Workers' Compensation News
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American Financial Reports $204M Net Income | 11/01/2018 | |
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| American Financial Corp. on Wednesday reported net income of $204 million for the third quarter, compared to $11 million for the third quarter of 2017. ...Read More | |||
| Advisory Committee Meeting Thursday | 10/29/2018 | ||
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| The New Mexico Advisory Council on Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Disease Disablement will discuss legislative issues during a meeting Thursday in Albuquerque. The agenda for the meeting doesn’t identify specific issues that will be the subject of conversation....Read More | |||
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Average Charged Rate Down 7% in 2018 | 10/26/2018 | |
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| California employers on average paid 7% less for coverage in the first half of 2018 than they did in 2017, according to a new report by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. ...Read More | |||
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Amerisafe Net Income Up as Gross Premiums Stay Level | 10/26/2018 | |
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| Amerisafe on Thursday reported net income of $19.7 million in the third quarter, an 18.8% increase from $16.6 million for the same period last year. ...Read More | |||
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Attorneys Take TTD Cap Challenge to Supreme Court | 10/25/2018 | |
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| Attorneys for an injured oil field worker on Wednesday announced that they will be taking their constitutional challenge to the statutory cap on temporary total disability benefits to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ...Read More | |||
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Another Conspirator Sentenced in Injection-Billing Scheme | 10/25/2018 | |
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| A Florida woman was sentenced to four years in prison and must pay more than $89,000 in restitution for her role in a Kentucky scheme to fraudulently bill insurance carriers for muscle relaxant injections. ...Read More | |||
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Applied Underwriters Asks Court to Reject as Unmanageable Class Certification | 10/24/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
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| Attorneys for Applied Underwriters say there are too many differences among allegations of unfair competition relating to its EquityComp and SolutionOne programs that it would make a class action lawsuit “unmanageable.” ...Read More | |||
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Appalachian Underwriters Appoints Sales Rep for Ill., Ind. and Mo. | 10/24/2018 | |
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| Nick Schnarre Appalachian Underwriters ann...Read More | |||
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Attorney Can't Get Paid for Referral of Comp Cases Through Unlawful Fee-Splitting Agreement | 10/23/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
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| A California appellate court ruled that an attorney who entered into an improper fee-splitting arrangement for the referral of workers’ compensation claims was not entitled to any payment for the referrals. ...Read More | |||
| Average Monthly Wage Increases 2.5% | 10/19/2018 | ||
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| The average monthly wage in Arizona has increased 2.5%, resulting in a commensurate increase in maximum indemnity benefits for workers injured on or after Jan. 1, 2019. The maximum wage will increase, to $4,741.57, from $4,625.92 at the start of the year. Injured workers receive i...Read More | |||
