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That strange odor you may smell from the general direction of Sacramento is a deal cooking on increasing permanent disability benefits. Consistent with the way workers’ compensation issues have been …
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News Digest 3/12/2007
CRM Holdings Announces Fourth-Quarter Profit Jump Bermuda-based workers’ compensation benefits manager CRM Holdings Ltd., which does business in New York, Texas and increasingly in California, announces that its fourth-quarter 2006 …
News Digest 2/5/2007
Wisconsin Supreme Court Allows Stacking of Benefits The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules 4-3 that workers who undergo two surgeries for the same knee injury can earn double the amount of …
PD Report To Pave Way For New Legislation
A highly detailed analysis of benefits that permanently disabled workers in California receive – due out any minute –likely will set the stage for a new batch of cleanup legislation for the session. The study is expected to help guide state lawmakers as they try to solve issues that have erupted from the recent reform …
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Foreign Dependents Granted Death Benefits
The Tennessee Supreme Court last week ruled that foreign dependents of workers killed on the job are eligible to receive death benefits. The parents of a Mexican worker killed at a Nashville construction site pursued death benefits on grounds that he had been supporting them by wiring them funds regularly. But the employer challenged the …
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News Digest 1/23/2007
What Price Glory? The 1981 49ers Benefits Battle The NFL Players Association has improved long-term benefits for its members in the past 25 years, but that’s not much help to …
News Digest 1/11/2007
Death Benefits Conundrum Is it unconstitutional to award death benefits to non-dependent heirs, or will there be litigation on the subject. What is the applicants’ attorneys payoff? Premium subscribers can …
News Digest 10/12/2006
Financial Benefits to Employers of Return-to-Work Programs According to a recent study by the California Workers Compensation Institute, 97 percent of injured employees who receive temporary disability benefits get two-thirds …