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Top Story: Friday, April 26, 2019
The California Department of Human Resources will oversee hiring at the Department of Industrial Relations after the State Personnel Board stripped the agency of its delegated authority to administer a specified pre-employment exam and process civil service applications as a result of “numerous appointments and transactions of highly questionable… Read more »
Illinois Democrats, with a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature, wasted little time this year passing a bill that would allow workers to file civil suits for asbestos exposure after the statute of limitations to file a workers' compensation claim has elapsed.
But since the Senate passed SB 1596 on March 20, the bill has sat on the desk of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker. Some are beginning to… Read more »Despite medical treatment guidelines recommending against MRIs and other… Read more »
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the treatment parameters established under the… Read more »
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A New York appellate court ruled that a painter was not entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim due to a dispute over the circumstances of his fall from a ladder.
Case: Vasquez-Tineo v. 1764-1766 Westchester Ave. LLC, No. 9070 21993/14, 04/23/2019, published.
Facts and procedural history: Ramon Vasquez-Tineo fell from a… Read more »
A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for a fall while working on a scaffold, but he failed to allege a violation of any Industrial Code provision.
Case: Monfredo v. Arnell Construction Corp., No. 9064 304302/15, 04/23/2019, published.
Facts and procedural history: Vincent Monfredo allegedly suffered injuries in a fall while… Read more »The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled that substantial evidence supported a trial judge’s decision to assign an injured worker an impairment rating 15 times the rating she received from her doctor.
Case: Tuscaloosa County v. Beville, No. 2171022, 04/19/2019, published.
Facts: Chaka Beville worked as a correctional officer for Tuscaloosa… Read more »
The Utah Court of Appeals ruled that an injured worker failed to prove he had suffered a compensable injury from the fourth in a series of work accidents.
Case: Layton v. Labor Commission, No. 20180074-CA, 04/18/2019, published.
Facts: James Layton worked for the Winkel Distributing Co. as a beer delivery… Read more »
A Youngstown restaurant manager pleaded guilty this week to workers' compensation fraud after she was found to be working while collecting benefits, the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation announced.
Kristin Stuhldreher, 54, was injured in 2010, then needed further surgery in 2017. She received time off of work and wage benefits, then returned to… Read more »
Employers not having a rule for reporting work Injuries to the workers’ compensation carrier has caused many employers to end up paying very large claims on what should have been small ones.
The decision to write this article was made after I happened… Read more »
The Colorado legislature has approved a bill that raises the penalties for employers who don’t pay wages owed to workers.
House Bill 1267 was approved by the Senate on Wednesday on a 33-2 vote. The House passed the bill on April 10. Gov. Jared Polis is expected to sign the bill, Bloomberg Law reported.
Under the bill, a person who intentionally pays less than minimum wage would be committing theft, which would be considered a felony if the amount is more than $2,000. Wage theft is now a misdemeanor in the state,… Read more »The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission is launching a new version of its case docket website Monday.
As part of a… Read more »
A Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau committee, during a May 7 meeting in… Read more »
A bill that would make it easier to issue stop-worker orders and make it more costly for employers that shirk their workers' compensation responsibilities has passed the Illinois House and is now in a Senate committee.
House Bill 269, sponsored by Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, has been assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee. After passing the House by a vote of 104-10, it's expected to see quick action in the Senate, which also is controlled by Democrats.
The bill, after… Read more »Monoline workers’ comp carrier Employers Holdings has reported first quarter net income of $51.8 million, up from $25.6 million in the first quarter… Read more »
Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation Board will discuss during a meeting Tuesday in Salem the hiring of administrative law judges.
The only… Read more »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a recall of 50 microgram per hour fentanyl patches that were mislabeled as 12 microgram patches.
“Application of a 50 microgram per hour patch instead of a prescribed 12 microgram per hour patch could result in serious, life threatening or fatal respiratory depression,” the FDA said in a statement. “Groups at potential increased risk could include first-time recipients of such patches, children and… Read more »A pair of legislative committees passed bills that would prohibit using race and… Read more »
Pennsylvania employer interests are trying again this year to put long-tail occupational disease claims back in… Read more »
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