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Thursday, March 16, 2023

TDI Adopts Changes to Basic Manual for Workers' Compensation

  • Source: Steve Nichols, Contributor
  • State: Texas
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Employer
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The Texas Department of Insurance adopted NCCI Item B-1446-“Revisions to NCCI's Basic Manual, Residual Market Manual, and Forms Manual.”

The amendments in Item B-1446 replace

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Michael Yaworsky Appointed Insurance Commissioner

  • State: Florida
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Insurance
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The Financial Services Commission appointed Michael Yaworsky as the insurance commissioner for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.

Commissioner
Michael Yaworsky

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Worker Doesn't Forfeit Entitlement to Benefits by Failing to Disclose 3rd-Party Settlements

  • State: Louisiana
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Vendor
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A Louisiana appellate court overturned a finding that an injured worker had forfeited her entitlement to benefits by settling her claims against motorists for car

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Monday, March 13, 2023

Bill to Cap Awards for Intentional Harm Heading to Governor

  • State: West Virginia
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Legal
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A bill that would cap awards when an employer deliberately intends to injure a worker is heading to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.

The

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Monday, March 13, 2023

Court Upholds Denial of Additional TTD Benefits, Termination of SEBs

  • State: Louisiana
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Legal
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A Louisiana appellate court upheld a determination that a worker was no longer entitled to temporary total disability benefits and that her right to supplemental

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Monday, March 13, 2023

Bills Would Discontinue Group Self-Insurance, Dissolve Guaranty Fund

  • State: Texas
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Insurance
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Texas lawmakers proposed a bill that would discontinue group self-insurance and dissolve the Texas Self-Insurance Group Guaranty Fund and Trust Fund.

Identical companion measures HB

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Friday, March 10, 2023

Worker Can't Assign Annuity Benefits Payable as Settlement of LHWCA Claim

  • State: Arkansas
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Insurance
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The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a worker could not transfer his structured settlement payments from an annuity to resolve his Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation

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Friday, March 10, 2023

Bill Would Create Infertility Presumption for First Responders

  • State: Texas
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Legal
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Lawmakers in Texas are considering a bill that would make infertility suffered by certain first responders a compensable condition under workers’ compensation.

SB 1878 would

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

Court Ignores City's Inadequate Briefing, Finds Partial Record Enough to Allow Review of Award

  • State: Tennessee
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Employer
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A divided Tennessee appellate court elected to ignore the deficiencies in a municipal employer’s briefing to address the merits of a dispute with a former

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Court Tosses Injured Worker's Retaliatory Termination Claim

  • State: Texas
  • Topic: SOUTH
  • - Popular with: Legal
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A Texas appellate court ruled that a trial judge should have granted an employer’s motion for summary judgment dismissing an injured worker’s retaliatory termination claim.

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