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The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that independent contractors are not afforded immunity from tort liability under the workers’ compensation law as statutory employers, unlike contractors and subcontractors.
Mitchell Smith worked for Amalgamated Sugar Co. In 2017, Amalgamated hired Excel Fabrication LLC to build a series of steel mezzanines and handrails at its facility.
While the project was still ongoing, one of the handrails fabricated by Excel… Read more »
The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a jury’s award of damages against a general contractor in a subrogation action by an insurance carrier to recover what it had paid in benefits to an injured worker.
Case: Acuity v. Kraus-Anderson Construction Co., No. A23-0318, 09/18/2023, unpublished.
Facts: Winona State University hired Kraus-Anderson Construction Co. as a general contractor for a building and renovation project on its campus. The university also hired Borton Construction Inc. to build a… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 5% permanent… Read more »
The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker failed to prove his entitlement to a higher permanent… Read more »
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined a pipe manufacturer $245,546 for violations uncovered during the investigation of a March 2023 workplace death.
A 19-year-old employee of Foley Products Co. was using a hammer and chisel to remove hardened concrete from a mixer at a manufacturing facility in Cantonment, Florida. He was killed when the concrete mixer was restarted while he was still… Read more »
Origami Risk on Wednesday announced the appointment of Chris Bennett as chief strategy officer of core solutions.
At the same time, the insurance software as a service firm announced that Mike Kaplan is joining the company as president of the core solutions division.
Bennett served as president of the core solutions division when it was created in 2019. His appointment to chief strategy… Read more »The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending that Colorado regulators reduce advisory loss costs for the voluntary market by 3.4%, effective Jan. 1.
“The proposed change in average voluntary loss costs consists of a 4.3% decrease due to experience and development, no change due to trend, a 0.4% increase due to benefits and a 0.5% increase… Read more »
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that medical fee schedule conversion factors are increasing Oct. 1.
The department adopted rules that would increase by an average of about 0.5% the factors used to determine the maximum fee owed for health care services.
Fees for medical services in Minnesota are… Read more »
The Kentucky Division of Occupational Safety and Health is holding a free, four-day training event in October.
The event will include sessions exploring effective safety and health management programs and how they can reduce the number and severity of workplace injuries, and injury and illness recordkeeping requirements… Read more »
As a child, and even today, I love to read historical reminders. I used to read them in newspapers or magazines growing up, but now they abound in articles on the web and on social media.
On this day in history (Sept. 20):
In 1946, the first Cannes Film Festival was held.
In 1973, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes.
In… Read more »
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