Workers' Compensation News
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Airport Worker's Injury While Running Personal Errand Was Within COE | 03/08/2017 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Tuesday ruled that a 21-year old worker was within the course of her employment when she lost her leg in an accident in an airport ground support vehicle while she was retrieving some personal belongings from her mother. ...Read More | |||
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Acting Commissioner Replaced After a Few Months on Job | 03/08/2017 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Former state Rep. Mike Nemes has been named acting commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Workers’ Claims. ...Read More | |||
| Advisory Council Meeting March 15 | 03/06/2017 | ||
| State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Wisconsin’s Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council is meeting March 14 in Madison. Council members will watch a video explaining the state’s open records law and hear a presentation about the Kids Chance of Wisconsin program, according to the agenda for the meeting. ...Read More | |||
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Amendment Scraps Formulary, Adopts Hybrid Medicare-Based Fee Schedule | 03/03/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A closed drug formulary has been scrapped, and a hybrid Medicare-based fee schedule has been added, to a workers’ compensation reform bill still mired in the Illinois Senate. ...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court Sets Aside $841K Fine on Motel for Lapsed Coverage | 03/03/2017 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Colorado Court of Appeals asked the Division of Workers' Compensation to reconsider an $841,200 fine against a small business that went without workers' compensation insurance for about five years, ...Read More | |||
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AmTrust Completes Acquisition of AmeriHealth Casualty | 03/03/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| AmTrust Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of AmeriHealth Casualty Insurance Co., a provider of workers' compensation insurance in the Mid-Atlantic region. AmTrust bought AmeriHealth from Philadelphia-based Independence Health Group Inc. for $92.8 million in cash, A...Read More | |||
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AIA Names Michael O'Malley Chief of Public Policy | 03/03/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The American Insurance Association has named Michael O'Malley its senior vice president for public policy, the organization announced Thursday. O'Malley, who starts March 16, spent the bulk of his 23-year career at the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, most recently as its senio...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court Overrules WCC on Credibility of Doctors' Testimony | 03/02/2017 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court erred by relying on the testimony of an independent medical examiner instead of the treating physician who had performed surgery, when denying a claim by a worker who had been thrown across a garage when a tire exploded next to him, the Court of...Read More | |||
| Acquisition by BrickStreet May Boost HM Casualty's Ratings | 03/02/2017 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A.M. Best has placed under review with positive implications the Financial Strength Rating of A-, or excellent, and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” of HM Casualty Insurance Co. The under-review status follows the acquisition of Pittsburgh-based HM Casualty by Brick...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court Misinterpreted Definition of 'Willful Misconduct,' High Court Finds | 03/01/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: GA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers who get hurt while behaving dangerously, recklessly and in deliberate defiance of managers' orders should have their workers' compensation claims denied, the Georgia Supreme Court wrote in an opinion published Monday. ...Read More | |||
