Workers' Compensation News
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BWC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Clear Final Hurdle | 09/13/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New opioid-prescribing rules cleared an Ohio legislative hurdle Monday and will be finalized Sept. 19, despite a national pain management organization’s concerns that the regulations go too far. ...Read More | |||
| Businessman Charged With Fraud Through Alleged Shell Corporation | 09/09/2016 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A South Florida businessman created a shell corporation to defraud one insurance company out of nearly $1 million, investigators told CBS12 in West Palm Beach. Eric Horace Hanson, of...Read More | |||
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Buyer Plans to Revive Business Insurance Publication | 09/02/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Adam Potter, executive director of the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance, announced Wednesday that he has purchased recently shuttered Business Insurance from Crain Communications. ...Read More | |||
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Baltimore-Based Claimants' Attorney Dies After 50 Years in Practice | 09/01/2016 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Melvin Siegel, a longtime workers' compensation claimants' attorney and lifelong Baltimore resident, died on Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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Brentwood Services Promotes Controller to Chief Financial Officer | 09/01/2016 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Tennessee-based Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. has promoted Controller Collette Mangold to chief financial officer. ...Read More | |||
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Business Process Re-engineering Project Will Result in Minor Cost Reductions | 08/30/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board, which recently helped pass a 9.3% increase in loss cost rates, concedes that a highly touted, multi-year process to streamline system operations “will only result in minor reductions” of loss costs. ...Read More | |||
| Businessman Charged With Fraud for Allegedly Underreporting Payroll by Millions | 08/30/2016 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Miami businessman has been charged with felony workers’ compensation fraud as investigators allege he avoided more than $400,000 in premiums by providing false and misleading information, and by grossly underreporting his company’s total payroll. Elso J. Macias, owner o...Read More | |||
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Bermuda-Based Insurer Endurance Launches Workers' Comp Policy for U.S. Clients | 08/23/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based property and casualty insurance and reinsurance company, announced the launch of a workers' compensation insurance policy targeted at middle-market and large-account risk management clients in the U.S. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Fraud Investigators Net Six Convictions | 08/23/2016 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation netted six convictions in July in criminal cases related to workers' compensation fraud, bringing the total number of convictions for the year to 61 for BWC’s Special Investigations Department. Last month’s convictions include:...Read More | |||
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Bill Limiting Corporate Executive Exemptions Goes to Governor | 08/19/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly gave final approval to a bill that would require officers and directors to own at least 15% of the issued and outstanding stock in a corporation to opt out of workers’ compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
