Workers' Compensation News
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Texas Mutual Names Bill Potter New CFO | 05/13/2021 | |
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| Texas Mutual Insurance Co. on Wednesday announced that Bill Potter will serve as its new chief financial officer. ...Read More | |||
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Treatment Provider Waits Too Long to Dispute Employer's Payment of Bill | 05/12/2021 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a treatment provider waited too long after being allegedly short-changed by a municipal employer to file a claim for additional payment. ...Read More | |||
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Texas Mutual Announces $330M Dividend | 05/04/2021 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Texas Mutual Insurance Co. on Monday announced that its board of directors unanimously approved a $330 million dividend distribution for 2021. The p...Read More | |||
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Tower MSA Partners Completes SOC 2 Type II Audit | 04/29/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Tower MSA Partners, a Medicare set-aside and Medicare secondary payer compliance services company, announced that it completed its SOC 2 Type II audit. ...Read More | |||
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Treatment Provider Gets Paid Despite Employer's Retroactive Controversion of Claim | 04/20/2021 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court upheld an award of payment to a provider for services it rendered to a state worker before the employer filed a retroactive controversion of medical treatment. ...Read More | |||
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Trial Court Errs in Granting Challenge to Jurisdiction | 04/13/2021 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a worker’s personal injury suit against his employer should not have been dismissed on a plea to the jurisdiction. ...Read More | |||
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Two Plead Guilty in Estimated $3.6M Payroll Fraud Scheme | 03/31/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that two men in Florida pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges relating to their use of a shell company to conceal employees in a scheme that reportedly saved about $3.6 million in workers’ compensation costs. ...Read More | |||
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Temp Employee Can't Get Statutory Safety Violation Benefit Enhancement | 03/30/2021 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court reluctantly ruled that a statutory safety violation benefit enhancement does not apply to a temporary staffing company employee except in extremely limited circumstances. ...Read More | |||
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Total Paid for COVID-19 Claims Clears $74 Million | 03/24/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Florida employers have paid more than $74 million in benefits on nearly 38,000 claims related to COVID-19 since the pandemic started last year, according to the latest report from the Division of Workers’ Compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Terms of Settlement Prevent Widow From Challenging Offset to BLBA Benefits | 03/24/2021 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that a worker’s widow could not challenge a reduction in the amount payable under the Black Lung Benefits Act because of his prior settlement of a workers’ compensation claim for pneumoconiosis. ...Read More | |||
