The Michigan Supreme Court issued four separate opinions regarding an opioid-dependent worker’s eligibility for benefits, with a majority concluding the record was “too incomplete to facilitate
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that utilization review determinations can't be used to establish the causal relationship between a treatment and a work injury,
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The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits from the Second Injury Fund for a worker who presented equivocal, but uncontroverted, evidence about whether
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A Louisiana appellate court upheld a determination that an insurance carrier owed no coverage for a worker’s claims that he was assaulted and battered by
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The California Workers’ Compensation Institute reported that a rise in medical-only and indemnity claim volume in 2021 drove frequency for private self-insured employers to the highest
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The South Dakota Supreme Court upheld the denial of permanent total disability benefits for a hospital worker who claimed to suffer psychological conditions after being
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Legislation that supporters say would remediate delays and denials in cases involving injuries that are presumed compensable would likely have no effect on the majority
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Written premium in 2021 didn’t recover from the shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic as expected, but officials with the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of
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The Delaware Superior Court ruled that an injured worker was entitled to recover the amount of his outstanding balances from his employer as the “reasonable”
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California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara for a third consecutive year rejected a proposed increase to the workers’ compensation advisory pure premium rate.
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