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By Steve Nichols, News Contributor
The Texas Legislature sent the governor a bill before adjourning the 2023 session to implement a Division of Workers’ Compensation recommendation to exempt designated doctor exams from state sales taxes.
Another bill that would have implemented a DWC recommendation to exempt from public records requests working papers and electronic communications of workers’ compensation… Read more »
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of authorization for a worker’s request for pain treatment with platelet-rich plasma injections.
Case: Owens v. Penn Tech Machinery Corp. (WCAB), No. 1288 C.D. 2021, 05/30/2023, unpublished.
Facts and procedural history: Glen Owens worked for Penn Tech Machinery Corp. He injured his back at work in May 2014 and filed a workers’ compensation claim.
Penn Tech settled Owens’ claim for wage loss benefits and agreed to… Read more »The Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled that an injured construction worker could not… Read more »
The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits for a police officer with post-traumatic stress disorder… Read more »
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The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s claim of additional injuries from a workplace injury to her lower back.
Case: Vandom v. State ex rel. Department of Workforce Services, No. S-22-0283, 05/20/2023, published.
Facts: Courtney Vandom worked as a laboratory technician. On Sept. 4, 2020, she twisted her back while moving… Read more »
A woman who worked as a bookkeeper and personal care aide while receiving workers’ compensation benefits was ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution, the New York State Inspector General’s Office announced.
Joanne Florek, 55, pleaded guilty to petit larceny in January and received a “conditional discharge” on May 23. A conditional discharge is a sentence that doesn’t include incarceration or supervised… Read more »Hospital outpatient payments are lower and growing more slowly in states with fixed-amount workers’ compensation fee schedules, according to a new study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute.
Researchers compared hospital payments for a group of… Read more »
Goldberg Segalla added Alissa M. Cheremont to the firm’s workers’ compensation group in Orlando.
Cheremont maintains a focus on workers’ compensation matters, serving employers, insurers and third-party administrators.
Cheremont draws on her background as an assistant state attorney in Florida’s 9th… Read more »
Safety National announced that Dennis Zervos is retiring from his position as regional vice president of underwriting, effective Friday.
Zervos joined Safety National in 2009 when the company opened an office in New York.
In addition to maintaining relationships with brokers and risk managers, Zervos managed a unit of field casualty and… Read more »
When defending against an applicant with a prior award under an older permanent disability rating schedule, practitioners should take a few extra steps to ensure that they get Benson apportionment to the prior award.
Although Senate Bill 899’s implementation of the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule (PDRS) took effect almost 20 years ago, there are still cases that pop up where applicants have prior awards under the 1997… Read more »
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