Workers' Compensation News
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Airport Worker Collected $5,500 a Month in Injury Benefits While Doing Labor | 06/26/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 176 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 18 min read | |||
| A Tampa-area man was sentenced to restitution and six months of home detention after pleading guilty to working while collecting federal workers' compensation benefits and lying about it. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Bill Would Allow All Employers to Pay Benefits by Debit Card | 06/22/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 614 | 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 | |||
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AmTrust Shareholders Approve Buyout Deal to Take Company Private | 06/22/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 236 | 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 | |||
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Attorney Can Collect Fee Based on Denial of Employer's Petition for Review | 06/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 133 | 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 | |||
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Albany's Loss-of-Use Claims Spiked in 2017 | 06/22/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 251 | 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 | |||
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Amended Bill Clarifies Prohibition on Apportionment to Genetic Characteristics | 06/21/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 562 | 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 | |||
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AIA, PCI Plan Merger | 06/21/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 270 | 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 | |||
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Assembly Allows Acupuncturists to Treat Workers; Another Bill Makes Workplace Negligence a Felony | 06/20/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 246 | 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 | |||
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Attorney Indicted for Allegedly Overbilling Claimants | 06/20/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 1747 | 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 | |||
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Audit Finds IRS Paying Comp Claims Without Proper Documentation | 06/20/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 198 | 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 | |||
