A New York appeals court Thursday reversed an administrative decision that had disallowed a psychological injury claim filed by a New York City Transit Authority train conductor who said he developed anxiety due to COVID-19 exposure in the workplace. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York said the Workers’ Compensation Board erred …
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Workers on the job for less than one year make up about 40% of all California workers compensation claims, and employees with less tenure are more than twice as likely to have a claim relative to the statewide average, according to a report released Thursday by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. The …
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday signed into law legislation that creates criminal penalties for employers that falsify payroll records to lower workers compensation premiums. The measure, Senate Bill 1580, says any employer that submits a false payroll report to the Workers’ Compensation Board, its chairperson or the director of the Department of Consumer and …
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Workers compensation patients had a higher prevalence of psychosocial risk factors than private-insurance patients, and a stronger association between psychosocial risk factors and functional outcomes, according to a study released Thursday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Researchers said psychosocial risk factors include poor recovery expectations after an injury, fear avoidance, poor coping, catastrophizing, and …
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Friday signed into law various amendments to the state’s workers compensation law. Acting on a recommendation from the Workers Compensation Advisory Council, the governor approved Assembly Bill 1073, which makes several changes to the state’s workers comp system. The law increases the amount of large Uninsured Employer Fund claims …
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The Ohio Court of Appeals on Tuesday vacated a state Industrial Commission decision that found an employer didn’t violate certain safety requirements at the time of a fire extinguisher inspector’s death. Sharmel Culver obtained death benefits following the March 2016 death of her husband, Kenneth Ray Jr., an employee of TimkenSteel Corp., and later sought …
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The death of a 21-year-old worker at a golf cart manufacturing plant in Georgia that occurred following a mishap involving an earbud has gained the attention of workplace safety advocates, who are warning about the dangers associated with such devices. The woman died March 9 after becoming trapped in machinery at the Club Car LLC …
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The Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia on Monday reversed a decision that had found compensable a workers compensation claim filed by an injured medical transport driver. The appeals court said the Workers’ Compensation Board of Review wrongly overturned a claim administrator’s order denying a workers comp claim filed by the driver for Hometown …
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Lawmakers in Louisiana are considering a pair of bills that would dictate how employers and workers compensation insurers can deny and defend against claims. H.B. 764, introduced Monday, states that no defense asserting no compensability or causation of injury shall be permitted in any appeal if such defense “was not asserted at the first opportunity …
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed additional penalties on an Ohio rubber hose manufacturer that was cited after a worker suffered severe injuries in June 2023. OSHA said Monday it assessed an additional $321,489 in proposed penalties against Bellefontaine-based HBD/Thermoid Inc. The company was cited in December after the incident, in which …
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