Workers' Compensation News
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BWC to Focus on Wellness and Workplace Safety | 12/29/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will focus on wellness and workplace safety in 2018, the agency’s administrator says in an editorial. ...Read More | |||
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Broker Had No Liability for Failing to Secure Coverage for Construction Workers | 12/28/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an insurance broker had no liability for failing to provide a client with coverage for construction workers injured at the client’s property when the client had not requested it. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Amends Physician Rules, Effective Jan. 1 | 12/27/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Doctors who take on extra work as an injured worker’s “treatment team leader” and submit to “enhanced provider outcome measurements” will be awarded incentives under a new rule that takes effect Monday. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Names Nicholas Trego Director of PBM Program | 12/20/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation has named Nicholas Trego the director of its pharmacy benefits program. ...Read More | |||
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Board Moves to Ban Weapons at Facilities, Allow Phone Conferencing | 12/20/2017 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals is moving toward electronic filing, banning weapons at its facilities and allowing judges to conduct conferences by phone. ...Read More | |||
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Board Adopts Updated Reference Materials for Fee Schedule | 12/19/2017 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board has amended its medical fee regulations to include updated reference material. The boa...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Increase Prison Guards' Weekly PPD Payments | 12/18/2017 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A bill that would make Maryland's state prison guards eligible for higher weekly payments for certain injuries will have its first reading in the Senate's Finance Committee on Jan. 10. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Extend Disease Presumption to Correctional Officers | 12/18/2017 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that would add correctional officers to the list of public safety workers for whom hypertension, heart disease and certain infectious diseases are presumed to be work-related has been introduced in the Virginia legislature. ...Read More | |||
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BWC's Investigative Unit Nets 5 Convictions in November | 12/18/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Four Northeast Ohio workers pleaded guilty in November to defrauding the Bureau of Workers' Compensation by working while receiving benefits, the BWC's special investigations department announced Friday. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Permit Fund of Last Resort to Sell Health Insurance | 12/15/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Four Democrats and a Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives have introduced for the third time a bill that would allow State Workers’ Insurance Fund to sell health insurance. ...Read More | |||
