WCD Posts Proposed Gender-Neutral Rules
The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division posted a copy of proposed rules that would strip all references to gender from the state’s comp regulations.
The WCD is proposing to edit Chapter 436…
Workers Get Full Compensation for Impairment Partially Caused by Compensable Injury
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled that a worker is entitled to compensation for the full measure of impairment where it is caused in material part, but not solely, by a…
High Court Clarifies Workers’ Entitlement to SLU Awards for Multiple Injuries
New York’s highest court ruled that a worker can receive a schedule loss of use award for different injuries to the same statutory member, and if the second injury has…
Committee Passes Extreme-Heat Study Bill
A California legislative committee passed a bill that would create an advisory committee within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to study the effects of extreme heat on workers, businesses…
Bill Amended to Transfer Oversight of CURES to Pharmacy Board
The California Board of Pharmacy would oversee the state’s prescription drug-monitoring database, under a recently amended bill.
Assemblyman Evan Low, D-San Jose, on Thursday amended AB 2055, which aims to divest…