, 26 million in 2025, and 2,320 million, 98 million within 2026-2030, as retirement benefits and post-retirement costs respectively. This is applicable up to a maximum salary of $275,000 in 2024. 

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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.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 24, 2024

For some, the change in job status can affect health insurance and workers’ compensation benefits, which can further treatment options. held a Hearing on Thursday, January 18, 2024, titled “Addressing Long COVID: Advancing Research and Improving Patient Care.” “The Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Long COVID , www.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 12, 2024

As we note in Larson, the excessive and indiscriminate use of the lump-summing device has reached a point in some jurisdictions that it threatens to undermine the real purpose of the workers’ compensation system. Within the workers’ compensation context, the issues are more complex and nuanced. Instruction/ Buncombe Cnty.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Attorneys can help workers navigate the complex workers' compensation system and ensure they receive all their entitlements. This study suggests employers can reduce workers' compensation costs by advising injured workers to seek legal representation. What does this mean for employers? ORDER NOW. * All rights reserved.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 23, 2025

The case began its journey through the states workers compensation system: first to Deputy Commissioner Stephenson, who, after a hearing on September 10, 1975, found the claim compensable and awarded benefits. When is a common disease sufficiently connected to work to warrant compensation? Wellwood Cemetery Assoc.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

127,123, 2024 Kan. 18, 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. Healthcenter Nw., LEXIS 31 (Kan.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 8, 2025

The court emphasized that the legislature did not intend to create a new avenue for employment-related lawsuits beyond the existing workers' compensation system. Workers' Compensation Remains Applicable: The court reaffirmed the applicability of the workers' compensation exclusivity rule.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 24, 2025

Related Articles: When Skeptics Lead: The Next Pandemic Challenge 11/28/2024 Is Medicare-For-All a Prescription for Infectious Diseases in the Workplace? 6/19/2022 Investing for the Next Pandemic 9/21/2021 Is the workers' compensation system ready for the COVID-19 [coronavirus] virus?

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The Workcomp Writer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

2001), that the state’s commission need not defer even on credibility issues—that early encounter illustrated a fundamental tension in workers’ compensation practice: Should administrative boards and commissions truly retry cases de novo, or should they give deference to the hearing officers who actually observe the witnesses?

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 10, 2025

At a recent personal injury/disability management conference, a panel moderator told delegates, The topics on our agenda today are strikingly similar to those on the conference agenda from a decade ago (Rebecca Harris, GM Regulatory Services WorkCover WA at PIEF Conference, Perth: October 2024 [paraphrased]).

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

9/28/2024 Bird Flu Strikes Colorado Poultry Workers: CDC Confirms 7/28/2024 Is the workers' compensation system ready for the COVID-19 [coronavirus] virus? NY Times 11/27/2024 White House Launches Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy The White House 7/21/2023 Recommended Citation : Gelman, Jon L.,

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Workers' Compensation

MARCH 19, 2025

This will financially impact state workers' compensation systems, which now have the economic benefit of a Social Security reverse offset. In summary, the changes implemented by DOGE are expected to strain the SSA's resources, resulting in a less efficient and more time-consuming process for Social Security Disability claims.

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