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Bills to Maintain Debit Card Payments, Extend Presumptions in SD Go to Senate Floor
06/28/2023
Assemblymember Akilah Weber D-San Diego would create a presumption that certain conditions arose out of employment for full-time members of the boating safety unit in the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Presumptive injuries would include hernias pneumonia heart trouble cancer tuberculosis bloodborne
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Committee Passes Debit Card Payment, Presumption Bills
06/16/2023
Employment and Retirement on Wednesday voted 5-0 to pass AB 699 and AB 489.
AB 699 by Assemblymember Akilah Weber D-San Diego would establish that full-time members of the boating safety unit in the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department are eligible for the presumption that certain conditions arose out of
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Debit Card Payment, Presumption Bills Set for June 14 Hearing
06/05/2023
presumption of compensability for conditions including hernia pneumonia heart trouble cancer tuberculosis bloodborne infectious disease methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infection meningitis-related illnesses PTSD and exposure to biochemical substances.
AB 489 by Assemblymember Lisa
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DWC Releases Final COVID-19 Results Fact Sheet
06/05/2023
after lawmakers in 2021 passed Senate Bill 22 creating a statutory presumption for claims involving most first responders detentions officers and custodial officers. Carriers accepted 113 of the reprocessed claims and denied 69.
The final COVID-19 results fact sheet can be viewed on DWCs website
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Assembly Passes Bill to Exempt UR Time From TD Cap, Expand PTSD Presumption
05/30/2023
The California Assembly passed bills that would exempt time spent disputing medical treatment issues from the aggregate cap on temporary disability benefits as well as a measure to create a post-traumatic stress disorder presumption for nurses at state hospitals.
The Assembly last week also
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Senate Passes PTSD Presumption , UR Licensing Measures
05/24/2023
The California Senate passed bills that would require that some utilization reviewers be licensed in the state and would extend a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable to additional public safety workers.
The Senate on Monday voted 35-0 to pass SB 623 which would apply
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Fiscal Committees Pass Comp Bills Ahead of Deadline
05/23/2023
reopened cases is known according to the analysis prepared for the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
The committee voted 15-0 to pass the measure Thursday.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday also voted 14-0 to pass AB 1145 which would create a presumption that post-traumatic stress
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Court Upholds Denial of Benefits for Worker's Alleged Injuries from Fall Through Roof
05/22/2023
presumption that had the evidence been produced it would have been detrimental to the litigant's case."
While Copeland testified that he completed an incident report for the Steeplechase owner as well as a detailed statement for GDE the court said the adverse presumption did not apply to the incident
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Supreme Court Says Worker's Fiancee May Qualify for Death Benefits as 'Family Member'
05/19/2023
' Compensation denied Carpenters claim.
A district hearing officer affirmed the BWCs decision but a staff hearing officer vacated it.
Because Carpenter and McDonald never married the hearing officer said Carpenter was not entitled to a presumption of being wholly dependent on McDonald as a surviving
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Self-Employed Worker Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim
05/18/2023
presumption that the ladder did not afford proper protection to him.
The court said the defendants failed to raise any triable issue as to the adequacy of the ladder and the fact that Barnhardt brought the ladder himself did not preclude liability by the defendants.
Disposition Reversed ands the
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