The Massachusetts Appeals Court reversed a Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board decision holding that a reinsurer was not entitled to reimbursement from the Workers'
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Independent bill review awarded additional payment on 94% of the nearly 6,000 disputes resolved on the merits in 2023 and 2024, finding that only about
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An Ohio appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for an employer on a worker’s claim for benefits for an aggravation of his preexisting
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A federal appellate court in an unpublished decision upheld a grant of summary judgment dismissing a Colorado volunteer firefighter’s bad faith actions against the administrators
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The Division of Workers' Compensation proposed a maximum hourly rate of $500 for attorneys to prepare injured workers for a deposition and to represent them
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A divided Oregon Supreme Court held that workers' compensation benefits do not provide a constitutionally sufficient substitute remedy for purposes of a law that immunizes
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The California Supreme Court granted a petition to review an appellate court decision holding that utilization review and independent medical review must be used to
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An Arizona appeals court cited a decision that the California Supreme Court handed down during World War I in finding that a person working at
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A California appellate court, in a published decision, ruled that a freight broker owed no duty of care to the driver of a contractor carrier
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The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a determination that an injured worker was a regular employee of an employer that failed to provide workers’ compensation
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