Workers Comp

As the holiday shopping season approaches, retail workers are concerned about their personal safety given a recent increase in workplace incidents, according to the Retail Worker Safety Report released Monday by Motorola Solutions. The report, which came from a November survey of more than 1,000 retail store associates and managers, showed that one in four …

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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday that it cited Cincinnati-based Zwanenberg Food Group USA following a temporary worker’s amputation injury in June. The food processing company was cited for two repeat violations and issued $242,197 in proposed penalties after the kitchen worker, who had been on the job for seven months, had …

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Eighty percent of all workers compensation claims filed in Pennsylvania between 2018 and 2020 included at least one office and physical medicine visit, and upper extremity injuries constituted the greatest number of doctor visits, according to a report released Monday by the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau. Workers comp claims in which claimants needed at least …

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The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said Thursday it charged a doctor with 40 insurance fraud violations after he filed liens with the state’s Division of Workers Compensation asking for payment of bills that had already been paid in full or in part. Dr. Gary Martinovsky, along with his assistant and mother-in-law, Raisa Rikoshinsky, were …

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U.S. commercial insurance prices increased by an average of 6.1% in the third quarter, matching the second quarter, with commercial property and excess/umbrella liability lines seeing double-digit rate increases, Willis Towers Watson PLC said in a report released Monday. Commercial property saw the greatest rate increase, with a double-digit surge, though at a slightly lower …

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A Pennsylvania appeals court Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss an injured concrete worker’s lawsuit against a construction company and its owner. The Pennsylvania Superior Court said the trial court wrongly granted summary judgment to Pittsburgh-based Gaydos Construction & Asphalt Paving Co. and its owner, George Gaydos, in a lawsuit brought by John …

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Health care workers who had the highest risk of COVID-19 exposure during the height of the pandemic were also the most likely to self-report nonadherence to infection prevention measures, according to a study published Thursday in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers, analyzing survey responses from 191 health care workers at the University of …

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New York lawmakers Wednesday introduced a bill that would allow survivors of those whose COVID-19 deaths were connected to work to refile workers compensation death benefits claims that were previously denied due to timing. S.B. 7792, which was sent to the Senate Rules Committee, would allow the reopening of claims that were denied because they …

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Missouri lawmakers will consider a bill that would add marijuana to existing law that reduces or eliminates workers compensation eligibility for injured workers who are found to be under the influence of alcohol or nonprescribed controlled drugs. S.B. 935, pre-filed on Dec. 1 in preparation for the 2024 legislative season, would amend current law that …

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