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Lawmakers Pass Cancer Presumption Bill and Nurse Payment Resolution
04/24/2024
Hawaii lawmakers passed a bill that would add breast cancer and cancer of female reproductive organs to the list of conditions that are presumed comp
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Court Overturns PTD Award for Worker With PTSD
04/17/2024
permanent total disability benefits.
Analysis The Court of Appeal for the 2nd Circuit of Louisiana explained that compensation for permanent total disability shall be awarded only if the employee proves by clear and convincing evidence unaided by any presumption of disability that the employee is
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Committee Passes TD Expansion, Ag Worker Protection Bills
04/12/2024
Members of a California Senate committee passed bills that would in some instances make temporary disability benefits available after an injury becomes permanent and stationary and create a presumption that heat-related injuries are compensable for agricultural workers under certain circumstances
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Governor Signs Reform Bill
04/12/2024
convincing evidence of the need for future medical treatment to rebut a presumption that the employers liability for medical ends when a worker reaches maximum medical improvement.
Both chambers of the Legislature unanimously passed the bill.
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Worker Gets Presumption That Recent Symptoms Relate to Old Back Injury
04/11/2024
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker was entitled to a presumption that some of his symptoms were related to an old back injury and that his employer failed to rebut it.
Case Rickley v. Dandy Service Corp. WCAB No. 524 C.D. 2023 04042024 unpublished.
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Senate Committee Hears Comp Bills Today
04/10/2024
Members of the California Senate Labor Public Employment and Retirement Committee are scheduled to hear testimony today on bills that would create a presumption that heat-related injuries are compensable for farmworkers and would authorize temporary disability benefits when people miss work for
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Work Comp Bills Head to Governor's Desk
04/03/2024
increase over the current testing range of 500 hertz to 3000 hertz and it would require tinnitus to be considered part of a covered workers hearing loss.
The House also voted 136-1 to pass SB 476 by Senate President Bill Ferguson D-Baltimore. The bill would create a presumption that thyroid colon
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Bills Propose Penalty for Unreasonable Denial, Presumption of Compensability After 90 Days
03/27/2024
Rep. Sylvia Taylor D-Laplace introduced HB 765 which would create a rebuttable presumption that a claim is compensable 90 days following the date of an accident.
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Amended Bill Would Tap Revolving Fund to Pay for Heat Injury Presumption
03/26/2024
A one-time transfer of 5 million from the Workers Compensation Administration Revolving Fund would be used to establish an account to cover administrative costs associated with a proposed heat injury presumption for California farmworkers under a recently amended bill.
Sen. Dave Cortese D
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Senate Passes Bill to Expand Cancer Presumption
03/18/2024
which would presume that thyroid colon and ovarian cancer were caused by contact with a toxic substance in the line of duty.
The presumption would apply to firefighters and firefighting instructors rescue squad members members of advanced life support units and fire marshals.
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