The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund would be required to serve as the third-party administrator for Maryland’s self-insured workers’ compensation program for state employees, under a
… Read more »The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission would be allowed to create an ombudsman program to assist unrepresented injured workers, under a bill heading to the desk
… Read more »The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a police officer suffering from heart disease, finding his claim was timely and that
… Read more »The Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the Industrial Accident Board wrongly denied a worker’s petition for permanent impairment benefits based on his earlier request for
… Read more »The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a hotel operator was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing an employee's claim for an alleged sexual assault in the
… Read more »After two years of battling in the legislature and the courts over his appointments to the workers' compensation bench, Gov. Roy Cooper has nominated an
… Read more »The Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission now posts monthly claim information on its website, in a searchable spreadsheet format.
The data shows the number of claims,
… Read more »A bill that would add an appeals court level and reconfigure the workers' compensation adjudication system passed a key House committee last week after a
… Read more »The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a worker was entitled to receive permanent total disability benefits from the Multiple Injury Trust Fund when
… Read more »The Louisiana Supreme Court reinstated a statutory penalty against a municipal employer for failing to timely pay an award of compensation to an injured worker.
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