The New York Workers Compensation Board has announced a new initiative to measure the effectiveness …
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NY Workers Comp Issues
Medical Treatment Guidelines In NY Open New Role For Employers
Medical treatment of NY comp claims was virtually unlimited two decades ago, but that has changed. …
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Employers: In New York It Now Pays To Be A Nit-Picker
Until a decade ago, the NY comp board was all but insensate to many of the provisions of the …
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Why NY Workers Comp Proceedings Sooooo Slow”
New York comp claims, even the simplest ones, can take a shocking amount of time to work their way …
Stern Warning Issued For Misclassifying Truck Drivers as Independent Contractors
The NY Workers Comp Board, on 4/4/14, issued a bulletin warning employers that attempts to describe …
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Call For Change With NY Work Comp Facing $10 Billion in Death Claims
The highest court in NY recently upheld a long standing rule that death claims in comp are not …
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New York State Fund Is Not The Carrier You Want To Owe Money
New York State Fund Has More Power Than Any Carrier If a NY employer owes unpaid …
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3 Reasons New York Workers Comp Assessments Are Through the Roof
NY Fees over 18% An employer pays, in addition to the comp premium, an assessment for …
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New York Makes Strides with New Rules for Changing Hearing Point
Hearings Automatically Set for County in which Worker Resides The NY Work Comp Board …
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Smile, Your Facebook Post Can be Read by Millions
The Internet is Where Comp Claim Investigation Starts Perhaps your workers are …
New York Corporation Makes Hilarious Decision in Payment of Work Comp Premiums
Would you rather be hated or laughed at? A NY corporation chose the latter. J.M.R. …
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Crackdown on Workers Comp Fraud Leads to 18 Arrests
A recent crackdown on workers compensation fraud in New York State led to the arrests of 18 people …
Crackdown on Workers Comp Fraud Leads to 18 ArrestsRead More
Close Is Not Good Enough in OSHA Compliance
Injuries Require Multiple Government Forms When a compensable injury occurs, …
I Cannot Find a Workers Comp Doctor
The NY workers comp law permits the workers to select a treating doctor (who is licensed by the …
The Employer Is The Last To Know
When you are the only one paying in an expensive, complex problem, it helps greatly to know what is …
NY Employers Should Know About This Decision
This week, the NY Court of Appeals issued a major decision on RTW. It also issued a …
Highest Court Decision on NY Workers Comp Favors Employers
A decision issued this week, on 5/1/12, “Zamora v Neurologic Assn.”, has removed a presumption that …
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New York State Workers Compensation Board Moves to Electronic Employer Report of Injury System
The New York State Workers Compensation Board has announced that it will transition from a paper to …
Are Employers Paying for Presumptions or Reality
Employers who discover, too late, that the carrier/TPA will be paying a substantial amount for a …
How Employers SHOULD Communicate in NY Workers Comp
Employers and employees are the most important persons in a comp claim. The law does not treat them …
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