Showing posts with label reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reform. Show all posts
Monday, October 1, 2018

Rand Study Urges National Workers’ Compensation Reforms

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A national study by the Rand Corporation is urging changes to the workers’ compensation system. The study was commissioned by the US Nationa...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

A Deviation Off-Premises Bars Claim

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The “Coming and Going Rule” has always been a grey area in determining compensability in the workers’ compensation arena. A bucket full of ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Cries of High Costs and Fraud – Watch for Reforms

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Today’s post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Wright , Seattle, Washington.. There is always discussion, in every state, abou...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Made by a robot...driven by a computer

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The workers' compensation scheme is being challenged to potential extinction by the workplace in which it was created decades ago. Stre...
Friday, April 8, 2016

The Difficult Task of the Florida Supreme Court

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The Florida Supreme has before it a constitutional challenge once again concerning workers’ compensation. The scope of the controversy rema...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

California Workers' Compensation Reform: Is The System in a Ditch Now?

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California is the sentinel jurisdiction for innovative decisional law , theory and statutory changes in workers' compensation. As goes ...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Report Recommends Raising Workers' Compensation Premiums

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The California "too good to be true" reform effort, was just that, too good to be true. Rates are going up and benefits are goin...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Changes to California Insurance Don’t Help

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Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from www.lawyersandsettlements.com By Gordon Gibb   Fresno, CA : A California wom...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Liberty Mutual FIles Suit in NY To Stop Elimination of Reopener Fund

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An effort spearheaded by Liberty Mutual to thwart Governor Cuomo's effort to eliminate the NY State Insurance Fund's elimination. Th...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Workers compensation hike on California employers proposed

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The next wave of chronic problems for California's workers' compensation system is now emerging....increased costs. Despite over 3...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Oklahoma Opt-Out System is Bad Medicine for an Ill System

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The newly enacted Oklahoma "Opt-Out" workers' compensation system  has been urged by reformers as an effort to provide a more ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

NJ Governor Christie to Propose Workers' Compensation Reform

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The NJ Workers' Compensation system is in for a change. Governor Chris Christie of NJ is taking aim at reforming the NJ system. In the...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

The Hidden Cost of Jobs - Selling Fear

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At great economic cost to taxpayers, governmental entities have desperately attempted to save jobs during the economic depression of our gen...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Devil is in the Details California Style

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When Workers Compensation was adopted in the United States after the European model of a benefit system for injured workers in the early 19...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

California Takes an Austerity Axe to Workers Compensation

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Governor Jerry Brown (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Tonight the  California Legislature took an axe to its ailing workers' compens...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Workers' Compensation Medical Benefits are in Critical Condition

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Now that Barach Obama is a going to be at the helm of the US, greater attention is being focused on the need for a national health care sys...
Sunday, October 7, 2007

California: Did Workers' Comp Reform Go Too Far?

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Friday October 5, 2007 Did Workers' Comp Reform Go Too Far? By Alan J. Wax California employees have borne the entire brunt of the Gover...