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"Addresses timely topics in workers' compensation, provides links to other blogs and informative legal websites, informs readers of upcoming seminars and conferences on relevant workers' compensation topics, and provides news feeds to workers' compensation issues both general and Kentucky-specific."

Author: Roland Niemi practices at Roland Niemi Law Group in Lexington, Ky.

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Recent Posts from Ouch!


  • OUCH! Has Moved

    OUCH! has moved to rolandlegal.wordpress.com.

  • DWC ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD MEMBER POSITION

    The Kentucky DWC announces that the Workers’ Compensation Nominating Commission is now accepting applications for one (1) position for Workers’ Compensation Board Member. The board position term will run January 4, 2010 through January 3,…

  • KEMI lowers rates — but so does everyone else

    Insurancejournal.com recently posted a boast by Kentucky Employers’ Insurance (KEMI), Kentucky’s “largest workers’ compensation insurer”, touting its 6% reduction in Kentucky workers’ compensation rates (See KEMI’s press release).  The reduction is not particularly indicative of…

  • LexisNexis Announces “Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Powered by Roland Niemi Law Group”

    LexisNexis has bestowed yet another honor on the Roland Niemi Law Group by announcing “Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Powered by Roland Niemi Law Group”, a state specific component of its Workers’ Compensation Law Center Top Cases.…

  • Ky. Mileage Reimbursement Rate for October through December 2009

    The mileage reimbursement rate beginning October 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009 is 41¢ per mile. The Controller’s website has been updated to reflect this change. Refer to the Controller’s web page for all related…

  • Settlements and Awards Equal Under KRS 342.730(3)

    From LexisNexis’ Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Powered by Roland Niemi Law Group Bell v. Consol of Kentucky, Inc., No. 2009-CA-000673-WC (Ky. App. 2009) (designated to be published). Claimant Bell entered into a settlement for benefits to…

  • New Pain not Necessarily a New Medical Condition says Ranger Contracting v. Morley

    From LexisNexis’ Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Powered by Roland Niemi Law Group In Ranger Contracting v. Morley, No. 2008-CA-0010307-WC (Ky. App. 2009) (designated to be published) the claimant had originally settled his claim stemming from a work-related…

  • Miller and Swisher appointed as new ALJs

    Governor Beshear has appointed  Robert L. Swisher and Jeanie Owen Miller administrative law judges in the Department of Workers’ Claims. Swisher, who replaces ALJ Donna Terry, is a partner with the Northern Kentucky based workers’…

  • When is nonwork-related treatment work-related?

    The Associated Press recently reported on an Indiana workers’ compensation case, Boston’s Gourmet Pizza v. Childers,  where an employer was ordered to pay for lap band surgery for an overweight employee who injured his back…

  • KY Workers’ Comp Costs Decrease

    FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 26, 2009) – An annual filing most insurance carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ compensation coverage shows the fourth consecutive decrease in loss costs, Department of Insurance Commissioner Sharon P.…