State Compensation Insurance Fund president and CEO Vern Steiner is among the handful of California state executives earning more than $1 million a year, according
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Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would revise how temporary and permanent disability benefits are calculated.
Currently, benefits are equal to two-thirds of an
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The Georgia Supreme Court this month disbarred a claimants’ attorney who forged his clients’ signatures on checks and stole $159,615 in proceeds for his own
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A bill introduced in West Virginia on Monday would adopt a nearly 40-year-old federal standard for determining whether a worker is an employee or a contractor.
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West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 12% permanent partial disability award to a worker for his loss of grip strength due to a
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A New York appellate court upheld the establishment of a worker’s occupational disease claim for her elbows.
Case: Matter of Moe v. America Ootoya Chelsea,
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The Nevada Division of Insurance has approved a 21.6% increase in workers' compensation loss costs, effective March 1, according to the National Council on Compensation
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A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a determination that triable issues precluded summary judgment on a worker’s tort suit for his injuries from a skid
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The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow first responders to use a preemployment physical examination from a former employer to invoke the
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New Jersey lawmakers have introduced legislation that would effectively codify a state Supreme Court decision holding that volunteer firefighters injured in the line of duty
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