Here are the third and fourth batches of advanced postings for July 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2015 LexisNexis. All rights reserved...
Karen C. Yotis, Esq., a Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers’ comp world. How risky would it be if your mailroom employees used...
Significant percentage of medical care procedures is unnecessary Much has been written about the explosion of health care costs in the workers’ compensation system. Indeed, most experts agree that medical care expenses now represent more than 60 cents out of...
Karen C. Yotis, Esq., a Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers’ comp world. Firefighters are a breed apart. From the 9/11 first...
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 80 No. 4 April 2015 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ©...
Here’s the fourth batch of advanced postings for April 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2015 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. ...
A New York appellate court affirmed a finding by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that the deceased employee’s ureteral cancer was causally connected to his employment exposure to a chemical, orthotoluidine. While the chemical is known to cause bladder...
Earlier this year, myMatrixx, a company specializing in pharmacy and ancillary services for workers’ compensation programs, forecast in a Webinar broadcast that drug treatment costs in these programs are poised to rise exponentially. Their projected acceleration...
Construing a statutory provision that describes how an injured employee’s average weekly wage should be computed, a North Carolina appellate has affirmed a determination by the state’s Industrial Commission that based an award of death benefits on the wages the...
Continuing a line of controversial decisions in which the survivors of a deceased employee are allowed to recover not only statutory death benefits following the death of the employee from work-related injuries or occupational diseases, but also scheduled loss...
In order to establish an occupational disease or injury claim, a North Carolina claimant is not required to prove that he or she was exposed to a specific quantity of a harmful agent. A North Carolina appellate court reiterated the rule, however, that the claimant...
It is axiomatic that firefighting is a hazardous occupation. But should the more insidious risk of developing cancer be added to list of more obvious hazards faced? Building on previous research that seems to point in this direction, a recent study, Mortality and...
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers’ compensation. At the core of the American system of workers’ compensation...
Medical experts need not be shown to be experts in the narrow field that a party contends is relevant to the issue in the case—here whether the deceased former employee’s esophageal cancer resulted from asbestos exposure—it was sufficient that the experts were...
The Court of Appeals of New York recently affirmed a lower court’s decision that awarded full death benefits to an employee’s widow where expert medical evidence indicated that the employee’s death had been caused 80 percent by thyroid cancer and 20 percent by...