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WSIA's 2020 Legislative Wrap-Up
Read MoreIt was a short but momentous legislative session with a couple major changes in the law that will reverberate. Here's a run-down of what happened in issues of concern to the workers' compensation and safety community.
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WSIA issues new preferred vendor RFP for hearing aids
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Court of Appeals publishes troubling Maphet decision
Read MoreJust in time for Halloween, Division II of the state Court of Appeals in Tacoma issued an order this week publishing a case first decided in August that has sent a scare throughout the self-insured employer community.
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Washington Supreme Court decision raises serious questions about finality of workers' comp adjudications
Read MoreWill Weaver go down as a one-off where the court willingly looked beyond things that may be "true in theory" in order to give a sympathetic claimant another shot at a pension, or will it fundamentally re-order workers' compensation practice, incentivizing scores of litigants to refile previously litigated claims, arguing they lacked sufficient economic motivation to pursue their appeal when it was "just" for time loss, or "just" for treatment (or so on), but now is for a much more valuable benefit like a pension?
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Over $73,000 raised to support Kids' Chance of Washington at Safeco Field gala
Read MoreNearly 200 WSIA members, colleagues, and folks from all facets of the workers' comp community in Washington turned out in force at Safeco Field last night for our "Field of Dreams II" gala to benefit Kids' Chance of Washington
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First look at the new self-insurance rules proposal
Read MoreEarlier this week, the Department of Labor & Industries published for public comment a series of proposed administrative rules that, taken together, form the first major attempt to modernize self-insurance regulations in decades.
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Court of Appeals holds for firefighter in peculiar comp decision
Read MoreIt's another case of sympathetic facts + liberal construction equals unpredictable law and unfavorable precedent.