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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The “Unknown” occupational disease risk in workers’ compensation When workers’ compensation systems started a century ago, the focus was “industrial accidents”. page U47] Over time, most workers’ compensation systems adapted to include coverage for occupational diseases. In 2004, the avian in?

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Awards and Memories

Florida Workers' Comp

The Workers' Compensation Institute described the award: it "was created “to recognize those who had performed outstanding and selfless service in advancing the philosophy and practice of the workers’ compensation system.” Al was the manager of the Workers' Compensation Department. WCI Newsletter (May 2012).

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Judicial Oversight

Workers' Compensation

2d 636 (2004). Payments made under Section 20 may be considered payments of workers’ compensation for insurance rating purposes only. The insurance premium agency in NJ is the New Jersey Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau [NJCRIB]. . University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Inc. Christodoulou , 180 N.J.

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NC Employer May Not Use Truck Driver’s “Misconduct” in Causing Accident as Excuse for Denying TTD Benefits

The Workcomp Writer

2d 695 (2004). The employer also argued that the Full Commission erred by failing to find that the employer had not shown that Richard’s termination was unrelated to his compensable injury, and by concluding that Richards remained disabled or that he conducted a reasonable job search. Austin Co. , 228, 472 S.E.2d 488, 597 S.E.2d

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Issue Commentary: Employer’s Liability for Post-Injury Medical Treatment

The Workcomp Writer

2d 673 (Iowa 2004), the Supreme Court of Iowa held that administrators of the estate of a 19-year-old pizza parlor employee who died after being struck in the chest by his supervisor could not maintain an action against the employer for negligent hiring; the civil action was barred by the exclusive remedy provisions of the Iowa Act.

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Medical Marijuana Within the Context of Workers’ Compensation Claims

The Workcomp Writer

Claimant, a police officer, established two workers’ compensation claims—one involving a concussion and injuries to his right wrist, elbow, and shoulder stemming from a February 2004 incident where he slipped and fell on black ice while at work, and the other involving a 1998 work-related injury to his low back.