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The team at WorkCompCentral is stunned and deeply saddened by David DePaolo's sudden departure from this world. He passed away Sunday, July 17 in a motorcycle accident. However, we are all committed to carry on and continue to fulfill David's vision of providing workers compensation professionals with the most unbiased news, education and resources in the industry. We will also strive to make this year's Comp Laude® Awards & Gala event the best ever. The Comp Laude® event encapsulates his vision and passion for the industry. David was very proud of the team that he had assembled and we are working very hard to support each other and our valued customers.
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Kids Chance of California or Angel Flight West.
David J. DePaolo
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Top Story: Friday, May 26, 2017
Not only are Illinois lawmakers not willing to lower workers’ compensation costs, but Democrats are pushing measures that would place price controls on premiums and put the state in the insurance business, reform advocates said Thursday.
“Illinois is a catastrophic debacle right now,” said Steve Schneider, Midwest region vice president for the American Insurance Association. “In the last five days, legislators passed a retroactive massive… Read more »
The Mississippi Court of Appeals this week ruled that an employer can’t duck out of its agreement to pay a $71,659.43 settlement for a comp case just because the worker died before the Workers’ Compensation Commission approved of the deal.
Under the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Law, the commission may disapprove of a settlement agreement only if it finds the agreement would not be in… Read more »Surveillance video helped convict a South Florida employee who smacked herself… Read more »
The Beachwood fire captain who inspired the governor into signing a cancer presumption law died Wednesday… Read more »
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- FL Contractors Suspected of Failure to Secure Comp Coverage, License
- WV Legislature Agrees to Extend Premium Subsidy Fund Until 2020
- TN AWW for Worker With Intermittent Schedule Was Properly Based on Number of Weeks Worked
- LA Self-Insurers Fund Had No Obligation to Defend Worker From Personal Injury Action
A Bay Area doctor has been sentenced to four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter and running a pill mill out of her Los Gatos pain management clinic, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday.
Jasna Mrdjen's involuntary manslaughter charge stemmed from the overdose death of… Read more »
The Louisiana Court of Appeals ruled that the Louisiana Restaurant Association Self-Insurers Fund did not have an obligation to indemnify or defend a member’s employee from a personal injury action arising out of a workplace fight.
Case: Akers v. The Columns Hotel, No.… Read more »A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker could proceed with his claims for violation of the Labor Law and negligence against a residential homeowner who allegedly failed to protect the worker from falling from a balcony.
Case: Wadlowski v. Cohen, No.… Read more »
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office arrested three people on suspicion of failing to secure workers' compensation coverage and contracting without a license, during an undercover sting operation this month, the Tampa Bay Times reported Thursday.
The sting took place May 10-11 at a single-family… Read more »
The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that an injured millwright’s average weekly wage was properly calculated by using his earnings, divided by the number of weeks he actually worked for his employer.
Case: Dunn v. Tradesmen… Read more »
This will be hard.
For a moment, squeeze yourself into the tight shoes of one of America’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants.
Eight million of you are working. You make up 5% of the civilian workforce. Twenty-six percent of you work in farming; 15% in construction. A lot of people complain that you and your unauthorized, undocumented, illegal alien… Read more »
CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has hired Scott Shader as the company’s chief operating officer.
Shader has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience. Before joining CopperPoint, he was executive vice president at Endurance Express, a commercial lines carrier. Before that, he was executive vice president at Axis Capital.
Shader also worked for four years at Hanover Insurance, where he was president of small commercial, and for two years at Travelers Insurance.
Shader… Read more »The Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court has updated the fee schedules for inpatient hospital… Read more »
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has released a series of videos spotlighting… Read more »
The West Virginia Legislature agreed this week to continue maintaining a workers' compensation premium subsidy fund for volunteer fire departments until 2020.
The fund was created to help volunteer fire departments defray their workers' compensation premium costs. Excess money collected by the Insurance Commissioner for the Fire Protection Fund is deposited into the premium subsidy fund each year. The fund also received a single payment of $4… Read more »The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division has revised its cost-of-living matrix and lowered… Read more »
The maximum attorney fee award in Oregon will remain the same next year because there has not been an increase in the state average weekly… Read more »
The California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed a pair of fraud-fighting bills that would create a new unit within the Division of Workers’ Compensation and close a loophole that allows providers convicted of fraud to try to collect on liens before they’re suspended from participating in the state’s comp program.
The committee on Wednesday unanimously passed AB 1697, a bill by the Assembly Insurance Committee that would require the Division of Workers’… Read more »The Division of Workers’ Compensation has recognized two East Texas companies for exemplary workplace safety programs, and… Read more »
One Call Care Management has launched a service that will allow the company to… Read more »
Liberty Mutual has named 15-year company veteran Jessica Dekermanji head of its unit geared toward insuring the energy industry, the company announced Wednesday.
Dekermanji will serve as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of Liberty… Read more »
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