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The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of additional treatment and temporary total disability benefits to a fast food cook for his injuries from assisting a customer who had fallen at his restaurant.
Jimmy Key III worked as a cook for McDonald’s. While he was at work in November 2019, a customer fell in the restaurant. Key was directed to help the customer up, and as he lifted the person, he allegedly felt a popping sensation in his… Read more »
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of a pain management referral and expansion of a worker’s claim.
Case: Beavers v. McDowell County Board of Education, No. 21-1005, 09/14/2023, published.
Facts: Pamela H. Beavers worked as a secretary for the McDowell County Board of Education. She filed a report of injury stating she had hurt herself in a fall in the parking lot of the high school at which she worked.
Physician assistant Kelly Belt signed the report of injury, stating Beavers… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of permanent total disability benefits for a longtime coal industry… Read more »
A New York appellate court ruled that an… Read more »
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- WV Worker Can't Get Pain Management Referral, Expansion of Claim
- WV High Court Denies Longtime Mine Worker's Application for PTD Benefits
- OK Trench Collapse Death Investigation Yields $82,149 in Fines
- TX DWC Seeks Stakeholder Input on Quarterly Meetings
- TX DWC Publishes Latest Edition of Safety Newsletter
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute on Monday published a new study finding that paid losses on lost-time claims fell immediately after the reforms of SB 863 took effect at the start of 2013, then gradually increased until the pandemic hit.
The result is that average paid losses on claims at all valuation points within 60 months of injury are higher than their post-reform lows, CWCI said. Only… Read more »
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined an Oklahoma contractor $82,149 following an investigation into the trench collapse that killed a project manager at a work site.
OSHA said the project manager and workers employed by Rocking L Dozer and Land Management LLC were placing gravel around a sewer line in McAlester in May when the trench collapsed.
The… Read more »The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that benefits will be increasing 3.89%, effective Oct. 1, because of an increase in the state’s average weekly wage.
The average wage in Minnesota climbed to $1,337 from $1,287, the department said in the September edition of its Compact newsletter.
Maximum benefits, which are equal to 102% of the… Read more »
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is seeking input on ways to improve stakeholder meetings it holds with insurance carriers and health care providers.
The division holds quarterly meetings with insurers and doctors to provide updates on routine information and to highlight… Read more »
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation published the latest edition of its newsletter aimed at promoting workplace safety.
The new edition of the agency’s “Safety@Work” newsletter includes an article on protecting workers from crystalline silica hazards.
DWC reported that… Read more »
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