Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The effects of a government shutdown on state workers' compensation systems and their integration with Social Security will vary depending on the specific circumstances of each state. Workers' compensation insurance Premiums paid by employers fund workers' compensation systems.

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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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Workers' Compensation

JULY 10, 2024

An active hurricane season can significantly impact the workers' compensation system in terms of claims and losses. A shortage of medical providers in affected areas might impact treatment and return-to-work timelines. The probability of major hurricane landfalls along the U.S. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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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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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

More than nine years later, on November 17, 2017, Henretty suffered a work injury in Montana when she fractured her right ankle after slipping on ice in the employer’s parking lot. Comment As we note in Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 143.01, et seq. Second, when, if ever, are in-state injuries excluded?

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 25, 2024

In those rulings, the Commission and the Court of Appeals had found that the costs of a claimant’s bariatric surgery should be borne by the employer because the claimant needed to lose weight to undergo surgery to repair hardware in her knee that had loosened due to two work-related injuries. 124, 468 S.E.2d

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The Workcomp Writer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Personal Observation In 1977, I stood before the North Carolina Industrial Commission as a young workers’ compensation defense attorney, barely a year into practice, challenging a deputy commissioner’s credibility determination. 6, 2024), illustrates how this tension continues to shape workers’ compensation practice.

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

Verrelli Workers' compensation is a system of insurance that provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees who are injured in the course of their employment. The system is designed to ensure that injured workers receive prompt and fair compensation, regardless of who is at fault for the injury.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 4, 2022

See Who is the Employer? The bill is of interest in the workers' compensation community because we have a fair number of opportunities to examine the "employer/employee relationship" in the context of various statutory sections. The application of workers' compensation in Florida is dependent upon that employment relationship.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The 1948 adoption of the Mississippi Workers' Compensation Law (marking the unanimity of this concept in the nation). The 1958 publication of an American Medical Association (AMA) article : "A Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment of the Extremities and Back." The implementation of Social Security Disability Insurance (1956).

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 17, 2024

The bill amends current workers’ compensation law to add that a response to an emergency, including work sufficient to cause certain injuries or death, is compensable. In addition, paid, part-paid, or volunteer firefighters and police officers and members of a volunteer first aid or rescue squad are eligible for compensation.

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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. 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.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Heartiest congratulations to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as it celebrates 100 years of service to the workers’ compensation system. Our” system has seen substantial changes over the years and NCCI has deftly adapted along with it. You likely know the important backdrop of the White decision.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Workplaces are now primed for a massive wave of compensation claims due to the Omicron variant. A recent study provides a potential opportunity for employers and insurance companies to reduce their risk exposure through early sequencing and treatment proactively.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 17, 2022

Employers whose annual premiums exceed $9,200 in annual premiums need to start paying closer attention to their workers’ compensation policies and safety practices. Under California’s workers’ compensation system rules, starting Sept. In other words, if your policy incepted Jan.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 23, 2022

The world of workers' compensation is geographic and diverse. There is no workers' compensation "system," but at least 60 systems across the country. That congregation discusses the hot topics of workers' compensation before an audience at the WCI Workers' Compensation Educational Conference.

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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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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. Following an independent medical examination (IME) and hearings, a WCLJ established the claim, finding that claimant had met his burden of establishing that he had contracted COVID-19 through his employment.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

The panel at the United States Department of Labor was focused specifically on half of the Grand Bargain, asking " Is the Workers’ Compensation System Serving Injured Workers? ” Law professor Emily Spieler , Northwestern University School of Law was included, as was workers compensation attorney Alan Pierce. Sighinolfi).

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Comparative studies provide stakeholders with context in assessing system performance and policy makers with objective data for decision making. Unfortunately, comparative studies of workers’ compensation system features and outcomes are rare. Medical costs also vary widely. Every study has limitations.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new rule is expected to have a significant impact on employers. Despite the long legacy of severe and fatal claims, including lung cancer and mesothelioma, brought within the workers’ compensation system, the substance is still being used in products, and exposure continues from asbestos already in place in occupational settings.

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Genesis HR Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

Learn everything you ever need to know about Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) in this free guide. What is workers’ compensation? Workers’ compensation systems were established to provide partial medical care and income protection to employees who are injured or become ill as a result of doing their job.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Wearing an employer-designated work uniform shouldn’t result in severe and debilitating occupational exposures. Unfortunately, some American Airlines flight attendants suffered injuries from wearing the flight uniforms prescribed by their employer. Get medical attention if you experience appreciable eye or respiratory irritation.”

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The Workcomp Writer

MAY 24, 2022

Following independent medical examinations and the depositions of various providers, the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier raised the issue of a N.Y. Claimant further testified that he did not think that he needed to mention the prior injuries or awards because they were already in the workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 24, 2023

The settlement terms are enumerated on a prescribed form and signed by the employee, employer, and judge of compensation after the employee has been fully advised of all rights. University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Inc. An attorney-at-law must represent the settling petitioner. Christodoulou , 180 N.J.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

ALLEGED MEDICAL ISSUES Controversy continues over human medical issues associated with non-ionizing radio frequency exposure. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY Some state workers’ compensation acts, including New Jersey, recognize radiation exposure as an occupational disease and afford injured workers and their dependents a remedy.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nelson, of Belleville, IL There is significant geographic and practical breadth here with these speakers coming from very different workers' compensation systems and hopefully I will add a national perspective. Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Now a federal program seeks to limit addiction by controlling how much medication injured federal government employees are allowed to receive. Department of Labor is responsible for managing the federal workforce’s workers’ compensation system through its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 8, 2023

There was a dispute regarding medical benefits, which is also not unusual at all in this system. The Court noted that the failures had resulted in delay for the injured worker and employer to have their day in hearing with the JCC. Without naming the case, some history is perhaps in order. A petition was filed seeking benefits.

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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. WalMart was just a decade old in 1972, with 51 stores.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

With the challenges emerging, the public steps announced in some jurisdictions may provide insight into what lies ahead for those who work in and with workers’ compensation. For workers’ compensation insurers, there are additional complications in their day-to-day operations. Should work be assigned on the basis of immunity?

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2020

The presence of disease and the history of exposure in the occupation or industry defined typically establishes a presumptive (although rebuttable) work-related cause, opening the door to workers’ compensation claims for medical costs, rehabilitation, financial compensation, survivor benefits, and death benefits.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

territories 2 allow, at least in some instances, the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Eleven states allow for the use of low THC, high CBD products for medical reasons. Jurisdictions Requiring Reimbursement for Medical Marijuana. Four have ruled such reimbursement can be ordered. Four have ruled that it cannot.

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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. Medical delivery in most industrialized countries operates under a single-payer or unified system. Work has changed dramatically to remote and non-industrial in many instances.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Workers’ compensation is designed to provide income replacement and coverage of medical expenses for employees who are injured on the job. If the injury is related to the employment, it does not matter who caused the injury; the employee is awarded benefits. How do workers’ compensation laws work?

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The Workcomp Writer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The court reviewed the state’s so-called Seagroves test, which holds that, under appropriate circumstances, an employee’s termination for misconduct may constitute a constructive refusal of suitable employment on the part of the former employee, such that he or she is also disqualified from receiving temporary total disability benefits.

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