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  • State: Iowa
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Iowa this week became the sixth state to put its stamp of approval on the burgeoning gig economy, classifying more workers as independent contractors. The

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  • State: California
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Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations since 2011, has retired.

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André Schoorl, undersecretary of the state’s

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  • State: Maryland
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State correctional officers would soon be classified as public safety employees, which would essentially double their permanent partial disability benefits, under legislation that passed the

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Two Wisconsin-based companies have teamed up to launch a bundled-payment program for workers’ compensation, even as some are questioning the feasibility of value-based care in work

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  • State: California
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Federal prosecutors are again asking for more time to determine whether conspirators in the Pacific Hospital of Long Beach spinal surgery kickback scheme can be

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  • State: Kentucky
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Coal miners and other workers are now more likely to file hearing-loss claims after a Kentucky court struck down part of the state's workers' compensation

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  • State: California
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California’s top law enforcement official says the Department of Industrial Relations is in full compliance with the lien stay injunction handed down in December, and

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Concern about a shortage of clinicians to provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence is creeping into workers’ comp, as payers are becoming more willing to

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  • State: New Jersey
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether wage-replacement benefits should go to someone who had no wages.

A ruling for the plaintiff

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  • State: California
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More than 28,000 permanently disabled workers in California received a $5,000 check from the Return-to-Work Supplement Program created by Senate Bill 863, but that represents

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