Due to rapidly declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced Friday that it is making “substantive changes” to
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The California Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing April 26 to consider the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Sept. 1, 2022, regulatory filing.
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The California Workers’ Compensation Institute said wild fluctuations in COVID-19 claim volume continued into early 2022, soaring to an all-time high in January, then dropping
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California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Thursday announced it will distribute about $55 million in dividends to qualifying policyholders with policies in effect between Jan.
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The Cal/OSHA Standards Board will meet April 21 to consider changes to requirements for workplace first-aid kits under state Construction Safety and the General Industry Safety orders.
Proposed revisions will
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The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that a paying agency's right to share in settlement proceeds of a third-party action depends on it being a "paying agency"
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The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker failed to establish that his rotator cuff tear was caused, in major part, by
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Wages for former inmates will be calculated based on what’s paid to other people performing similar work in the labor market, under legislation enacted by
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Washington state lawmakers delivered to Gov. Jay Inslee a bill that would create a presumption that all workers exposed to hazardous waste at the Hanford
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A judge in Southern California approved a request to delay sentencing of Michael D. Drobot for violating terms of his 2014 plea deal to allow
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