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Thursday, June 1, 2023
- State: Wyoming
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The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s claim of additional injuries from a workplace injury to her lower back.
Case: Vandom v. State
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- State: Colorado
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Colorado’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, Pinnacol Assurance, recently issued a general dividend of $15 million.
The carrier said this is its eighth consecutive dividend and
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- State: California
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The California Senate last week passed a bill that would request a study on the viability of linking workers’ compensation reimbursement for medical services to
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- State: California
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The California Division of Workers’ Compensation on Friday proposed evidence-based changes to the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule that would adopt the latest guidelines published by
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- State: Oregon
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The maximum temporary disability benefit is dropping 2.2% for injuries occurring on or after July 1, the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division announced.
The maximum statutory
… Read more »Friday, May 26, 2023
- State: California
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California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s annual regulatory filing.
Commissioner Ricardo Lara
Among other things, the
… Read more »Friday, May 26, 2023
- State: Oregon
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The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that an injured worker is entitled to a reasonable award incurred in determining the proper fee for prevailing against
… Read more »Friday, May 26, 2023
- State: California
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The California Senate passed a bill that would require the Division of Workers’ Compensation to study differences in benefits provided to injured workers based on
… Read more »Thursday, May 25, 2023
- State: New Mexico
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The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that a workers’ compensation judge erred in combining a worker’s schedule injuries with non-schedule injuries into one permanent partial disability
… Read more »Thursday, May 25, 2023
- State: Washington
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The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a finding that an injured worker could not be bound by the terms of an agreement she had signed to
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