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The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a case asking whether Congress unconstitutionally delegated unlimited authority to the executive branch with the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970.
Ohio-based furnace manufacturer Allstates Refractory Contractors says the Occupational Safety and Health Act offered no guidance on what would constitute reasonably necessary or appropriate… Read more »
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fee Review Hearing Office does not have the statutory authority to order reimbursement for overpayment of medical services.
Case: Philadelphia Surgery Center v. Excalibur Insurance Management Services LLC, No. 420 C.D. 2022, 01/27/2023, published.
Facts: Leah Beckley worked for Luzerne County. She suffered an on-the-job injury in June 2020 and received medical treatment from Philadelphia… Read more »A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that further proceedings are necessary to determine if a… Read more »
The District of Columbia’s highest court vacated an administrative order terminating an injured worker’s benefits… Read more »
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Journey-level plumbers who underwent apprenticeship training had fewer industrial injuries and workers’ compensation claims than their colleagues with no apprenticeship training, according to a study out of Washington state.
Researchers with the state’s Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention Program also said apprentice graduates experienced a greater decline… Read more »
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is hosting a webinar March 1 that will profile California’s health care industry.
The webinar will provide insights into the dynamics of one of the largest industries in the state with more than 48,000 work comp policies. The WCIRB will discuss operational characteristics, work comp claim cost patterns and key cost drivers for the sector.
WCIRB Executive Vice… Read more »The Nevada Workers’ Compensation Section said the deadline to file requests for reimbursement of cost-of-living adjustment payments made in calendar year 2022 is March 31.
State lawmakers in 2019 revised rules for permanent total disability and death benefit claims to require that carriers pay an annual 2.3% cost-of-living increase.… Read more »
The Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation would be able to assess employers and insurers a special surcharge to support the state’s Second Injury Fund through 2028, under recently introduced legislation.
Rep. Terry Thompson, R-Lexington, on Wednesday introduced HB 1017, which would amend a provision sunsetting the SIF surcharge… Read more »
ODG by MCG announced the release of updated datasets within its return-to-work guidelines that it said would support prospective case management and retrospective benchmarking for time away from work.
The update includes revisions to the U.S. return-to-work duration values as well as new duration values for Canada across the… Read more »
Welcome back to our series on last year’s workers’ compensation appellate opinions.
Notice
I noticed this was an issue in a handful of opinions (See what I did there? I know; my comic genius is being wasted as a staff attorney. But it’s hard to make a blog post about opinion after opinion interesting.)
In Scruggs v. Amazon.com, the employee conceded she… Read more »
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