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	Amended Bill Would Allow All Employers to Pay Benefits by Debit Card		06/22/2018

	State: CA \| Segment: WEST \| 765 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 112 min read
	All California employers would be allowed to pay temporary disability benefits by debit card, under a recently amended bill. Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramen...Read More


	AmTrust Shareholders Approve Buyout Deal to Take Company Private		06/22/2018

	State: NA \| Segment: NATIONAL \| 294 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 40 min read
	An increased price per share was enough to convince AmTrust Financial Services Inc. shareholders to accept a buyout offer that will take the company private. ...Read More


	Attorney Can Collect Fee Based on Denial of Employer's Petition for Review		06/22/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: OR \| Segment: WEST \| 175 \| 0 \| Popular with Insurance \| 26 min read
	The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a worker’s attorney is entitled to an award of $2,200 in fees because the worker “prevailed” against the denial of his claim when the Supreme Court denied a petition for review. ...Read More


	Albany's Loss-of-Use Claims Spiked in 2017		06/22/2018

	State: NY \| Segment: NORTH \| 312 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 3 min read
	Payouts for loss-of-use claims in Albany spiked by 1,700% in 2017, leaving the city with almost $2 million in payouts to injured city workers, according to a local news report. ...Read More


	Amended Bill Clarifies Prohibition on Apportionment to Genetic Characteristics		06/21/2018

	State: CA \| Segment: WEST \| 610 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 51 min read
	California state Sen. Richard Pan amended a bill that would prohibit doctors from using race, gender or national origin in determining the percentage of permanent disability caused by factors outside of work, to remove references to a 2017 appellate court decision allowing apportionment to geneti...Read More


	AIA, PCI Plan Merger		06/21/2018

	State: NA \| Segment: NATIONAL \| 349 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 22 min read
	The two largest workers' compensation insurance advocacy groups in the U.S. plan to merge, the groups announced Wednesday. The American Insuran...Read More


	Assembly Allows Acupuncturists to Treat Workers; Another Bill Makes Workplace Negligence a Felony		06/20/2018
	By: William Rabb (Reporter)
	State: NY \| Segment: Top \| 305 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 11 min read
	The New York Assembly late Tuesday passed a bill that would let acupuncturists be reimbursed for treating injured workers. The chamber also endorsed what's been named Carlos' Law, which would make criminal negligence in workplaces a third-degree felony, punishable by imprisonme...Read More


	Attorney Indicted for Allegedly Overbilling Claimants		06/20/2018

	State: TX \| Segment: SOUTH \| 2172 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 20 min read
	A Texas grand jury has indicted a Lewisville attorney on three counts of workers’ compensation fraud-related charges for allegedly billing clients for services that weren’t provided, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. said Tuesday. ...Read More


	Audit Finds IRS Paying Comp Claims Without Proper Documentation		06/20/2018

	State: NA \| Segment: NATIONAL \| 255 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 12 min read
	The Internal Revenue Service is not ensuring that workers’ compensation claims are properly documented to show that the claimant was injured during the scope of employment or that claimants are still disabled and remain eligible for employment, according to ...Read More


	Appalachian Underwriters Appoints Marketer in Dallas Area		06/20/2018

	State: TX \| Segment: SOUTH \| 192 \| 0 \| Popular with Insurance \| 16 min read
	Appalachian Underwriters announced the appointment of Armando Duran as external marketing representative for Texas. He is based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. ...Read More

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

09/21/2018 | 60 | 0

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 | 68 | 0 | 7 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 | 37 | 0

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

FL - FCBI Relocates Headquarters to Orlando

09/21/2018 | 109 | 0

Florida Citrus, Business & Industries Fund announced Thursday that it has moved its corporate headquarters from Alachua, Florida, to Orlando. FCBI, a group self-insurance fund, provides workers’ compensation insurance to more than 7,000 policyholders in Florida. The fund said its relocation has created more than two dozen jobs and it remains committed to growing its workforce in the coming years. The fund earlier this year moved all of its marketing and underwriting functions in-house. When the fund began its operations in in 1977 it focused entirely on providing covera... Read More

CA - Waste Hauler Fined $46K After Worker Fatality

09/21/2018 | 76 | 0

After Bay Area garbage hauler was run over by his own truck, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited his employer for failing to ensure that the truck’s safety restraint was in good working order, and for failing to ensure that that it wasn’t used by workers driving from the right side of the truck. Cal/OSHA said a GreenWaste Recovery worker was run over while collecting recyclables in San Jose on March 2. He was making a turn while operating the truck from the right hand side when he fell out of the vehicle. Cal/OSHA’s inspection determined that the... Read More

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