Workers' Compensation News
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Amended Bill Would Extend Claim Filing Deadline for IRC Shooting Victims | 03/29/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The one-year statute of limitations to file a workers’ compensation claim in California would be extended to allow victims of the terrorist shooting at the Inland Regional Center to file claims through the start of 2025, under recently amended legislation. ...Read More | |||
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AF Group Names New Product Management, Underwriting Director | 03/29/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| AF Group named Michael Bachman as product management and underwriting director, where he will lead the multiline corporate underwriting team. Bachm...Read More | |||
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AD Praises DWC's Response to Virus, Says Pandemic Has 'Changed' Business | 03/26/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| At last year’s Division of Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference, California stakeholders wondered what impacts an encroaching COVID-19 pandemic would have on the state’s comp system. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney Sentenced to Jail for Stealing $650,000 Comp Settlement | 03/25/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A disbarred New York attorney was ordered to spend one to four years in state prison after pleading guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a workers’ compensation settlement to help pay restitution following his conviction for stealing nearly $230,000 from another client, ...Read More | |||
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Ametros Names Michael Crowe Chief Development Officer | 03/24/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Medical fund management and administration company Ametros named Michael Crowe as chief development officer, where he will focus on product and strategic sales development, building new customer relationships and expanding programs. ...Read More | |||
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Appellate Court Publishes Part of Decision Upholding Kickback Case | 03/17/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California’s 4th District Court of Appeal published part of a decision finding substantial evidence supports a jury’s finding that an office manager of a radiology firm was guilty of 35 counts of offering compensation for work comp patient referrals and 16 counts of insurance fraud....Read More | |||
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Advisory Council Reviewing Presumption Bill at Thursday Meeting | 03/16/2021 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Tennessee Advisory Council on Workers’ Compensation will discuss on Thursday a legislative proposal to create a rebuttable presumption that COVID-19 is compensable for emergency rescue workers. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Bill Would Give Peace Officer Presumptions to San Diego Lifeguards | 03/15/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Full-time lifeguards working for the City of San Diego would enjoy the presumptions that conditions including hernias, heart trouble, cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments arose out of employment, under recent amendments to a bill in the California Assembly. ...Read More | |||
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Actuarial Committee Meets Tuesday | 03/12/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Actuarial Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California will review the impact of the economic slowdown on pure premium rate indications, among other things, during a meeting Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Alleged Employer Fails to Adequately Plead Fraud Defense | 03/09/2021 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that a business owner could not raise a fraud defense to a claim for reimbursement by the Uninsured Employers' Fund for benefits paid to his alleged employee. ...Read More | |||
