Income benefits paid to workers through the workers’ compensation system replace a smaller fraction of lost income benefits than previously believed Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation... Read More

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and... Read More

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and... Read More

By Marcus A. Roland, Esq. UPS Airlines v. West, No. 2010-CA-001433-WC (Ky. App. 2011) : A benefit plan as identified under KRS 342.730(6) is not "exclusively employer funded" if it is the product of collective bargaining. In this... Read More

Effective October 1, 2008, the maximum and minimum weekly benefits rates will change. Such changes are in accordance with the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) Rate increasing to $749.63. The new benefit rates are effective through September 30, 2009.... Read More

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and... Read More

Claimant attorneys are currently arguing (and prevailing) that the carrier cannot recoup overpaid temporary income benefits from impairment income benefits even if the overpayment is not due to carrier error. The ambiguity comes from a change in Rule... Read More

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and... Read More

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and... Read More

For qualifying periods beginning on or after July 1, 2009, new supplemental income benefits (SIBs) rules are in effect. These new SIBs rules offer the first substantial change to the consideration and payment of supplemental income benefits since the... Read More

Review of Appeals Panel Decision No. 080809 Issue: Supplemental Income Benefits (SIBs); Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) The Appeals Panel holds, “There is no authority which supports the proposition that a Hearing... Read More