Workers' Compensation News
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Rollback of 2012 Reforms Passes Senate En Route to LePage
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07/01/2013
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State: ME | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The Maine Senate on Thursday cast a final vote to pass legislation that will roll back a key portion of a workers' compensation reform package adopted in 2012 and will change the job-search requirements for workers on partial disability.The Senate voted 19-16 on Thursday to pass Legi...Read More
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Reinsurance Broker Guy Carpenter Starts Mutual Insurance Practice
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06/25/2013
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has launched a new specialty practice to focus exclusively on mutual insurance companies.The new mutual company specialty practice will consist of a team of professionals dedicated to helping mutual company clients protect their capital and grow profitabl...Read More
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RBRVS Regs Would Increase Provider Pay 19.6%
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06/24/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefThe proposed conversion of California's physician fee schedule to Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale will increase physician fees by more than $200 million in the nex...Read More
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Report: Retailers Experiencing More Musculoskeletal Claims
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06/19/2013
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State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By John P. Kamin, ReporterThe rate of work-related musculoskeletal disorders decreased 39% among Ohio wholesalers and retailers from 2005 through 2009, but furniture stores, alcohol wholesalers, grocers, miners and auto p...Read More
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Rollback of 2012 Reforms Up for Final Vote in House and Senate
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06/18/2013
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State: ME | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefLegislation that would roll back a key workers' compensation reform passed by state lawmakers last year has cleared preliminary votes in the Maine House of Representatives and Senat...Read More
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Report on Shadow Insurance Casts Unflattering Light on Captives
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06/17/2013
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By David Dankwa, Senior ReporterA critical report released this week on so-called shadow insurance transactions has cast an unflattering light on the captive insurance industry as a whole.Although New York-based life insurance companies were the primary target of the 11-month...Read More
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Regulators Can Improve Approach to Opioids, IAIABC Suggests
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06/13/2013
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By John P. Kamin, ReporterRegulators seeking to stem the increase in opioid-related abuse should consider mandating use of prescription drug-monitoring programs, modifying treatment guidelines, increasing physicians' ...Read More
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Regulators Hope to Launch Check-Cashing Database in 2014
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06/13/2013
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State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Florida Office of Financial Regulation is working to launch by the end of 2014 a new database designed to identify construction subcontractors who are skirting workers' compensa...Read More
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Railway Could not Withhold Taxes from Worker's FELA Award
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06/13/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MO | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A railway that withheld a portion of the $345,000 award a jury issued to an injured employee on his Federal Employers' Liability Act claim to cover the employee's alleged tax liabilities under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act failed to satisfy the judgment against it in full....Read More
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Report: Gov. Kasich Did Not Use Rebate for Fundraising
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06/10/2013
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State: OH | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A state representative is drawing fire for sending out an email calling Gov. John Kasich's $1 billion workers' compensation rebate proposal a "fundraising pitch to cash in." State Rep. Tom Letson, D-Warren, criticized the governor for trying to cash in on his proposal for the Bur...Read More
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