Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. US Sup Ct to Decide Whether to Hear Seaman Case Under Jones Act . $3.5B Financial...
Contrast the Minnesota decision noted above with that involving an injured District of Columbia employee who, following a work-related injury, received disability benefits under the Workers' Compensation Act (WCA), D.C. Code § 32-1501 et seq. as well as short...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. CDC Publishes National Action Plan for Infertility, Workplace Exposures . CDC Urges...
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A District of Columbia appellate court has affirmed an ALJ’s finding that a claimant did not voluntarily limit her income and was entitled to continue receiving TTD payments related to a work-related injury in spite of the fact that she had been medically cleared...
The D.C. Court of Appeals recently held that the district’s Compensation Review Board erred in directing an ALJ to disregard a housing allowance that an employer was contractually obligated to pay an employee when calculating the employee’s average weekly wage...
The D.C. Court of Appeals recently held that the District’s Compensation Review Board erred in vacating an ALJ's award of TTD on the ground that an employee had not timely notified the employer of his injury. Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , and...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS: Obamacare’s Positive Impact on Workers Comp Fraud...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS: Senate Confirms Thomas Perez as Secretary of Labor ...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS: Workers Compensation Analysis Group Reaches 20,000...