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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Gideon Baum succeeded Alex Swedlow to become the fifth president of the California Workers' Compensation Institute, effective Monday.
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- State: Alaska
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A federal appellate court upheld a defense judgment on an injured longshoreman’s maritime negligence claim.
Case: Nystrom v. Khana Marine Ltd., No. 24-2553, 08/28/2025, unpublished.
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- State: Nevada
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A Nevada court ruled that a firefighter’s failure to challenge both bases for the denial of an increase in his permanent partial disability award was
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The California Assembly voted to send the governor bills to expand death benefits provided to children of first responders and provide full-pay salary continuation benefits
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- State: Arizona
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An Arizona appeals court said the time frame an administrative law judge used to calculate preinjury monthly wages for a nurse who was injured after
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- State: Oregon
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The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was not entitled to a permanent partial disability award for a shoulder injury.
Case:
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A bill proposing to expand the presumption that heart trouble is a compensable condition was amended to specify that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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- State: Washington
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Officials in Washington state have pulled the plug on efforts to upgrade the workers' compensation medical claims management system, citing a lack of progress over
… Read more »Wednesday, August 27, 2025
- State: Oregon
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The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division is holding a hearing Sept. 18 to discuss the annual assessment that finances the Workers’ Benefit Fund.
The analysis to
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- State: California
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The California Senate passed an annual omnibus bill that includes a provision that permanently extends the authority of State Compensation Insurance Fund to make certain
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