NCCI Posts Latest Economic Outlook and Impact on Workers Comp . Fitch Ratings Announces Top Workers Comp Insurance Writers for 2014 . OSHA Issues Inspection Guidance for Health Care Industry . Columnist: New Worker Category Should Be Created to Cover Gig...
Following the pattern of a number of states, Mississippi allows sole proprietors, partners in a partnership, or owners of 15 percent or more of a corporation to elect to be exempt from the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act if the partner, owner, or proprietor delivers...
A Mississippi appellate court affirmed an order of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission requiring an employer to pay for medical treatment related to a kidney condition caused by medication that an employee took for an admittedly compensable...
A truck driver’s contract of employment was not made in North Carolina where he was required to complete a three-day orientation, a road test, a drug test, and a physical exam in Mississippi—a hiring procedure that extended well beyond mostly administrative...
A Mississippi appellate court held that the requirement that an employee exhaust his or her administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit for bad faith refusal to pay for disputed medical services and supplies merely ensured that the state’s Workers’...
Substantial evidence supported the Commission’s finding that injuries sustained by a Mississippi casino employee when her car struck a 400-lb. wild hog arose out of and in the course of her employment, held a Mississippi appellate court. The “collision” took place...
Substantial evidence supported the Commission’s finding that an injured worker was an employee, and not an independent contractor, where evidence suggested the worker, a car detailer, was required to work exclusively for the purported employer, was instructed to...
Obama’s Budget Proposal Mandates Reporting of Workers Comp Benefits to SSA . ProPublica Comments on OSHA Study of Inequality, Lack of Workplace Safety . The Atlantic: Workers Comp Policy “Doesn’t Really Seem to Involve You Until It Does”...
NIOSH Examines Link Between Firefighting and Cancer . Expert Provides Guidance on FLSA From Worker Perspective . AL: Labor Dept. Explains New OSHA Reporting Requirements Eff. Jan. 1 . AL: Injuries Sustained While Seeking Medical Treatment for Earlier Injury...
Noting that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the choice-of-law rules of the state in which it sits—here that of Mississippi—a federal district court held that an injured employee of a subcontractor could not sue the general contractor on a construction...
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. WCRI Study Compares Medical Costs for Injured Workers in 16 States . Investigation...
In a split decision, a Mississippi appellate court has affirmed a finding by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission that an employee’s claim was not barred by the going and coming rule since the accident fell within the employer-sponsored-travel exception...
A Mississippi appellate court affirmed a finding by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission that a truck driver’s intoxication proximately caused his injuries and, thereby, disqualified him from receiving benefits. The driver exited his truck, fell, and was...
In a split decision, the Court of Appeals of Mississippi held that the survivors of a business executive could pursue their claim for death benefits under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act in spite of the fact that the deceased, the managing partner and president...
Evidence that an electrical line worker was under investigation for murder, that law enforcement officials had obtained a DNA sample from him a few days earlier, that he was not “acting as jovial as usual on the day of the accident,” that several witnesses heard...