08/02/2011
By Jon Gelman Workers' Compensation payments are so intertwined with the national system of workers' compensation that a potential U.S. credit fault will impact the system significantly. Workers' Compensation is social remedial legislation and as the U.S. government leaders
Category: Industry Insights
12/09/2005
Chairman David Wehner will leave the New York State Workers' Compensation Board to become executive director of the State Insurance Fund NYSIF the insurer announced Thursday.
Wehner's move over to the State Fund had been expected. His appointment became official Wednesday at the NYSIF board
Category: News
03/09/2010
By Bill Kidd Central Bureau Chief
billkiddtexas.net
Major stakeholders announced their support Monday for the 2010 workers' compensation research agenda proposed for adoption by the Texas Department of Insurance -- but urged future studies of prescription drug costs patterns of use and medical
Category: News
07/27/2005
A Spanish-language handbook to familiarize employees with workers' compensation is available for free through the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation.
The revised " Workers' Compensation in California A Guidebook for Injured Workers" was developed by the Labor
Category: News
04/12/2022
For those readers who are interested in learning about current issues in workers’ compensation I highly recommend the 2021 LexisNexis book entitled “ Workers Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis.”
Category: Industry Insights
02/11/2010
An Illinois appellate court has opted not to rehear a case where it decided that state law and public policy supported the withdrawal of past-due child support payments from a workers' compensation award.
The 4th District Appellate Court of Illinois declined a petition to rehear a decision where
Category: News
07/11/2023
By Steve Nichols News Contributor
Although Texas employers are not required to purchase workers compensation recent data shows that more than 4 of 5 private sector employees were covered in 2022 the highest coverage rate in more than a decade.
Texas is the only state in which employers
Category: News
04/01/2008
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH Legally Uninsured; STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND
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11/28/2018
A New York appellate court last week ruled that the state Workers Compensation Board erred in taking jurisdiction over a railway workers claim of injury without first determining whether every relevant party had waived rights and remedies under federal law.
Railway workers are generally
Category: News
02/08/2013
By Bill Kidd Central Bureau Chief
A Minnesota advisory panel next week will consider whether Amish businesses should be exempt from carrying workers' compensation insurance for their Amish employees or whether such an exemption would create an unfair competitive advantage.
Members of the Old
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