The California Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on a bill that would authorize electronic signatures for workers’ compensation proceedings after lawmakers return from summer recess.
The committee is scheduled…
Workers’ compensation defense firm Gilson Daub opened a new office in Chicago that it said was part of its expansion efforts in the Midwest.
Elizabeth Vicars
At the same time, the…
A New York appellate court rejected an insurance carrier’s challenge to its liability for injuries two workers suffered while being transported in a van to a jobsite.
Case: Matter of Reyes Bonilla…
An Ohio appellate court ruled that if a worker’s injury results in the severance of some part of the proximal phalanx, the injury must be treated as a loss of…
The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that an injured worker pleaded his retaliation claims in such a way as to remove his case from the jurisdiction of the state…
The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that Wesley G. Marshall was elected to a three-year term as chairman, effective Monday.
Wesley G. Marshall
Marshall succeeds Commissioner Robert A. Rapaport, whose term…