The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 14, 2024

A Louisiana appellate court recently held that, under the particular facts of the case before it, there was no evidence that COVID-19 was caused by an occurrence or condition that was “characteristic of and peculiar to” an outdoor oilfield surveyor’s job.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 4, 2024

Background Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York closed its school buildings in March 2020 and engaged in remote instruction through the conclusion of the 2019-2020 school year. Two weeks later, claimant was informed that another teacher at the school had tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the temporary closure of the school building.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 6, 2023

Today, the California Supreme Court decided that the Workers’ Compensation Act [WCA] did not bar a derivative claim. Household contacts are those individuals who contract a disease due to a toxin substance brought home by a worker. Read more here. If there was ever a ‘floodgates’ situation, this is it.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Legislation ( A3504 ) has been introduced to establish the Health Care Workers COVID-19 Supplemental Benefits Program in the Division of Workers' Compensation. DURATION 180 WEEKS The supplemental benefits do not commence until all benefits equal to the healthcare worker’s full salary have ended.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 4, 2024

Long COVID-Related deaths are statistically significant and will be reflected in an increase in workers' compensation dependency awards. Long COVID deaths represented less than 1% of the 1,021,487 deaths for which COVID-19 was the underlying or contributing cause of death in that period. 2024 Update In Press.

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The Workcomp Writer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Background Meeks filed a complaint pursuant to the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), seeking benefits for her exposure to and diagnosis of COVID-19 in June 2020, while working as a certified nurse’s assistant for a nursing home. Opp Health & Rehab., LLC , 2024 Ala. LEXIS 17 (Jan. 31, 2024)].

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Workers' Compensation

MARCH 26, 2024

The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, ruled that a third-party lien can remain unresolved until the workers’ compensation claim is adjudicated. Joseph filed a workers’ compensation action against NJ Transit and a third-party action against the tortfeasor involved in the accident (the “underlying action”).

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 1, 2023

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued an order that cuts the average advisory workers’ compensation benchmark rate across all classes by 2.6%, starting Sept. The number of workers’ compensation claims hit a low of 13 per 1,000 workers last year. per $100 of payroll as of Jan.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MAY 9, 2023

In a sign of the long-lasting effects of reforms enacted a decade ago, California’s workers’ compensation rate-making agency will recommend that average benchmark rates increase a mere 0.3%. The number of workers’ compensation claims hit a low of 13 per 1,000 workers in 2022, down from 49 in 1991.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 5, 2022

For the third year in a row, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has rejected the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s proposal for a workers’ compensation rate increase, and has ordered instead that benchmark rates remain the same. COVID-19 claims.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While the Federal expanded benefits are ending for many workers on Labor Day, Workers’ Compensation Benefits are still available for those workers who have been exposed to COVID at work and contract disease and remain ill from Long COVID. Wanga V, Chevinsky JR, Dimitrov LV, et al. The number may even be higher.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The First District Court affirmed Judge Case's order on September 19, 2023, but without any explanation or edification. I overheard one attendee ask "is this workers' compensation?" People who thrive in the world of workers' compensation tend to be rather unifaceted. In that, there is some letdown for the viewer.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 8, 2024

The issue was not whether the nurse could have contracted COVID-19 at work, but rather did she so contract it there, stressed the court. Hudson worked as a front-line nurse for Beebe Medical Center on a COVID-19 floor in the fall of 2020. She contracted COVID-19 at some point in October 2020 and was hospitalized on October 21.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 14, 2023

In June 2022, the Kentucky Worker’s Compensation Board rendered an intriguing reminder, vacating and remanding an order by the administrative law judge. Bustle, Claim 201997527, the judge awarded various benefits to the injured worker. The worker here, however, returned to work in July 2019. In Sourcehov v.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JULY 20, 2022

The California State Supreme Court will take up a case to decide whether an employer can be sued for liability when a worker contracts COVID-19 at work and then passes it on to a family member. The 9 th U.S. She appealed to the 9 th U.S.

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InterWest Insurance Services

APRIL 25, 2022

California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is recommending that benchmark workers’ compensation rates for all class codes in the state increase an average of 7.6%. Each workers’ comp class code has its own pure premium rate. What’s happening. from $29,896 as of Dec.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the last two years, chaos has reigned in the workplace as workers, employers, and insurance companies attempted to adjust to the emergence of COVID and its multiple variants. While infectious diseases have impacted occupational environments in the last century, the lack of preparation was totally inadequate. What is Our COVID Future?,

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InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 20, 2022

6) Contractor workers’ comp. A new law will require almost all contractors in California to carry workers’ compensation coverage, regardless of if they have employees or not. Currently, only roofers are required to carry workers’ comp insurance even if they claim to have no employees. Tree service contractors (D-49).

