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	Attorney Gets 2-Year Suspension for Engaging in Unauthorized Practice of Law		05/22/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: NY \| Segment: NORTH \| 323 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 14 min read
	A New York attorney got herself suspended from the practice of law earlier this month for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law in neighboring New Jersey. ...Read More


	Appellant's Failure to Timely Serve Parties Doesn't Divest Judge of Ability to Extend Deadline		05/18/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: NV \| Segment: WEST \| 334 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 10 min read
	The Nevada Supreme Court this week ruled that a municipal employer’s failure to timely serve all the necessary parties with a copy of its petition for judicial review of an adverse workers’ compensation decision did not mean that it was necessarily out of luck. ...Read More


	Artemis Emslie Joins Ametros' Board of Directors		05/18/2018

	State: NA \| Segment: NATIONAL \| 283 \| 5 \| Popular with Employer \| 715 min read
	Artemis Emslie has joined the board of directors of Ametros, a provider of post-settlement medical management services. ...Read More


	As More States Pass Opioid Prescribing Limits, Bills Become More Sophisticated		05/16/2018
	By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
	State: NA \| Segment: Top \| 404 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 37 min read
	Oklahoma is the latest to join a growing number of states that have enacted limits on opioid prescribing for acute pain and, in some cases, address the use of opioids for chronic pain as well. ...Read More


	Another Court Holds in Favor of Air Ambulance Company in Billing Dispute		05/15/2018
	By: William Rabb (Reporter)
	State: FL \| Segment: Top \| 899 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 45 min read
	Insurance carriers, state officials and attorneys for airlifted patients are growing increasingly frustrated with a spate of recent court rulings that continue to block state fee schedules and regulations, including those that ban the practice of balance billing. ...Read More


	Agents Asking TDI to Extend Negotiated X-Mod Rule		05/14/2018

	State: TX \| Segment: SOUTH \| 470 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 24 min read
	The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas is asking the state Department of Insurance to extend the expiration date of a rule that allows allows insurers to use negotiated experience modifi...Read More


	Archdiocese Gets Summary Judgment Tossing Worker's Labor Law Claims		05/11/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: NY \| Segment: NORTH \| 420 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 43 min read
	A New York appellate court ruled that the Archdiocese of New York was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law claims arising from his alleged fall from a scaffold while working on a church rectory. ...Read More


	Allegations of Deficient Representation, Coercion by Judge Didn't Warrant Reopening of Claim		05/10/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: MS \| Segment: SOUTH \| 226 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 5 min read
	The Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that a worker was not entitled to the re-opening of her settled claim based on bare allegations that she had received poor representation by her prior attorney and that a judge had forced her into mediation. ...Read More


	Administrative Assessment Rate Will Rise Slightly, to 2.77%		05/10/2018

	State: ME \| Segment: NORTH \| 216 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 337 min read
	The administrative fund assessment rate for insurers will rise slightly for fiscal 2019, which begins July 1, the Maine Workers' Compensation Board announced this week. The assess...Read More


	American Family, Main Street America Announce Merger		05/07/2018

	State: NA \| Segment: NATIONAL \| 145 \| 0 \| Popular with Insurance \| 18 min read
	American Family Insurance and the Main Street America Group will pursue a merger, the companies announced on Friday. The merger, expected to close ...Read More

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KY - OSHA Training in Louisville Oct. 22-26

09/24/2018 | 28 | 0

Kentucky's state-run workplace safety agency will offer another round of free training Oct. 22-26, this time in Louisville. The free training for employers and employees will run all week and will cover hazard communication, electrical safety, injury record-keeping, excavation and trenching, spray paint safety, fire protection, confined spaces, and wages and hours. The classes will be at the University of Louisville Shelby Campus, Founders Union Building, Room 6, in Louisville, and will start at 8:30 a.m. each day. Most classes qualify for continuing education credit for plumbing, and h... Read More

RI - Bug-Sniffing Dogs to Check for Bedbugs at WC Court

09/24/2018 | 34 | 0 | 121 min read

Courthouse officials agreed to bring in bug-sniffing dogs to find bedbugs that have brought numerous complaints from workers. After a meeting with employees Thursday, administrators at the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Rhode Island, home to the Workers' Compensation and other courts, said dogs were to be brought in Saturday, according to the Providence Journal newspaper. Union leaders and others have said the complex should be closed and treated for the insects after people complained of seeing the itch-inducing bugs on several floors. But a court administrator said that a pest contro... Read More

NY - Corrections Officer Accused of Working as a Bouncer While on Benefits

09/21/2018 | 127 | 0 | 5 min read

A New York corrections officer has been charged with grand larceny and insurance fraud after investigators discovered that he was working as a bouncer in an Albany-area bar while collecting workers’ compensation benefits, the New York Inspector General’s Office said. Benjamin Essenter, 44, of Clifton Park, was arrested and arraigned in the Town of Colonie Justice Court, according to a press release. Essenter claimed he was injured while working as a corrections officer at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in the summer of 2016. He submitted medical examination reports stating... Read More

CA - Columnist: WCAB Move Fits Pattern of Rewarding Friends With Patronage

09/21/2018 | 555 | 0 | 14 min read

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to appoint a high school classmate to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board fits with a pattern of rewarding friends with political appointments since the start of his third term in 2011, according to columnist Dan Walters. Juan Pedro Gaffney Walters, a former columnist for the Sacramento Bee who joined the nonprofit CALmatters as a commentary writer in 2017, said that shortly after Brown took office in 2011, he rescinded an appointment his predecessor made to the state community college Board of Governors. Brown’s office exp... Read More

RI - Officials Aren't Itching to Close Courthouse Over Bedbug Sightings

09/21/2018 | 64 | 0 | 1 min read

Despite calls from labor unions to shut down the courthouse because of bedbugs, court administrators have said it's not such a biting concern and plan to keep the building operating. Union officials and courthouse regulars have complained for weeks about the itch-causing insects on several floors of the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence and don't feel that the issue is being taken seriously, according to local TV news. "It's a serious situation, and I don't know that they're taking it to the level I think it should be taken," said Michael Dow... Read More

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