01/03/2007
Iowa interim Workers' Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey said a report by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services confirms that workers' compensation insurance rates in Iowa continue to be among the lowest in the nation.
"I am pleased to report that Iowa employers
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12/18/2020
Decided and Entered October 21 2010
508273 In the Matter of the Claim of
1MANUEL A. RODRIGUEZ Respondent
v
REICON GROUP LLC et al. Appellants. WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD Respondent.
Calendar Date September 17 2010
Before Cardona P.J. Peters Rose Malone Jr. and
Category: Cases
09/02/2008
The states largest employer organization has outlined its workers compensation agenda for the 2009 Texas Legislature with opposition to mandatory workers compensation and protection of the option for employers to be nonsubscribers topping the list.
Texas is the only state which doesnt require
Category: News
02/01/2013
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announced the three finalists for consideration to fill the current vacancy on the Workers Compensation Court of Appeals created when Judge Thomas L. Johnsons term expired.
Judge Bradley J. Behr is a workers compensation judge at the Office of Administrative Hearings
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07/10/2012
The Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court reports the court's new handbook is available for purchase at its offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa and by mail.
Cost for the handbook is 40.
The court said the handbook includes
Statutes current through 2012.
Court and administrator rules current
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07/10/2015
Gov. Scott Walker
The Wisconsin Legislature has voted to shake up the states workers compensation judicial system sending administrative law judges to a new division where they will devote 20 of their time to cases other than workers' compensation.
The Assembly passed a budget
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09/08/2011
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced on Wednesday that it has established a new Office of Workers' Compensation Ombudsman to provide advice and assistance to employees and small businesses.
Department Commissioner Ken Peterson said the goal is to "help injured workers and small
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08/13/2013
By John P. Kamin Reporter
Apple Inc. agreed to require builders of its new 300 million facility to obtain workers' compensation coverage after a workers' rights group encouraged protestors to attend an Austin City Council meeting which led to several weeks of negotiations.
The Workers Defense
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10/28/2008
A California appeals court denied an increase in an injured worker's disability award even though the workers' compensation judge admitted an error in calculating her average weekly wage because the woman could not prove her petition for reconsideration was timely filed.
The woman's case was
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12/17/2020
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Appellant seeks review of a partial summary judgment in a personal injury
action which held that as a matter of law it was not entitled to workers' compensation
immunity. Although nonfinal the order is appealable pursuant to Florida Rule of
Appellate Procedure 9.130a3Cv. Martin Elecs. Inc. v
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