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InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 20, 2023

No more non-competes Under two new laws, non-compete agreements with employees are expressly illegal starting in 2024 and if an employer requires one be signed, it could provide grounds for a lawsuit by the worker. If you have remote workers, you’ll want to ensure they are in the telecommuter class code to enjoy the lower premium.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

From July 27, 2020, to July 31, 2020, among other things, Foster administered COVID-19 tests to inmates and staff in the medical unit of Southern Regional Jail. On August 3, 2020, PrimeCare sent home those who had attended the meeting to quarantine until August 7, 2020, due to members of the staff testing positive for COVID-19.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

NGHP includes workers’ compensation claims. Gelman of Wayne, NJ, is the author of NJ Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters) and co-author of the national treatise Modern Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters). The effective date of this final rule is December 11, 2023.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 7, 2024

19 L 009793 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (December 22, 2024) RELATED: Health Effects of Workers' Home Contamination Who Is Exposed to Asbestos - Who is At Risk? ORDER NOW Gelman on Workers' Compensation Law 3rd Ed. Jackson, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas J. Jackson, Deceased vs. A.W.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 28, 2023

The court held substantial evidence supported the Board’s conclusion that claimant failed to meet her burden to demonstrate that her husband had contracted COVID-19 in the course of his employment. His death certificate identified the immediate cause of death as “COVID-19.” The employer and its carrier controverted the claim.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jon Gelman’s* newly revised and updated treatise on Workers’ Compensation Law can now be ordered from Thomson Reuters®. The treatise is the most complete and research-integrated work on NJ Workers’ Compensation law. Gelman on Workers' Compensation Law is Now Available on PROVIEW™ as an e-BOOK Edition.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 16, 2024

This month, The Point will address "AI, Workers’ Comp, And Your Future." We are going to get the down low and nitty gritty from Jackie Jackson, the Manager of Business Operations at the Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation, and Jeff Snider, the General Manager of P&C at Gradient AI. On August 19, 2024, from 1:15-3:30.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

While it presented evidence that tended to show that the firefighter’s COVID-19 condition could have been the result of exposure within the general public, the presence of the presumption required that it actually prove the COVID-19 exposure had not been work related. On December 27, 2020, Braden tested positive for COVID-19.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The court carefully examined, but found unpersuasive, the employer’s argument that the plaintiffs’ exclusive remedy was pursuant to California’s Workers’ Compensation Act under the so-called “derivative injury doctrine” [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 100.05]. Superior Court of Cal. Background. 1997) 16 Cal.4th

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Florida Workers' Comp

MAY 15, 2022

Dr. Beaudoin mentioned that there are burden of proof challenges in general, but that these are mentioned often in the workers' compensation context. As we focus on the workers' compensation, there is then challenge for the risk manager, and in a variety of contexts for the human resource manager.

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JUNE 13, 2023

The worker, a machine operator, was hired by the employer in January 2018. The worker went to get a free COVID test at a clinic and, while awaiting the results, offered to return to work and maintain social distancing. The next day, plaintiff was able to go to a free clinic to obtain a COVID-19 test. NJ: Appellate Div.

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 21, 2022

This case illustrates the difficulty in establishing a viable COVID-19 claim in the absence of a presumption of compensability. This case illustrates the difficulty in establishing a viable COVID-19 claim in the absence of a presumption of compensability. Arconic Inc. 2022-Ohio-1997, 2022 Ohio App. Background.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Tragically, a vast number of people have been infected with SARS-C0V-2, the "novel coronavirus" which causes the disease we all know as COVID-19. The allegation is of misrepresentation and the inappropriate collection of only $1,700 in workers' compensation benefits. However, who couldn't use an extra $1,700?

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A Texas judge has blocked a new state law prohibiting local governments from requiring water breaks for construction workers. Complaint ) The cities argued that the law would have put their workers at risk of heat illness and death. The state has a hot and humid climate, and heat-related illnesses are a major problem for workers.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 3, 2023

Across the galaxy, young people are returning to school, football returns to the fore, and everyone's thoughts turn to the annual workers' compensation conference. Here, I have listed what I see as the "can't miss" opportunities for 2023: Saturday, August 19, 2023 07:00- 12:00 - Give Kids the World Village work day. 1:30 p.m. -

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 3, 2023

Across the galaxy, young people are returning to school, football returns to the fore, and everyone's thoughts turn to the annual workers' compensation conference. Here, I have listed what I see as the "can't miss" opportunities for 2023: Saturday, August 19, 2023 07:00- 12:00 - Give Kids the World Village work day. 1:30 p.m. -

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Florida Workers' Comp

JUNE 26, 2022

19-1392 (June 24, 2022). One might struggle with the implications for workers' compensation; I periodically get inquiries, essentially "what does this have to do with workers' comp." In a nutshell, the law has everything to do with workers' compensation, and this community is touched in many ways by the U.S.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 12, 2022

21, 2021, incident and determined 6-foot chain-link safety guards were not affixed around the 8-inch extrusion press line to prevent workers from coming in contact with the puller. This action is in addition to a workers' compensation claim. Gelman, Jon L, Workers’ Compensation Law , 38 NJPRAC 1.7 385, 823 A.2d

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 31, 2022

A New York appellate court affirmed an award of benefits to an employee who contracted COVID-19 in spite of the fact that New York had no special presumption of compensability regarding such claims [ Matter of Pierre v. Upon administrative review, the New York Workers’ Compensation Board affirmed. ABF Freight , 2022 N.Y.

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