
A federal appellate court in an unpublished decision upheld a grant of summary judgment dismissing a Colorado volunteer firefighter’s bad faith actions against the administrators
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The Division of Workers' Compensation proposed a maximum hourly rate of $500 for attorneys to prepare injured workers for a deposition and to represent them
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A divided Oregon Supreme Court held that workers' compensation benefits do not provide a constitutionally sufficient substitute remedy for purposes of a law that immunizes
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The California Supreme Court granted a petition to review an appellate court decision holding that utilization review and independent medical review must be used to
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An Arizona appeals court cited a decision that the California Supreme Court handed down during World War I in finding that a person working at
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A California appellate court, in a published decision, ruled that a freight broker owed no duty of care to the driver of a contractor carrier
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The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a determination that an injured worker was a regular employee of an employer that failed to provide workers’ compensation
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The Inmate Accident Compensation Act is the exclusive remedy for a man bitten by a dog while working in a Bureau of Prisons training program,
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A divided Ohio appellate court ruled that a company that sold its assets to a new owner was entitled to receive the workers’ compensation policy
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California's 6th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday said the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board acted outside its jurisdiction by granting an injured worker's petition for
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