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 …
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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 …
News Digest 9/27/2006
Tragic End to Workers’ Comp Story When her workers’ comp benefits for a back injury ended but the pain did not, former legal writer and teacher Maria King turned to …
SB 815 Heads To Governor’s Desk
Working into the evening, the California Senate approved by 23 to 14 SB 815, a bill doubling permanent disability benefits to injured workers by 2009. Little or no thought is given to the costs imposed on the system by this huge benefits increase. And successful litigation by the applicants’ attorneys will increase the costs even …
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