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Compliance Corner: Changing Benefits in Georgia
Compliance Corner: Changing Benefits in Georgia

Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When it comes to making changes to benefits in the Peach State, several key rules apply. Here's how they break down. TTD to TPD To unilaterally convert an employee's income benefits […]
Overturning 40 Years of Precedent, SCOTUS Moves on from Chevron
Overturning 40 Years of Precedent, SCOTUS Moves on from Chevron

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As is usually the case, the U.S. Supreme Court has wrapped up its most recent term with a bang, and big SCOTUS-related headlines have been all over the place. In two […]
Spencer Webinar Series: Serving the Injured Worker as a Team
Spencer Webinar Series: Serving the Injured Worker as a Team

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SCOTUS Knocks Down Bankruptcy Plan that Kept Sacklers from Being Sued for OxyContin Deaths
SCOTUS Knocks Down Bankruptcy Plan that Kept Sacklers from Being Sued for OxyContin Deaths

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- For more than two decades the opioid crisis has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, among them some 247,000 died from prescription-opioid overdoses. The names Sackler and Purdue […]
Do You Know the Rule? Wash. Occupational Therapy
Do You Know the Rule? Wash. Occupational Therapy

Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When it comes to occupational therapy that is part of a worker's return-to-work efforts must conform to certain rules in the State of Washington. Here's a look at those rules. Reimbursement […]
Glossary Check: Ill. ‘Private Self Insurer,’ ‘Insolvent Self Insurer’
Glossary Check: Ill. ‘Private Self Insurer,’ ‘Insolvent Self Insurer’

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- What do "private self insurer" and "insolvent self insurer" mean in Illinois? Here's how the Land of Lincoln defines those terms: Private self-insurer. A private employer that has been authorized to […]
Do You Know the Rule? Wash. Physical Therapy
Do You Know the Rule? Wash. Physical Therapy

Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In the Evergreen State, physical therapy treatment will be reimbursed only when ordered by the worker's attending doctor and rendered by a licensed physical therapist, a physical therapist assistant serving under […]
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?

Wilmington, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you read our summary of Fowler v. Perdue Inc., No. 412, 2023 (Del. 06/24/24), you learned that the Delaware Supreme Court found a worker's case of COVID-19 didn't entitle him […]