Workers' Compensation News
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WCAB: Med-Legal Claimant Must Prove Necessity, Even if Payer Doesn't Issue EOR | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1370 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 52 min read | |||
| Medical-legal lien claimants are required to prove that expenses were reasonably and necessarily incurred to collect on a lien in California, and a payer that fails to cite reasonableness or necessity as an objection to a bill doesn’t forfeit the right to raise those defenses at a lien conf...Read More | |||
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Commissioner Cuts Pure Premium Rate Nearly 9% to $1.52 | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 223 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 94 min read | |||
| California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday approved the ninth consecutive advisory pure premium rate cut and lowered the benchmark to $1.52 per $100 of payroll, effective Jan. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Worker's Malpractice Suit Against Former Attorney | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 851 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 28 min read | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that an injured bookkeeper waited too long to file a malpractice suit against her former workers’ compensation attorney for failing to timely pursue a claim. ...Read More | |||
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Cloud Security a Growing Concern for Insurers | 11/15/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 188 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 10 min read | |||
| As more insurance carriers make the move to cloud-based systems, information technology experts are predicting that cloud security will become a greater focus in the coming year. ...Read More | |||
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State Sees 14% Drop in Professional Services Costs After Fee Schedule | 11/15/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: VA | Segment: Top | 206 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 22 min read | |||
| States that are struggling to keep a lid on medical costs may want to take a look at Virginia's fee schedule, which has cut costs for professional services significantly in just one year. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Extends Comment Period on Work-Status Report Rules | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 97 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 7 min read | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation has extended the deadline for public comments on rules that would govern how nurse practitioners can sign off on work-status reports. ...Read More | |||
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USPS Reports $3.5 Billion Increase in Work Comp Expenses | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 180 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 39 min read | |||
| The U.S. Postal Service reported an $8.8 billion net loss for the 2019 fiscal year, driven in part by a $3.5 billion increase in workers’ comp expenses....Read More | |||
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Court Clarifies Compensability Requirements for Hearing Loss, Tinnitus | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 140 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 65 min read | |||
| The Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld an award of benefits to two firefighters for their industrial hearing loss but overturned the award for one’s tinnitus. ...Read More | |||
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County Approves Switch to Private Carrier | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 131 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 365 min read | |||
| A county in Southern Georgia plans to leave a governmental pool and buy workers’ compensation coverage from a private carrier, a move projected to save at least $20,000, according to a report by the ...Read More | |||
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Special Disability Fund Comes to an End | 11/15/2019 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 101 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 19 min read | |||
| Every year at this time, the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission has updated the threshold at which large death and permanent disability claims would be paid from a special state fund. ...Read More | |||
