Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Insurance Expert Predicts Growth Drivers for Workers Comp in a Sluggish Economy ...
A claims adjuster who had been assigned remote duties in connection with the devastation to Galveston Island caused by Hurricane Ike and who drank one evening to the point of intoxication did not remain within the scope of employment under the traveling employee...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Experience Modification Rate Can Lead to Higher WC Premiums, Lost Work Opportunities...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Travelers Becomes Largest WC Insurer, Liberty Mutual Falls to Second Place . Benign...
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Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. CMS Changes Reporting Threshold for Liability Settlements, Judgments, Awards, Other...
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In order for an aggrieved party to perfect an appeal of a Board decision, the party must serve a notice of appeal on both the Board and the Department within 30 days of the Board’s decision [Rev. Code Wash. § 51.52.110] and that time frame is mandatory; the court...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Lawmakers Propose Amendment to LHWCA re Definition of Recreational Vessel . CDC...
Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , a Washington appellate court held that a trial court’s refusal to give a jury instruction as to the odd lot rule was appropriate. The court reasoned that an “odd lot” worker need not show that he or she was incapable...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS: Insurance Expert Lists Strategies for Battling Prescription...
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