News Digest 9/8/2008
Arizona Appeals Court Rejects Attendant Care Claim The Arizona Court of Appeals rules that workers’ compensation insurance does not have to reimburse spouses of injured workers for special care they …
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Two Steps Backward?
Could moving California’s workers’ comp appeals board system fully into the information age actually force providers and carriers back into a paper-based system? That was the fear expressed by many in the system at a recent hearing by the Assembly Insurance Committee to investigate the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s new $36 million Electronic Adjudicatory Management …
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Committee Approves Brass, Cuneo Appointments
In spite of decisions that created rumblings that the governor’s reappointment of Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board commissioners James Cuneo and Frank Brass would face challenges when they came before the Senate Rules Committee for confirmation, no opposition emerged when that day arrived. The two commissioners were reconfirmed. Former Sen. John Burton presented Cuneo and Brass …
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News Digest 4/17/2008
Audit: ‘Climate of Fear’ Afflicts Agency That Handles BWC Appeals The Buckeye State’s troubled workers’ comp system is back in the news after an outside audit finds a “climate of …
News Digest 3/3/2008
Arizona Appeals Court Rules on False Statements Lying to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits has a price under Arizona law, but not necessarily loss of all benefits, according to the …
News Digest 1/21/2008
Fifth Circuit Rules for Lockheed in Workplace Shooting Case The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the dismissal of claims by 27 plaintiffs who sued Lockheed Martin for damages …
News Digest 1/17/2008
State Appeals Court Rules Against Hollywood Grip The exclusive remedy of workers’ compensation bars a Hollywood grip, who lost two fingertips while working on a television show in 2003, from …
News Digest 11/8/2007
State Fund’s “Silent PPO” Ploy Rejected A Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Panel rejects a common practice State Fund has employed that’s forced hospitals to use PPO rates even though they …