Workers' Compensation News
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AM Best Assigns Credit Rating of 'a' to CompSource | 12/14/2020 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| AM Best assigned a financial strength rating of “A (Excellent)” and a long-term issuer credit rating of “a” to CompSource Mutual Insurance Co., headquartered in Oklahoma City. ...Read More | |||
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Allegedly Injured Nurse Doesn't Establish Statutory Employment Relationship | 12/14/2020 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A narrowly divided Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that a nurse allegedly injured while working for a contractor at a detention center could not pursue a workers’ compensation claim against the owner of the property as her statutory employer. ...Read More | |||
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Agency Posts 2021 Schedule of Disabilities and Benefits | 12/11/2020 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Division of Workers' Compensation has posted the 2021 schedule of disabilities and maximum benefits. The schedule covers ...Read More | |||
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Agency Pitches New Fee Schedules With Cuts to Hospitals, Surgical Centers | 12/09/2020 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Florida Division of Workers' Compensation will hold an online meeting Wednesday to hear from stakeholders on medical fee schedule changes that could reduce system costs by more than $88 million. ...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court Vacates Portion of Injunction in Lawsuit Against Former ExamWorks Employees | 12/08/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court vacated part of an injunction against former employees of a California medical supply business who are accused of stealing company secrets to start a competing enterprise. ...Read More | |||
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ALJ Has Authority to Resolve Dispute Over Selection of Contractor | 12/08/2020 | |
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| State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The District of Columbia’s highest court ruled that an administrative law judge had authority to resolve a dispute between a quadriplegic worker and an insurance carrier over the selection of a contractor to modify his home. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney Accused of Orchestrating Self-Dealing Scheme With Interpreting Firm | 12/07/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 3 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An applicants’ attorney who allegedly referred his clients to receive services from an interpreting company he controlled was charged with 20 felony counts in what the California Department of Insurance said is a $311,000 fraud scheme. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney for Workers Who Survived San Bernardino Attack Laments Lack of Comp Changes | 12/01/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An attorney representing nine people who survived a 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino said the state’s workers’ compensation system needs to change its utilization review process because it caused treatment delays for her clients, a local newspaper reported. ...Read More | |||
| Applicant's Psychological Distress from Denial of Job Did Not Constitute Work-Related Disability | 11/30/2020 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that a county employee who is found to be unqualified for a new position, and who then suffers a psychological disability triggered by the failure to obtain that position, is not entitled to a service-connected disability retirement. ...Read More | |||
| Attorney Suspended After Gun Incident | 11/25/2020 | ||
| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A South Carolina personal injury and workers' compensation attorney has been suspended from practice after he was arrested in a gun-related incident. Jason Taylor, of Charleston, was charged in October with pointing a gun at a police cadet in the driveway of Taylor's downtown Char...Read More | |||
