The Workers Compensation Research Institute will host a free webinar Sept. 29 to discuss its report on the variation in drug payments among states.
Vennela Thumula and Dongchun Wang, authors of…
An Arizona appellate court ruled that a worker was properly barred from relitigating claims for injuries that had already been rejected as noncompensable.
Case: Cullens v. Industrial Commission, No. 2 CA-IC 2021-0007,…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that a circuit court judge was required to affirm the denial of a worker’s claim for a service-connected disability pension.
Case: Anne Arundel County…
The Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected an insurance carrier’s objection to a third-party settlement that apportioned more than half of the payment to a gravely injured worker’s wife on a loss of consortium…
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced that it will hold a meeting with workers’ compensation system users Sept. 15 to discuss 2023 assessment rates.
Annual assessments fund operations…
California lawmakers signed off on amendments to bills that cut two weeks from the time employers have to accept liability for certain presumptive injury claims, extend a COVID-19 presumption for…