News Digest 2/2/2007
Overhaul Aids Return-to-Work: Study Moderately injured workers return to work faster since the 2004 overhaul of California’s workers’ compensation insurance system, according to a new state study dealing with a …
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News Digest 1/17/2007
Washington Groups Eye Possible Vocational Rehab Changes Providers of vocational rehabilitation services to injured workers are watching developments that could change the way they do business and boost worker retraining …
News Digest 1/16/2007
Salt Lake Must Pay Off-Duty Officer The Utah Supreme Court rules that Salt Lake City must pay workers’ compensation to an off-duty police officer who was injured in a car …
News Digest 11/14/2006
Injured Worker Describes His Ordeal In his anguished letter to the editor, a Vacaville man living in the bureaucratic hell of the California workers’ compensation system says he is an …
GAF Scale Likely Culprit In Rise Of Psychological Claims
SAN FRANCISCO – Thanks to its subjective approach to psychological injuries, a scale implemented in 2005 that measures an injured worker’s mental ability to work is boosting benefits payments. David Freeman, clinical director for Comprehensive Psychological Services, a firm that does Qualified Medical Evaluator reports for psychiatric cases, says it is a liberal scale. California’s …
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News Digest 10/17/2006
Mold Claim Not Barred by Workers’ Comp Exclusivity An injured worker can go forward with a lawsuit alleging that Costco Wholesale Corp. fraudulently concealed information about the presence of toxic …
News Digest 9/18/2006
Injured Illegal Aliens Frequently Exploited and Taxpayers Pay for It Thousands of illegal workers like Jose Hernandez, who lost his leg when he was slashed by a helicopter rotor blade …
Injured Workers To Protest Nurse’s Workplace Violence Hearing
The Auburn courthouse in Placer County will be the site of a protest by injured workers on Monday, Sept. 11, 2006 in connection with a workplace violence hearing involving nurse Barb Clark. Clark, a spinal surgery patient, was served earlier this summer with eight workplace violence restraining orders as she entered the California Fraud Assessment …
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