
A person must be in a “compensation status of some sort” to be considered a traveling employee and exempt from the preclusion on claims for
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Employer representatives told California lawmakers that it’s not appropriate to codify gender-based benefit increases into the state’s workers’ compensation law to address gender-based earning disparities.
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The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals upheld a judge’s determination that a worker had suffered a recurrence of a prior compensable injury in an on-the-job
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Including the cost of claims for COVID-19 in California employers’ experience rating calculations should serve as a financial incentive for businesses to take appropriate and
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A California appellate court upheld the dismissal of a chiropractor’s defamation claim against the California Insurance Guarantee Association and its claims administrator for mistakenly identifying
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The Oregon Supreme Court ruled that a worker is entitled to compensation for the full measure of impairment where it is caused in material part,
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A federal court on Thursday asked California’s Supreme Court to assess whether the derivative injury doctrine prohibits a civil claim against an employer when a
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The Governing Committee for the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Wednesday voted to recommend that California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara increase the advisory pure
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A California appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s tort claim against a grocery store she had previously identified as her employer in a
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A narrowly divided Superior Court of Pennsylvania overturned a grant of summary judgment to two corporate entities who asserted a statutory employer defense to an
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