The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries posted guidance on laws enacted during the 2021 session creating presumptions that COVID-19 is compensable for health care and other frontline workers.
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A divided Arkansas Court of Appeals overruled its own precedent to find that the continued payment of indemnity benefits will extend the statute of limitations for additional medical benefits.
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The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the Profile Audit Review performance standard for 2022 is 1.68032.
Audit subjects with a score of 1.68032 or lower will be required to…
A California appellate court ruled that a worker who was fired because of accounting discrepancies in the books she kept failed to state any claim against her former employer that…
The Workers Compensation Research Institute published the 2021 edition of its New York workers’ compensation system trends report.
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The study, “Monitoring Trends in the New York Workers’ Compensation System,”…
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation increased the gross annual payroll requirements for coverage of seasonal workers for next year.
The amount for 2022 will be $60,726, an increase of 2.8%…