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Missouri regulators recommend increase in workers’ comp rates for 2021
The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance is recommending a 1.0 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2021, the first time in six years average workers’ compensation rates will increase. EIN
Alabama appeals court reverses award of workers’ comp to family of slain city employee
The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals late last week held that a lower court erroneously determined the city of Birmingham was required to pay benefits to relatives of a city employee who was shot to death while cutting grass for the city’s horticulture department in 2017. The appeals court ruled the lower court incorrectly approved workers’ compensation since there were unanswered questions about who killed the employee and why. WVTM
New York attorney discusses COVID-19 workers’ comp claims
A new aspect of workers compensation has emerged amid a global pandemic: contracting COVID-19 while on the job, according to Watertown, New York attorney William W. Crossett IV, who says he began preparing to litigate COVID-19 as a workers’ compensation claim as soon as the first human tested positive. NNY360
Former employees sue trucking giant for chemical exposure injuries
Three former employees of international trucking giant Trimac Transportation were left with debilitating injuries after years of exposure to an array of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, according to a new lawsuit naming the company and more than a dozen of its clients. Law.com [may require registration]