Alabama Senate Advances Education Workers’ Comp Bill
- The Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee approved a bill to create a workplace injury program for teachers and others in education
- Teachers and other have to pay out of pocket for medical care if they are injured on the job and then request reimbursement from the state Board of Adjustment
- The bill would create the Public Education Employee Injury Compensation Board
- Covered workers include education employees in K-12 schools, bus drivers and community colleges
- The full Senate will consider the bill next
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WV Supreme Court Rules In Comp Case
- The West Virginia Supreme Court issued a decision affirming a Workers’ Compensation Office of Judges decision that upheld the actions of a claims administrator.
- The claims administrator had denied adding post-traumatic stress disorder as a compensable condition
- Denied a request for a second mental health evaluation
- Denied a second opinion on complex regional pain syndrome
- Denied authorization for continued PT
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- The Los Angeles County Fire Chief said the department’s firefighting efforts were hampered during the Eaton and Palisades fires by the number of firefighters out on workers’ comp.
- The Department has a staff of 5,023 employees and 399 were off on workers’ comp
- The Chief says the vacancies added to the department’s overtime costs
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PA Bill To Expand Disfigurement Benefits
- Pennsylvania’s House Labor and Industry Committee advanced a bill to expand access to workers’ compensation disfigurement benefits
- HB 183 would extend benefit duration from 275 weeks to 400 weeks
- Extend eligibility to all body parts
- Make disfigurement benefits payable with indemnity benefits
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