Workers' Compensation News
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Teacher Ordered to Pay Nearly $9,000 After Pleading No Contest to Fraud | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California teacher was ordered to pay nearly $9,000 in restitution after pleading no contest to a fraud charge for participating in a marathon a month after reporting a back injury that prevented her from working, according to PROBE, a division of VRC Investigations. ...Read More | |||
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Fraud Conviction Results in Denial of Naturalization Application | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that a worker was properly denied naturalization based on an old conviction for concealing employment while collecting disability and workers’ compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Posts Updated Loss-Elimination Ratios, Advisory Plan Tables | 07/30/2021 | |
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| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California published updated loss-elimination ratios that were used to compute classification relativities in the recently approved ...Read More | |||
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Study Finds State Policies Reduce Opioids, but Worker Advocates Bemoan Lack of Alternatives | 07/30/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A new study has found that drug monitoring programs and recently implemented policies limiting the period of initial prescriptions have reduced opioids in workers’ compensation, but injured worker advocates say the data doesn’t properly account for alternative treatments or workers wh...Read More | |||
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Purdue Developing Opioid Antagonist of Potential Interest to Comp | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Purdue Pharma is developing a long-acting opioid antagonist for treating overdoses that will likely be of interest to the workers’ compensation community, pharmacy benefit manager myMatrixx reports. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Shouldn't Have Been Denied Benefits for Psych Injury After MMI | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a worker should not have been denied temporary indemnity benefits for a mental injury even though more than six months had elapsed since she reached maximum medical improvement for a physical injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Daughter Receives Award for Loss of Use | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that the daughter of a worker was entitled to an award for his loss of use of his limbs in an accident that resulted in death shortly after he was extricated from his truck. ...Read More | |||
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CLM Names Ronna Ruppelt as New CEO | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Insurance industry association CLM on Thursday named Ronna Ruppelt as its new CEO. ...Read More | |||
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LASIE Seminar to Cover Medical Trends in Comp | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers is hosting a one-day seminar Aug. 16 covering basic principles of medical injuries commonly seen in workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Some Things Change, Some Stay the Same Under Updated Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Rules | 07/29/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California’s COVID-19 workplace safety rules no longer require physical distancing for workers in most cases, but versions of many of Cal/OSHA’s temporary emergency standards adopted last year remain in effect, state safety of...Read More | |||
