Workers' Compensation News
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Advisory Council Meets Friday | 10/06/2020 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Montana’s Labor-Management Advisory Council will meet Friday to review security deposit requirements for private carriers that the state Department of Labor & Industry said are unnecessary, as well as marijuana legislation. ...Read More | |||
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Advisory Council to Review Medical Report at Oct. 27 Meeting | 10/05/2020 | |
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| State: SD | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Members of the South Dakota Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council will review reports on medical trends and the use of opioids in the state when they meet Oct. 27. ...Read More | |||
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Artificial Intelligence Raises Concerns About Insurance Layoffs, Transparency | 10/02/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Artificial intelligence will have a huge effect on how insurers and regulators find and investigate fraud in the next few years, but the technology raises new ethical and legal questions about how it will be used. ...Read More | |||
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Amazon Subcontractor Shirks Workers' Comp Coverage, Lawmakers Charge | 10/02/2020 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State lawmakers and labor leaders are charging that Amazon's distribution center construction project has hired a subcontractor that brought in workers from COVID-19 hot spots and has avoided workers' compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Asking Insurers to Help Workers on COVID Claims Raises Eyebrows | 09/28/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| When the New York Workers' Compensation Board chairwoman posted a letter this month urging insurance carriers to bird-dog injured workers' medical documentation in COVID-19 claims, it struck some as odd. ...Read More | |||
| Advisory Council Meets Oct. 27 to Review NCCI Medical Report | 09/25/2020 | ||
| State: SD | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The South Dakota Workers' Compensation Advisory Council will meet Oct. 27 at 10 a.m., via the Microsoft Teams conference call platform, the Department of Labor and Regulation said in a bulletin....Read More | |||
| Agency Posts Home Health Reimbursement Rates | 09/22/2020 | ||
| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services has released new reimbursement rates for home health services, including those covered by workers' compensation insurance. The rates appear to show few changes from existing rates. Billing code G0299, for a registered nur...Read More | |||
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As MLAC Meets Again Over COVID, Issues Center on WCD's Authority | 09/18/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Members of Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee this afternoon will meet for the ninth time since June as they continue their ongoing struggle to issue a consensus recommendation on how the state should handle workers’ compensation claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney Fees Must Be Reviewed by Judge, Department Says | 09/16/2020 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Workers' Claims commissioner is reminding attorneys that their fees must be approved by an administrative law judge before they are paid. ...Read More | |||
| Actuarial Committee Votes Against Amending Rate Filing Based on 2Q Data | 09/09/2020 | ||
| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Actuarial Committee for the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Tuesday recommended not amending the bureau’s latest pure premium rate filing to include data from the second quarter. ...Read More | |||
