Workers' Compensation News
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C&R Committee Meets Oct. 13 | 10/02/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Classification and Rating Committee will discuss during an Oct. 13 meeting the maximum and minimum reportable payrolls for executive officers and whether it’s appropriate to adjust the final premium amount that su...Read More | |||
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Carrier That Waited Too Long to Intervene Can't Get Settlement Set Aside | 10/02/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that an insurance carrier could not move to set aside a worker’s settlement with a third-party tortfeasor without first successfully intervening in the action and that it waited too long to file its request to do so. ...Read More | |||
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Contractor Charged With Premium Fraud on Dissolved Company's Comp Coverage | 10/02/2020 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Florida authorities have charged a 71-year-old construction company owner with premium fraud after he allegedly underreported payroll by more than $1 million. ...Read More | |||
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Company Facing Fraud Allegations Charged With Illegally Selling ACA Hardship Waivers | 10/01/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Clovis-based company accused of offering bogus workers’ compensation coverage has no...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Hairdresser's Claim for Mesothelioma | 10/01/2020 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals revived a hairdresser's claim for benefits for his mesothelioma from his exposure to asbestos in the hair dryers he had used over the course of his career. ...Read More | |||
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CLARA Announces Appointment of Two Directors | 10/01/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| CLARA analytics, a provider of artificial intelligence technology in the commercial insurance industry, announced the appointments of Andrew Pinkes and Dave Hollander to its board of directors. ...Read More | |||
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Comp Insurers Agree to Settle Doctors' Class Action for $10 Million | 09/30/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| After three years in federal court in Illinois, a class action lawsuit alleging insurers engaged in a long-running practice to delay medical bills and avoid paying interest on them has resulted in a settlement agreement. ...Read More | |||
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Claimants' Firm Says No Quid Pro Quo in Alleged Kickback Scheme With Pharmacy | 09/29/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: MA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| What began with an investigation into a nationwide mail-order pharmacy's opioid dispensing practices has led to kickback allegations against one of the largest workers' compensation claimants' firms in Massachusetts. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Citation Against Ag Employer | 09/29/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a citation against an agricultural employer for failing to protect a worker from touching a nip point on a conveyor belt, but it overturned the penalty imposed. ...Read More | |||
| COVID is 'Here to Stay,' Say Doctors At WCRI Event | 09/25/2020 | ||
| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two Ohio physicians who have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic gave a glimpse Thursday into how treatment of the disease has evolved and offered advice on how employers should be handling it. ...Read More | |||
