Workers' Compensation News
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Attorney Sam Pond to Teach Comp Class at Alma Mater | 09/25/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Sam Pond, a founding and managing partner at Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano in Philadelphia, has been appointed an adjunct professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. ...Read More | |||
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Applications Being Accepted for Spot on Workers' Compensation Board | 09/25/2017 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Nominating Commission is accepting applications for one position on the state Department of Workers’ Claims Workers’ Compensation Board. ...Read More | |||
| Agency to Restart Variance Notification Process | 09/20/2017 | ||
| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission on Thursday will re-implement the variance notification process to inform stakeholders when there has been an underpayment of benefits. Should a file audit reveal an underpayment of $50 or more, the commission will notify the injured wor...Read More | |||
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Agencies Aim to Get Injured Workers Vocational Help Sooner | 09/18/2017 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Commission and state Vocational Rehabilitation Department have proposed an agreement to make it easier for injured workers to get vocational rehabilitation. ...Read More | |||
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AG Latest to File Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers | 09/13/2017 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is the latest to file a lawsuit accusing major pharmaceutical manufacturers of downplaying the risks of overdose and addiction when marketing narcotic painkillers, and creating the opioid epidemic. ...Read More | |||
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Agency Releases Range of Fees by Utilization and Peer Review Organizations | 09/12/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Department of Labor and Industry’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has released the range of fees charged by utilization review organizations and peer review organizations for 2016 under the Workers’ Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Agency Changes Inpatient Hospital Reimbursements, Ups Rehab Consultant Fees | 09/12/2017 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Department of Labor and Industry’s Workers’ Compensation Division has given notice that, effective Oct. 1, payments for non-critical access hospital inpatient discharges will be adjusted upward by 6.81%, from $183,523 to $196,021. ...Read More | |||
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ASCs Say Regulators Misused Rule-Making Process to Undercut Adverse Court Ruling | 09/08/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Ambulatory surgery centers say the North Carolina Industrial Commission misused the state’s temporary rule-making process to undercut a court decision that invalidated its ASC fee schedule. ...Read More | |||
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AIG Names Lucy Fato as EVP and General Counsel | 09/07/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| American International Group Inc. has hired Lucy Fato as the company’s executive vice president and general counsel, effective Oct. 16. ...Read More | |||
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Amendments Seek to Clarify Conditions for Suspending Providers, Staying Liens | 09/05/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The head of the California Assembly Insurance Committee wants to eliminate any doubt as to whether lawmakers intended to require the suspension of executives such as former Pacific Hospital of Long Beach owner Michael D. Drobot following a conviction for certain crimes. ...Read More | |||
