With questions mounting nationwide over the compensability of coronavirus illness, a national claimants' advocacy organization is calling on insurers to relax their opposition to most
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A Southern California law firm representing more than 100 qualified medical evaluators has asked the Department of Industrial Relations to adopt an emergency policy change
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Governing bodies in nearly all 50 states have either closed or significantly scaled back their resources in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, leaving the
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The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association wants to sue the federal government after two immigrant workers were arrested at a Northern California courthouse in February, according
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The California Division of Workers’ Compensation and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board announced that courts will be shutting down for all functions except expedited hearings,
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Just days after a few workers' compensation courts and commissions suggested that it would be business as usual during the coronavirus outbreak, some have reversed
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A Colorado bill that would allow emergency dispatchers and other employees to file claims of post-traumatic stress disorder for overhearing traumatic events is one step
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The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a trial judge should have granted a tort defendant's motion to designate a responsible third party in a construction worker’s
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California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation on Thursday announced that its annual Educational Conference planned for later this month in Los Angeles will be postponed after
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As the World Health Organization officially designated COVID-19 a pandemic and urged people to initiate “social distancing” and avoid crowds, it’s business as usual for
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