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Lawmaker Trims Year Off Proposed COVID-19 Presumption Extension
08/29/2022
automatically at the end of the year. AB 1751 by Assemblyman Tom Daly D-Anaheim would maintain the presumption until Jan. 1 2024 under amendments he adopted Thursday.
Earlier versions of the bill would have kept the presumption in place through Jan. 1 2025.
At the same time Daly added language that
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Senate Passes Lifeguard Skin Cancer Presumption , Insurance Fraud Bill
08/25/2022
The California Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that would expand the presumption that skin cancer is work-related for peace officers with the state departments of Fish and Wildlife and Parks and Recreation.
On the same day the Senate voted 38-0 to send AB 334 to the governor the
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Assembly Passes PTSD Expansion; Contractor Coverage Bill Heading to Governor
08/24/2022
The California Assembly unanimously approved a bill that would expand the types of first responders eligible for the presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is work-related while the Senate unanimously concurred in amendments to a bill that would require comp coverage for certain
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Deputy's Failure to Treat Risk for Heart Condition Doesn't Undermine Claim
08/22/2022
A Florida appellate court overturned a denial of benefits to a sheriffs deputy for heart disease finding his failure to follow a course of treatment for conditions that were risk factors did not override the statutory presumption that his ailment was work-related.
Ismael Tiburcio worked for
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Bill to Expand PTSD Presumption Back After Spending Year on 'Inactive File'
08/22/2022
A bill that would give more workers a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is job-related is up for a third and final vote in the California Assembly after spending the last year on the lower chambers inactive file.
Sen. Henry Stern
Senate Bill 284 which the Assembly sent
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Privette Doctrine Bars Parents' Suit for Worker's Death
08/19/2022
doctrine there is a strong presumption that a hirer of an independent contractor delegates to the contractor all responsibility for workplace safety. The doctrine has exceptions though such as when the hiring party has violated specific nondelegable duties to the injured worker or retained control over
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Lawmaker Proposes Adding Former Firefighters to Presumption Law
08/19/2022
Michigan lawmakers may add former firefighters as qualified recipients for benefits under the states 2014 firefighter cancer presumption law less than one year after lawmakers made volunteer firefighters eligible.
HB 6360 introduced by Rep. Jeffrey Yaroch R-Richmond on Wednesday would
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Bill to Shorten Investigation Period Amended to Remove COVID Provisions
08/17/2022
through 3213.2.
Lawmakers created Labor Code Section 3212.87 in 2020 when they established the COVID-19 presumption for firefighters peace officers nurses and other health care workers. The section includes a provision that says if liability for a COVID-19 claim is not rejected within 30 days the
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Committees Pass Bills to Expand COVID Presumption , Narrow Liability Investigation Window
08/15/2022
lawmakers this year that would extend COVID-19 presumptions enacted in 2020.
SB 1127 would apply to presumptive injury claims described in Labor Code Sections 3212-3212.85 as well as those in 3212.87 through 3213.2.
Labor Code Section 3212.87 establishes the COVID-19 presumption for firefighters
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IMR Decisions on Pace for 4th Consecutive Decrease
08/05/2022
-19 the policy appears to have served that goal the report says.
Senate Bill 1159 created a presumption that COVID-19 was compensable for police firefighters and health care workers who tested positive for the disease within 14 days of going to work.
The bill created a separate presumption
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