Workers' Compensation

MAY 31, 2022

US Government The US Government submitted a brief to SCOTUS by invitation. The US Government urged denial of the Writ. The US Government indicated that the issue is not ripe and may in fact be decided by the other branches of the Federal government. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al.,

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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 found that the Division misunderstood its role within state government. Since 2007, the Division has been required by law to lead a whole-of-government approach to managing risk within state government.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Bidwell (1901 - governance of territories); World War I (1918); The Scopes Trial (1925); racial equality in the military (1948); Nixon Meets Mao (1972); Genetically Modified Organisms (1980); Anita Hill speaks up (1991). What "moments matter" right now in the American workers' compensation systems? What mileposts have I missed?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 23, 2022

The world of workers' compensation is geographic and diverse. There is no workers' compensation "system," but at least 60 systems across the country. That congregation discusses the hot topics of workers' compensation before an audience at the WCI Workers' Compensation Educational Conference.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Now a federal program seeks to limit addiction by controlling how much medication injured federal government employees are allowed to receive. Department of Labor is responsible for managing the federal workforce’s workers’ compensation system through its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 12, 2019

Public spending refers to spending from governments and public agencies. Workers’ compensation spending on healthcare may be in either category or both depending on the jurisdiction. It may be tempting to dismiss workers’ compensation healthcare spending as a rounding error in terms of the national healthcare spending.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Last week, the French government requested that Apple stop selling the iPhone 12 model because of excessive radiation detected during recent tests. The court held that the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] pre-empted standards and the regulation of cellphone admission standards by state and local governments.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 24, 2023

The DWC is a quasi-judicial division of a department of the executive branch of the government, and its authority is strictly limited by the statute creating it. The legislative intent of the NJ Workers’ Compensation Act requires that the settlement of workers’ claims is fair and just under all circumstances. New Amsterdam Cas.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

OCTOBER 19, 2022

With this focus on executive compensation clawbacks, the DOJ is stepping into an area first highlighted by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which directed the Securities and Exchange Commission to promulgate rules requiring publicly-listed companies to have compensation clawback policies.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

The panel at the United States Department of Labor was focused specifically on half of the Grand Bargain, asking " Is the Workers’ Compensation System Serving Injured Workers? ” Law professor Emily Spieler , Northwestern University School of Law was included, as was workers compensation attorney Alan Pierce.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 28, 2022

National Geographic notes that “many (governments) had systems for anonymous denunciation of one kind or another." This facilitated an "inquisitorial” system in which "inquiry would be started from a public accusation which often involved witnesses, or a secret denunciation.” Venice was not alone.

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HR Bartender

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Thus, even the information held in employment records by healthcare institutions is generally not governed by HIPAA. The rule recognizes that employers, their workers’ compensation insurers and claims administrators have a legitimate need to access detailed medical records in order to efficiently administer the workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

Virtually all workers’ compensation claims involving time away from work are subject to specific provisions for the initial phase of a claim. In the accompanying slides and in some responses, I provide additional references as a starting point for understanding and comparing initial workers’ compensation. Canada, 2017].

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

while benefit costs were $11.55… Note, in this context, “civilian” workers include those employed in the private nonfarm economy (except those in private households) and workers in the public sector (except the federal government). Wages and salaries cost employers $25.22 What is critical is how “payroll” figures into the process.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Workers’ compensation laws are in effect in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. For more information about specific state workers’ compensation provisions, see State Laws.) The federal government provides similar coverage for civil, interstate railroad and maritime employees (see Federal Laws).

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

Part 1” at [link] or [link] ] In my previous post, I described the range of public policy insurance arrangements governments use in the workers’ compensation insurance market. As noted, the market for workers’ compensation is not a free market but one that is altered by government interventions and oversight. to 0.88.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 27, 2023

Whether you work as a Case Manager for workers’ compensation system, a client services representative for a transport-accident personal-injury insurance, a claims administrator for a non-occupational disability insurance plan, or a return-to-work specialist for a third-party administrator, you will face the disability insurance “trust gap”. [See

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Other state's workers' compensation systems "figured out" how to accept electronic documents as evidence. I recently read an article in which a workers' compensation judge explained a state's decision to eschew video as it presented too many challenges; Florida, on the contrary, switched to video with nary a hitch.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 12, 2024

As we note in Larson, the excessive and indiscriminate use of the lump-summing device has reached a point in some jurisdictions that it threatens to undermine the real purpose of the workers’ compensation system. Within the workers’ compensation context, the issues are more complex and nuanced.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 24, 2024

At all levels of government, we must do more to address the health crises countless Americans are living through because of coronavirus. 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. Lives are at stake.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 3, 2022

While the workers’ compensation system is remedial social legislation crafted over a century ago, it does not provide sufficient economic incentive to make the workplace safer and offer adequate damages to make the worker and his dependents whole from the loss created by an unsafe workplace. Cochran Western Corp.,

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 8, 2023

The limited resources of state-based workers’ compensation systems are too fiscally restrictive to embrace the long-term treatment and disability benefits that will emerge from successive infectious disease outbreaks. The Federal government has continued to active monitoring COVID-19.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 13, 2021

The total rewards program should incorporate a comprehensive benefits package beyond the minimums mandated by the federal government. Total rewards programs are meant to simplify employee benefits, compensation , and training. It's a guaranteed strategy that boosts profits, employee retention, and employee satisfaction.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

For more than a century, governments have pursued a social policy objective: to protect workers from work-related injury, disability, illness and death in a compassionate and sustainable way that still allows the economic activity and innovation necessary for societies to operate and thrive. Government interventions alter the market.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JANUARY 1, 2019

To forestall this eventuality, the majority of North American workers’ compensation jurisdictions adjust periodic payments (sometimes called workers’ compensation pensions or permanent disability payments) to account for increases in the cost of living. per cent beginning on January 1.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

369 (act or medical marijuana act), was carefully drafted by its sponsors to take into account the difficult regulatory environment, with provisions specifically designed to avoid possible conflicts with the Federal government. The Court noted that the Commonwealth’s original medical marijuana act, St. 369, § 7 (B).

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