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Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Occupational Exposure to Cellphone Radiation

Workers' Compensation

Last week, the French government requested that Apple stop selling the iPhone 12 model because of excessive radiation detected during recent tests. link] CELLPHONE ADOPTION ACCELERATES Cell phones have become an essential tool in the workplace and a significant source of revenue for their manufacturers. Frontiers in Public Health , 7.

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NJ Supreme Court Enhances Workplace Safety and Adopts an Updated Standard for Medical Causation

Workers' Compensation

A divided NJ Supreme Court upheld a verdict for an employee who suffered mesothelioma, a fatal cancer, as a result of a product manufacturer’s failure to warn of the lethal nature of the product in the workplace. The occupationally exposed employee worked at an adhesive manufacturing plant in Bloomfield NJ between 1954 and 1994.

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Medical Marijuana Within the Context of Workers’ Compensation Claims

The Workcomp Writer

Law § 13(a) required a workers’ compensation carrier to manufacture, distribute or possess marijuana. Justice Jabar added that there was no positive conflict between the CSA and the MMUMA because there no state law required the employer—or any person or entity—to possess, manufacture, or distribute marijuana. Workers’ Comp.

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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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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Workers’ compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 2

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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.