Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 17, 2024

The bill amends current workers’ compensation law to add that a response to an emergency, including work sufficient to cause certain injuries or death, is compensable. In addition, paid, part-paid, or volunteer firefighters and police officers and members of a volunteer first aid or rescue squad are eligible for compensation.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Wearing an employer-designated work uniform shouldn’t result in severe and debilitating occupational exposures. Unfortunately, some American Airlines flight attendants suffered injuries from wearing the flight uniforms prescribed by their employer. The lawsuit that they filed lawsuit resulted in a $1.1 Million award.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.” OSC examined the files of ten claimants who collectively filed 300 claims during the course of their state employment.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Bob Wilson moderates a panel like few others, which has led to his perennial feature role of the Southern Association of Workers' Compensation Administrators ( SAWCA ) and "Things that make Bob go Hmmm?" Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging. to 11:30 a.m.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 24, 2023

The settlement terms are enumerated on a prescribed form and signed by the employee, employer, and judge of compensation after the employee has been fully advised of all rights. The legislative intent of the NJ Workers’ Compensation Act requires that the settlement of workers’ claims is fair and just under all circumstances.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 17, 2022

Employers whose annual premiums exceed $9,200 in annual premiums need to start paying closer attention to their workers’ compensation policies and safety practices. Under California’s workers’ compensation system rules, starting Sept.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Workplaces are now primed for a massive wave of compensation claims due to the Omicron variant. A recent study provides a potential opportunity for employers and insurance companies to reduce their risk exposure through early sequencing and treatment proactively. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY Some state workers’ compensation acts, including New Jersey, recognize radiation exposure as an occupational disease and afford injured workers and their dependents a remedy. Timely notice and the workers’ compensation claim filing must be satisfied under statutory requirements. 350 N.J.Super.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 15, 2022

A major disrupters in the workers’ compensation system is hurricanes. Workers’ compensation benefits are available to injured workers due to the consequences of hurricanes, including injuries from flooding and wind. Now is the time to prepare for such events. The 2022 Season is still predicted to be an abnormally high season.

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HR Bartender

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Most employers, knowing they almost always have some health-related information on their employees gathered from things such as workers’ compensation claims, fringe benefit administration, and administration of leave and absenteeism policies should be rightfully concerned about their compliance with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

In the accompanying slides and in some responses, I provide additional references as a starting point for understanding and comparing initial workers’ compensation. All workers’ compensation systems pay the same rate for lost wages…right? There may be some integration or offset of workers’ compensation in certain cases.

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HR Bartender

AUGUST 10, 2017

To help us understand employee compensation, I asked Ann Bares if she would share her expertise and, lucky for us, she said “yes”. Ann is managing partner with Altura Consulting Group and contributor to the Compensation Force and Compensation Café blogs. Ann, let’s start by covering the fundamentals of compensation.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 28, 2022

I have heard from lawyers for years regarding their perceptions of the Florida workers' compensation system, and those who run it. Their many thoughts and the promise of constructive feedback led to the implementation of the annual joint survey implemented by the OJCC and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 30, 2022

An employee may have dual employers but ultimately can only receive a single recovery from only one employer for work-related injuries. The “exclusivity doctrine,” permitting a complete recovery of damages against an employer, limits an injured worker’s benefit recovery to the compensation system, barring an intentional tort.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Workers’ compensation “reforms” are typically focused on reducing employer costs. See [link] ] Progress towards improving compensation for workers was noted; so were the many gaps and shortfalls in the present landscape of state workers’ compensation laws. Here are my top ten priorities.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 19, 2022

The workers’ compensation system nationally has been challenged over the last two plus years of the COVID Pandemic. The multi-state administered workers’ compensation program is based on a litigious patchwork of state programs with varying degrees of eligibility, procedures, and benefits. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 3, 2022

An asbestos manufacturer or supplier that places inadequate warnings on asbestos bags used in the workplace has a duty to warn the worker, regardless of whether it provides the employer with the correct information, which is reasonably intended to reach its employees. 34:15-7 to -35.22.” Adequate warnings provide workers with a choice.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 24, 2024

This level of disability also mirrors that seen in diabetes, for which $30 billion of indirect costs is spent annually on reduced employment due to disability. As workers continue to contract COVID-19, the consequences of Long COVID-19 remain a growing health and economic crisis for the workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As this holiday season approaches, employers, insurance companies, and employees will be facing what may be the biggest COVID challenges of the year. Compensation rating agencies should offer discounts when employers adopt pandemic preparedness protocols. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L., and Sutherland, Andrew D.

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