Non-fatal injuries in the West Virginia logging industry: Using workers' compensation claims to assess risk from 1995 through 2001

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 502-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Bell ◽  
James C. Helmkamp
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
The West ◽  
Logging Industry ◽  
Compensation Claims ◽  
Fatal Injuries

Evaluation of the burden of logging injuries using West Virginia workers' compensation claims data from 1996 to 2001

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 1039-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscah Mujuru ◽  
Lisa Singla ◽  
James Helmkamp ◽  
Jennifer Bell ◽  
Wen Hu
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Claims Data ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Compensation Claims

A comparison of owner/operator and worker perspectives on workplace safety in the West Virginia logging industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric W. Lundstrom ◽  
Douglas J. Myers ◽  
Wayne J. Lundstrom ◽  
Kimberly J. Rauscher ◽  
Mark Fullen
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The West ◽  
Logging Industry

Medical and Legal Issues Raised by the Protz Decision Issued by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
LuAnn Haley ◽  
Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Compensation Claims ◽  
Recent Edition ◽  
Impairment Ratings ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Pennsylvania adopted the impairment rating provisions described in the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) in 1996 as an exposure cap for employers seeking predictability and cost control in workers’ compensation claims. In 2017, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania handed down the Protz decision, which held that requiring physicians to apply the methodology set forth in the most recent edition of the AMA Guides reflected an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the American Medical Association. The decision eliminates the impairment-rating evaluation (IRE) mechanism under which claimants were assigned an impairment rating under the most recent edition of the AMA Guides. The AMA Guides periodically are revised to include the most recent scientific evidence regarding impairment ratings, and the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, acknowledges that impairment is a complex concept that is not yet defined in a way that readily permits an evidence-based definition of assessment. The AMA Guides should not be considered standards frozen in time simply to withstand future scrutiny by the courts; instead, workers’ compensation acts could state that when a new edition of the AMA Guides is published, the legislature shall review and consider adopting the new edition. It appears unlikely that the Protz decision will be followed in other jurisdictions: Challenges to using the AMA Guides in assessing workers’ compensation claims have been attempted in three states, and all attempts failed.

scholarly journals Modeling study of deep direct use geothermal on the West Virginia university campus-morgantown, WV

Geothermics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 101848
Author(s):  
Yingqi Zhang ◽  
Nagasree Garapati ◽  
Christine Doughty ◽  
Pierre Jeanne
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
University Campus ◽  
West Virginia University ◽  
The West ◽  
Direct Use ◽  
Modeling Study

“Make the West Virginia Market Lamb Supreme”

1931 ◽  
Vol 1931 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benj. F. Creech
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
The West

White-Winged Crossbills and Sitka Crossbills Summering in the West Virginia Spruce Belt

The Auk ◽  
1942 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Brooks ◽  
William A. Lunk
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
The West
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