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Kentucky Chamber plans workers' compensation seminar (Business First of Louisville)
The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will hold its 18th annual Kentucky Workers Compensation Seminar at the Galt House Hotel and Suites in Louisville on Tuesday, Aug. 19, and the Hyatt Regency Lexington on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

NIKKO ELECTRONICS FACES COURT ACTION OVER FAILURE TO PAY COMPENSATION (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 (Bernama) -- The Human Resource Ministry will take legal action against Nikko Electronics Bhd, operating in Perai, Penang, if it fails to pay compensation to its 1,000 workers who were retrenched without any notice. Its minister, Datuk Dr S Subramaniam said the company, which suddenly shut down after operating for 19 years, had been given two months to to ...

City must bend on workers (Belleville Intelligencer)
City Hall and its unionized employees are heading for a showdown and one of the hot button issues is contract workers. Contract workers are the third rail of municipal politics and will continue to be for a long time. The problem is the issue is one that neither [...]

N.D. Surpreme Court Revives Workers' Comp Charges Against Former Director (Insurance Journal)
North Dakota's Supreme Court revived two felony charges on June 30 against a former state workers' compensation director, saying prosecutors may put him on trial for allegedly misspending more than $1

More Sources for Workers' Compensation (WHSV Harrisonburg)
More than 160 companies can begin offering workers' compensation insurance in West Virginia on Tuesday.

BrickStreet Mutual Loses Exclusivity to Workers' Compensation (The Inter-Mountain)
The president and chief executive officer of BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. Gregory A. Burton officially acknowledged Monday that his company would no longer have exclusivity to the West Virginia workers' compensation market starting today, when the market opens to other companies.

West Virginia Workers' Compensation Market Opens to Competition (Insurance Journal)
All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, can for the first time, shop their workers' compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market. Insurance Commissioner

Louisiana Workers' Compensation group launches website (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation has created a website to advise employers and employees about workplace safety issues. The site, www.saferplacetowork.com , includes 39 different safety topics on subjects such as driving safety, lifting safety, how to prevent of slips and falls and advice on how to create a workplace safety program.

Oklahomans now eligible for emergency unemployment compensation (Altus Times)
OKLAHOMA CITY - Jobless workers in Oklahoma who have exhausted their state unemployment benefits can now apply for an extra 13 weeks of emergency unemployment compensation. This unemployment benefit extension will run through March 2009 and follows on the heels of May's 0.5 percent jump in the national unemployment rate, the rate's largest one-month increase since 1986.

W.Va. opens workers' compensation insurance market (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
More than 160 companies can begin offering workers' compensation insurance in West Virginia on Tuesday. BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. has been the sole provider of workers' compensation insurance since the Legislature abolished the state Workers' Compensation Commission.