The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday reopened the rulemaking record partially and scheduled an informal public hearing on a proposed final rule to protect…
A New York appellate court sent a dispute over a worker’s entitlement to a schedule loss of use award back to the Workers’ Compensation Board because it failed to address…
A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that an employer entitled to statutory immunity from civil liability for a worker’s injuries could be named as a nonparty defendant in the…
A recently amended bill would give the California Division of Workers’ Compensation more time to complete a report analyzing the effect of exempting from prospective utilization review certain treatments provided…
A federal appellate court ruled that the filed-rate doctrine barred review of an employer’s challenge to the audit noncompliance charge assessed by its workers’ compensation insurance carrier.
Case: Granite State Insurance…
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Dollar Tree Stores Inc. $32,000 for repeated violations of workplace safety requirements.
The penalty was issued following an inspection of the Dollar Tree…