The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday announced that it extended by 60 days the comment period for a proposal to revoke Arizona’s authorization to
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The Illinois Appellate Court upheld a finding that an insurance carrier did not have a duty to defend or indemnify an electrical equipment service contractor
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The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals said the state’s work comp subrogation statute is constitutional and a carrier was entitled to reimbursement from an injured
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Fiscal committees in both chambers of the California Legislature will hold hearings on a handful of workers’ compensation bills Wednesday and Thursday, including a measure
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If the volume of independent medical review decision letters issued through the first half of 2022 holds for the rest of the year, determinations on
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A federal appellate court upheld an award of damages to a novice longshoreman who suffered the traumatic amputation of three fingers after just 10 days
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Act does not authorize an order for an employer to pay an injured worker for
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The Michigan Supreme Court issued four separate opinions regarding an opioid-dependent worker’s eligibility for benefits, with a majority concluding the record was “too incomplete to facilitate
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that utilization review determinations can't be used to establish the causal relationship between a treatment and a work injury,
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The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits from the Second Injury Fund for a worker who presented equivocal, but uncontroverted, evidence about whether
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