
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld two utilization review determinations that a truck driver’s opioid medication usage was excessive, and it denied his petition for
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The Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld a decision of the state retirement system to offset the workers' compensation benefits paid to a worker against her
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Rand Corp. said it is unable to provide recommendations about whether COVID-19 presumptions and other provisions in SB 1159 were the optimal response to the
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A longstanding practice of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board to issue so-called “grant and study” orders in response to petitions for reconsideration deprives injured workers
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Injured workers' access to medical care for their initial treatment was consistent between 2010 and 2020, but average and median wait times for the first
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An Orange County jury acquitted a sleep doctor on the lone remaining charge from a case spanning more than a decade in which he was accused
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While the majority of workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic involved a mild infection and no hospitalization, the Workers’
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the Industrial Commission applied the wrong legal standard in denying a worker’s traumatic brain injury claim, but it upheld
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The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a worker was entitled to benefits for his injuries from a car accident that occurred as he was traveling
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The Illinois Appellate last week court overturned a grant of summary judgment to an insurance carrier that had contested its duty to provide coverage to
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