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May 2016 bring you new goals and success.

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Washington State Employers - Updated on Workplace Safety

All employers in Washington were slatedto receive a new required Job Safety and Health poster in October from the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).

The mailing was prompted by a major change in what employers must report to L&I. Under the new requirement, employers must now report to L&I within 24 hours if a worker suffers an amputation or loss of an eye and is not admitted to the hospital. This is in addition to the existing requirement to report within eight hours any workplace fatality or inpatient hospitalization.

L&I changed the requirement so Washington would be in compliance with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Employers should discard their old Job Safety and Health poster and replace it with the new one dated 09-2015.

L&I requires employers to post three workplace posters. The other two were not changed, so employers don’t need to replace them if they have the current version.

The other two posters and valid dates are:

• Notice to Employees — If a Job Injury Occurs (valid date 12/2012) for employers who receive industrial insurance coverage through L&I; or Notice to Employees – Self-Insurance (valid date 12/2012) for self-insured businesses.
• Your Rights as a Worker in Washington State (valid dates 06/2013 or 12/2012).

L&I posters are always free and can be downloaded and printed at www.Lni.wa.gov/RequiredPosters. This link also contains information about other government posters and answers to questions about the required posters.

Read more: www.ReduceYourWorkersComp.com Washington State Employers to Be Updated on Workplace Safety http://blog.reduceyourworkerscomp.com/2015/12/washington-state-employers-to-be-updated-on-workplace-safety/#ixzz3vlUewy1g
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Colorado Governor Announces Boards Appointments - Workers Compensation

Denver, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) - Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Board appointments to the Special Funds Board for Workers' Compensation Self Insurers.

The Special Funds Board for Workers' Compensation Self Insurers distributes monies from the Workers' Compensation Special Self-Insured Fund to assure prompt and complete payments to members of self-insured companies who are delayed or declare bankruptcy or have insufficient reserves to cover a claim.

For terms expiring July 1, 2019:

• Jeffrey L. Green, ARM-P of Loveland, to serve as a manager or employee of self-insured employers in good standing, with knowledge of risk management and finance, appointed;
• Ondrea Marie Charles Matthews of Wheat Ridge, to serve as a manager or employee of self-insured employers in good standing, reappointed.

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Happy Thanksgiving from The Law Office of O'Toole & Sbarbaro, P.C.

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May you enjoy new memories with your family.

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Opt-Out Plans - Workers' Comp

Billy Doyle Walker loved working in the sky. He used to say he could see forever, perched high up communications towers as he applied fresh paint.

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Inside Corporate America's Plan to Ditch Workers' Comp 
One Texas lawyer is helping companies opt out of workers' compensation and write their own rules. What does it mean for injured workers?

Price Check: How Companies Value Body PartsBenefits for the same body part can differ dramatically depending on whom you work for. Look up compensation offered by companies like Costco, Home Depot and Wal-Mart in Texas.

Three years ago, working halfway up a 300-foot steel tower at the LBJ Ranch, the panoramic view included the rolling green hills and meadows of the Texas Hill Country. The tower was used by former President Lyndon B. Johnson to communicate with the White House.

Walker's wife, Krystle Meloy, was 23 then. She was home at the couple's apartment in New Braunfels, Texas, with their 4-month-old daughter, Kaylee, when several of Walker's co-workers unexpectedly knocked at the door.

"They just walked in very silent," Meloy recalls, tears forming in her eyes. "They said Billy fell and he's on his way to the morgue. And I said, 'What?'... I just fell. And we all just started crying."

What happened next to Meloy and Kaylee is indicative of an emerging trend in how workers and their families are compensated following workplace injuries or deaths. Nearly 1.5 million workers in Texas and Oklahoma do not receive state-mandated benefits under heavily regulated workers' compensation and are dependent instead on alternative, largely unregulated benefits plans controlled by employers.

State laws in both Oklahoma and Texas allow employers to opt out of workers' compensation and develop their own workplace injury plans. Those plans generally cover fewer injuries, cut off benefits payments sooner, control access to doctors and even impose mandatory settlements, according to an NPR and ProPublica investigation. In Oklahoma, we found that most plans blatantly violate the law, yet regulators say they are powerless to respond.

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Four benefits under workers’ comp.

Four benefits under workers’ comp.

As you know, there are four benefits in the workers’ compensation system: (1) lost

wage benefits which equal two-thirds of your average weekly wage before taxes; (2) 

medical benefits, including full payment of medical bills, prescription medicine, and 

physical therapy, including mileage reimbursement for all trips to and from these 

providers; (3) disfigurement benefits, in the event you have a scar; and, (4) permanent 

impairment benefits, if a permanent impairment is found.

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