Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has until the end of May to decide whether to enact legislation that would subject as much as a quarter of an injured worker’s indemnity benefits…
The Oregon state House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would allow physician assistants to treat injured workers and authorize temporary disability under the same rules that apply to…
The owner of a Minnesota construction company was charged with workers’ compensation fraud after failing to report an injury at a job site, according to a report by an ABC…
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s request for repayment of permanent partial disability benefits offset against overlapping permanent total disability benefits.
Case: Beckelhimer v. Office of Insurance…
A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a married couple’s separation did not result in spousal desertion, so the husband remained entitled to benefits after the wife died from a…
The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that a per diem state psychiatrist was not entitled to the enhanced, full salary disability benefits that permanent employees could receive.
Case: Kelly v. Department of…