California lawmakers concluded their 2022 legislative session by passing bills that would allow social workers to be listed in medical provider networks, and give some state firefighters full-pay salary continuation…
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Bureau of California will discuss the new advisory pure premium rates that went into effect Thursday during a webinar later in September.
Commissioner Ricardo Lara
California Insurance…
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…