NY Okays WC Patient Treatment by Residents, Fellows
- The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has announced that effective immediately, physicians who are training in residency and fellowship programs accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) are permitted to treat injured workers in New York State under the appropriate supervision of faculty physicians.
- This follows changes enacted in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s FY2026 budget signed into law earlier this month.
- There are some 20,000 resident and fellow physicians, participating in more than 1,400 training programs across New York State.
- Other administrative changes made affecting the state’s workers’ comp system including boosting reimbursements and allowing pre-liability payments, which could streamline claims administration, reduce delays, and improve outcomes.
Georgia Becomes Second State to Shield Bayer Roundup Cancer Claims
- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation to shield pesticide manufacturers from some lawsuits claiming that they failed to warn customers of potential dangers.
- The new law signed Friday will protect Bayer from lawsuits, including many from landscapers and groundskeepers, claiming that it failed to tell customers that its popular weed killer Roundup could cause cancer.
- It’s written broadly enough to provide legal protection in Georgia to any pesticide manufacturer that follows federal labeling requirements.
- North Dakota last month enacted a similar measure.
- More than 67,000 of a total 181,000 claims involving Roundup remain outstanding nationwide, most of which allege that Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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