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Monday, October 21, 2024
- State: California
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The Workers Compensation Research Institute reports that average medical payments per claim in California were 10% below the median of a 17-state study.
California saw
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- State: Alabama
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Federal workplace safety officials fined an Alabama countertop installation company $29,035, saying it could have prevented a worker's death by following federal safety standards.
John
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- State: Texas
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A Texas appellate court dismissed an insurance carrier’s challenge to a trial judge’s finding of compensability for a worker’s death, ruling that the judgment entered
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- State: California
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The California Highway Patrol announced that a former captain was arrested on suspicion of workers' compensation insurance fraud and theft.
Matthew Stover, 51, was arrested
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- State: West Virginia
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West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker was not entitled to an increase in his permanent partial disability award for
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- State: New York
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A New York appellate court upheld a 45% schedule loss of use award for a worker’s knee injury.
Case: Matter of Wright v. Elmer W.
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- State: Georgia
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The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that an employer can face civil liability for the death of an employee who was shot at work by
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- State: California
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The California Department of Insurance announced that the owner of a private vocational school was charged with 11 felonies for allegedly submitting fraudulent bills to
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- State: Texas
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All but four of the 130 insurance carriers that the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation evaluated through its performance-based oversight assessment scored average or better.
… Read more »Friday, October 18, 2024
- National
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Frequency increases modestly but consistently as temperatures climb, according to a study by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.
NCCI said that starting around 50
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