{"id":25467,"date":"2015-11-03T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/board-approves-changes-to-workers-comp-claims\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:01:19","slug":"board-approves-changes-to-workers-comp-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/board-approves-changes-to-workers-comp-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Board approves changes to workers&#8217; comp claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska Workers Compensation Board has approved Legislature-mandated changes to the fee schedule for workers filing compensation claims.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule lists how much money injured workers are entitled to if they are injured on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were approved Oct. 29 and announced Monday. In an email, the board stated that Alaska has had the highest workers\u2019 compensation rates in the nation, and the new schedule \u201cshould further reduce workers\u2019 compensation costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska Workers Compensation Board has approved Legislature-mandated changes to the fee schedule for workers filing compensation claims. The schedule lists how much money injured workers are entitled to if they are injured on the job. The changes were approved Oct. 29 and announced Monday. In an email, the board stated that Alaska has had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25467"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}