Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Back in 2020, California voters enacted Proposition 22, which went on to become Business and Professions Code Section 7451. That law turned back a previous legislative act in the Golden State […]

Compliance Corner Catonsville, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Like many states, Maryland has rules in place for when an employer fails to secure compensation for all covered employees. As detailed on Simply Research, those rules are as […]

Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The term "ineffective assistance of counsel" most often refers to criminal defendants' Constitutional rights and what arguments they have at their disposal following a less-than-desirable outcome in the guilty-or-not phase of […]

Glossary Check Elizabethtown, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Let's say you find yourself in the Bluegrass State and someone needs to know, for workers' compensation purposes, what an injury is and what an occupational disease is. If […]

Compliance Corner Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Under California law, anyone aggrieved directly or indirectly by any final order, decision, or award made and filed by the appeals board or a workers' compensation judge may petition […]

What Do You Think? Sandy, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) – Is a spouse entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits if, prior to the employee’s death, the couple separated and were living apart? Under Oregon law, is there a […]

Powered by Simply Research Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A recent case from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered a question regarding how physicians should come to impairment rating evaluations. Writing an "opinion in support of reversal," […]

On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court of Mississippi, in American Compensation Insurance Co. v. Ruiz, ruled that the Mississippi Workers' Compensation Act does not allow an insurer to rescind a workers compensation (WC) policy from […]