Workers' Compensation News
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Assembly Passes PBM Transparency Measure | 07/03/2023 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Jersey Assembly on Friday passed a bill setting new transparency standards for pharmacy benefit manager business practices. S...Read More | |||
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Alexandra Cohen Joins Goldberg Segalla Office in New York | 06/27/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Goldberg Segalla announced that Alexandra L. Cohen joined the firm’s workers’ compensation group in Manhattan. ...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court Says Pet Service App Not Employer, Doesn't Need Comp | 06/08/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An online platform that connects pet owners to people providing services such as dog walking or grooming and pockets a percentage of any payments as compensation for the matchmaking is not an employer required to pay for workers’ compensation insurance, an appellate court in Washington...Read More | |||
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Agency Owner Charged With Fraud | 06/02/2023 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The owner of an insurance agency was arraigned in connection with an alleged scheme to steal $39,000 in workers’ compensation premiums, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced. ...Read More | |||
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A Tale of Two Bills: Legislature Meets DWC Halfway on Recommendations | 06/01/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By Steve Nichols, News Contributor The Texas Legislature sent the governor a bill before adjourning the 2023 session to implement a Division of Workers’ Compensation recommendation to exempt designated doctor exams from state sales taxes. ...Read More | |||
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Assembly Passes Bill to Exempt UR Time From TD Cap, Expand PTSD Presumption | 05/30/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly passed bills that would exempt time spent disputing medical treatment issues from the aggregate cap on temporary disability benefits as well as a measure to create a post-traumatic stress disorder presumption for nurses at state hospitals. ...Read More | |||
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ADR Administrative Conferences to Use Teams Technology | 05/12/2023 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced that its Alternative Dispute Resolution unit will begin on Monday using the Microsoft Teams dial-in feature for administrative conferences. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney's Improper Contact With IME Warrants Sanctions | 05/09/2023 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld sanctions against an employer’s attorney for improperly contacting an independent medical evaluator to request a change in the doctor’s report. ...Read More | |||
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Accuro Acquires Splashlight Solutions | 05/03/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Medical bill review and payment manager Accuro Solutions announced the acquisition of national work comp bill review service provider Splashlight Solutions. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney's Procedural Flub Results in Denial of Review by Board | 05/02/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an attorney’s failure to include an electronic signature attestation with an application for review justified the denial of the effort. ...Read More | |||
