NWCDN Members regularly post articles and summary judgements in workers’ compensations law in your state.
Select a state from the dropdown menu below to scroll through the state specific archives for updates and opinions on various workers’ compensation laws in your state.
Contact information for NWCDN members is also located on the state specific links in the event you have additional questions or your company is seeking a workers’ compensation lawyer in your state.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “decision” as an authoritative
determination (as a decree or judgment) made after consideration of facts or
law. Each month, the Division posts to its website a comprehensive list of “decisions” made by the
Division’s Appeals Panel and lists them by date filed and issue
addressed. In December, you will find two such decisions on the issues of
SIBs-Permanent Loss of Entitlement and Extent of Injury. If you are
hoping to find any insight or guidance on either of those topics, alas, you
will have to look elsewhere. Further investigation will reveal those
decisions to be of the “affirmed as reformed” variety. In other words, the
ALJ made a typographical error that was corrected by the Appeals Panel and no
substantive change was made. In AP No. 231626, the Appeals Panel corrected the
name of the claimant’s county of residence and in AP No. 231546, the Appeals Panel corrected the
name of the carrier’s registered agent. Perhaps a separate column entitled
“clerical correction” or “oops I did it again” would save participants valuable
legal research time.
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