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Workplace Injury Disability Disability Benefits

Marshall Dennehey

Act 111 is Not an Unconstitutional Special Law Regulating Labor, and an IRE Physician’s Evaluation is Competent to Support a...

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Stephen Conrad v. Department of Transportation (WCAB); No. 557 C.D. 2022; filed Feb. 26, 2024; Judge McCullough - The claimant underwent an Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) on September 20, 2011, following a July 5, 2005,...more

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New York Workers' Compensation Ruling Roundup - March 2024

On March 21, the 3rd Department delivered four new rulings. Learn more below. Kaminski v. Integrated Structures, CV-22-2295 (3rd Dept. 3/21/24) - The Appellate Division affirmed the Board’s decision to deny a carrier’s 2nd...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Salary Continuation or Temporary Total Compensation, which should I choose?

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​​​​​​​An employee is injured on the job and cannot immediately return to work. Whether to offer salary continuation or permit temporary total disability compensation to be paid under the workers’ compensation claim is a...more

Chartwell Law

An Additional 450 Weeks on Reopener Cases That Become Total Cases

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Previously, on a reopener of a permanent partial total disability case that turned into a permanent total disability case, there has always been a credit for the entire amount paid for the partial total award.  This leads to...more

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IMSS Anuncia Nuevos Servicios Digitales Para El Pago Y Consulta De Incapacidades

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Este mes de mayo, el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) anunció nuevas herramientas digitales que dan la posibilidad tanto al asegurado como a las empresas de consultar en línea el historial de las incapacidades...more

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Mexico: New Digital System Allows Verification of Disability Certifications Among Other Related Transactions

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Earlier this month, the Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS) announced new digital tools that enable both employers and insured employees to review records concerning the employees' disabilities certified by the IMSS,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Timing is Everything: Tenth Circuit Overturns Insurer’s Disability Decision as Arbitrary and Capricious

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Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir....more

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decision in Protz Marks Major Change in Workers’ Compensation Law

Prior to June 20, 2017, a powerful tool was available to employers and workers’ compensation carriers to cap exposure on long term workers’ compensation claims. That tool, provided by the Act 44 amendments in 1996, was...more

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