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Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide 1996 Olympic And Paralympic Volunteers With Workers' Compensation Coverage, Keith Porterfield
Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide 1996 Olympic And Paralympic Volunteers With Workers' Compensation Coverage, Keith Porterfield
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act provides that all persons who perform voluntary service for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games or for the Atlanta Paralympic Organizing Committee will be considered employees of the organization for the purpose of workers’ compensation coverage.
Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide Guidelines And Limits On Number Of Corporate Exemptions; Revise Provisions Relating To Subrogation; Create A Fraud And Compliance Unit; Provide Requirements Relating To Advertising; Revise Other Miscellaneous Aspects Of Workers' Compensation System, Kimberly A. Stout
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act amends several aspects of the workers’ compensation system. First, the Act makes several changes affecting legal action under the Workers’ Compensation Act, including changes affecting employer’s subrogation liens, the admissibility of certain evidence, and required mediation. Second, the Act attempts to eliminate fraud in the area of workers’ compensation by imposing heavier penalties and by establishing a fraud and compliance unit within the Workers’ Compensation Board. Furthermore, the Act includes the Workers’ Compensation Truth in Advertising Act of 1995 to assure truthful and adequate disclosure in all advertisements relating to workers’ compensation. Finally. the Act makes numerous miscellaneous …