Workers' Compensation News
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KS Senate Bill Amending PD Out of Committee
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03/19/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Kansas Chamber says that the movement of Senate Bill 181 out of committee and to the full Senate will help curtail the cost of doing business in the state.The bill changes current law in an attempt to lessen the standards necessary to prove up apportionment to pre-existing disability by ...Read More
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Kemper Loses $312M, Focusing on Claims Service
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03/05/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Kemper Insurance Companies announced yesterday that it posted a year-end 2002 net loss of $312 million, compared with net income of $121 million in 2001. Year-end consolidated surplus fell to $1.0 billion, a reduction of approximately $475 million from Kemper's 2001 year-end surplus of $1.5 bill...Read More
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Kemper Suffers Another Rating Downgrade by Best
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03/04/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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Kemper's financial issues continue to haunt the company as A.M. Best Co. yesterday announced it has lowered the financial strength rating to B (Fair) from B+ (Very Good) of the participants in the Kemper Insurance Companies (Long Grove, IL) inter-company pool, 10 reinsured affiliates and one domesti...Read More
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Kings County Med Director Pleads Guilty to Fraud
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02/27/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Hanford Sentinel reported today that Charlotte Chapman, 53, the former chief executive officer of Kings Industrial Medical Center in Hanford, pleaded guilty to one felony count of insurance fraud Monday.The story did not report the allegations filed against Chapman, but Griffin Bailey, 4...Read More
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KY DWC Attorney Resigns After Story Breaks
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02/19/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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In a follow up story, Associated Press reports that a Kentucky Labor Cabinet lawyer, who reportedly testified in a deposition that he regularly worked only 90 minutes per day setting off an internal investigation, resigned last week. William Lawrence Huffman, an attorney in the Division of W...Read More
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KY DWC Attorneys Work Only Hour-Half/Day
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02/14/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Louisville Courier Journal reported that State Labor Cabinet officials were alarmed when an attorney in the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds said in a deposition that typically he works only 1 1/2 hours per day, and spends the rest of the time reading books. An internal investigat...Read More
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KY: Legion/Villanova Instructions Pending Orders
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02/13/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims, Office of the Commissioner, has issued a Bulletin to provide guidance to state Administrative Law Judges and attorneys representing claimants
and/or employers insured for workers' compensation coverage by either Legion
Insurance Company or Villanova Insu...Read More
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Kelleher New MN DLI Deputy Commissioner
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02/11/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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Robin Kelleher has been named the new Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) deputy commissioner. Kelleher joins DLI after working as an attorney with Seaton, Beck, Peters, Bowen & Feuss, P.A., a labor and employment law firm in Edina, Minn.
The Department of Labor and Industry's ...Read More
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KT DWC Warns Small Pox is Case by Case
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02/06/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims says that if a healthcare worker suffers a small pox vaccination related reaction and files a
contested claim, compensability under Kentucky's workers' compensation law
would have to be decided by an administrative law judge.Nevertheless, the depa...Read More
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KT DWC - Okay to Negotiate Fees Below Schedule
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02/06/2003
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State: Natl. | Segment: Top | 0
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The Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims has released a bulleting authorizing managed care companies to negotiate fees less than the Kentucky Medical Fee Schedule.Dated 9/18/02, but released on the Internet just days ago, the bulletin says:"It is an acceptable practice under our st...Read More
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