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ISSUES Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 4: October-December, 1999
(PDF File: 8 pages; 1.7MB; Last revised December 16, 1999)
Commission Welcomes John A. Mastropietro as Chairman
Seventh Consecutive Workers’ Compensation Insurance Premium Rate Reduction Approved
From the Desk of the Chairman: Memorandums
EDI: Electronic Commerce Initiative
Calculating Wage Differential Benefits for High Income Claimants
CRB UPDATE: Mental/Mental and Mental/Physical Injuries
Nominations for 1999 Safety & Health Awards Now Being Accepted
“Physician Defined
Defining the Employee & Employer
Principal Employer Liability
WCC Website Continues to Grow
ISSUES Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 3: July-September, 1999
(PDF File: 8 pages; 241K; Last revised September 14, 1999)
A Message from Chairman Frankl...On Choosing a Physician for Non-Managed Care & Managed Care Plans
From the Desk of the Chairman: Memorandums
New Benefit Rate Tables Available
Average Weekly Wage, maximum Compensation Rate, and Cost-of-Living Adjustments (including Calculation of Cost-of-Living Adjustments & COLA Tables)
Safety & Health Awards Presented
New Bulletins Now Available
ISSUES Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 2: April-June, 1999
(PDF File: 8 pages; 103K; Last revised June 17, 1999)
Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Plans Yield Savings
From the Desk of the Chairman: Memorandums
Pre-Certification and Authorization
CRB UPDATE: Constitutionality of the Re-Notice Requirement; In the Course of the Employment
Calculating Weekly Benefit Amounts without FICA and/or Medicare Deductions
Merchant Mariner Benefits: The Jones Act
ISSUES Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 1: January-March, 1999
(PDF File: 8 pages; 116K; Last revised June 16, 1999)
Ernie Ray Walker: A New Workers’ Compensation Commissioner
From the Desk of the Chairman: Memorandums
Commissioners Reappointed by General Assembly
Meet Our Newest Safety Program Officer
Safety Program Officers: Here to Help
CRB UPDATE: On the Issue of Unreasonable Delay
WATS UP!: What is required to get compensation payments started?
Workers’ Compensation & the State’s Family and Medical Leave Act
State of Connecticut Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Marines’ Fund
Workers’ Compensation Fraud Update
Preliminary Acts in Preparation for Work and Employee’s Place of Abode: an Explication