Workers Comp

A New York thermometer manufacturer is facing $195,988 in proposed penalties from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over claims it overexposed its workers to mercury at its facility. OSHA on Monday announced citations against West Babylon, New York-based Kessler Thermometer Corp. for willfully exposing and sickening employees by allowing airborne concentrations of mercury to …

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A Georgia manufacturing company has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a worker suffered severe injuries when his head became caught in a machine roller last summer. OSHA on Monday cited Lafayette, Georgia-based Bonded Logic Inc. for two willful, two repeat and 10 serious violations after inspectors said the 21-year-old line …

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A workers compensation claim doesn’t ever mean you’re winning in life, and a woman in North Carolina was quick to see that when she got a suspicious text telling her that said she had won thousands of dollars in a workers comp claim. Problem was, she was never injured at work, she told an Action …

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New York lawmakers filed legislation Tuesday that would designate post-traumatic stress disorder as a compensable occupational injury in workers compensation for certain first responders. Assembly Bill 5135 would create a presumption that PTSD in law enforcement officers and emergency medical services personnel is proximately caused by employment unless it can be proved the diagnosis stems …

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Texas law enforcement officers who become injured while traveling to or from work would be eligible to collect workers compensation benefits under legislation filed on Tuesday. House Bill 3335 would add “peace officers” to the list of other emergency responders permitted to file for comp benefits if they are injured during their work commute. Under …

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The federal indictment in North Carolina of a former insurance executive is attracting much attention. Source link

Harford Mutual Insurance Group said late Thursday that monoline workers compensation insurer ClearPath Mutual Insurance Co. would merge into the larger property/casualty insurer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Louisville, Kentucky-based ClearPath, which until 2018 was known as the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Fund, or KESA, offers coverage in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and West …

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An Arkansas appeals court on Wednesday reversed a lower court decision permitting a worker injured in Afghanistan to transfer structured settlement annuity payments in a workers compensation case to take advantage of a lump-sum payment discount, ruling the transfer was prohibited.   In Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Co. v. Roosevelt Land Partners Corp., the Court …

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Florida legislators are considering a bill that would increase by up to 50% fees paid to expert medical witnesses and physicians in workers compensation. S.B. 1344, introduced Wednesday, states that any health care provider who gives a deposition shall be allowed a witness fee that may not exceed $300 per hour, up from $200 in …

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The California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board announced Monday that outdoor job sites must contain accessible potable drinking water close to where employees work, the precedential decision binding for employers in a state considered to be one of the world’s largest economies. The OSHAB determined that outdoor workplace drinking water must be located “as …

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