Workers' Compensation News
| Bill Amends Workers' Compensation Record-Keeping and Reporting Rules | 08/19/2016 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation that amends record-keeping and reporting requirements under the state’s workers’ compensation statutes. ...Read More | |||
| Business Insurance Shuts Down After 49 Years | 08/11/2016 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Crain Communications has ceased operations of its Business Insurance publication, the company announced this week, citing declining revenue from print advertising. The publication’s final print edition was the Aug. 1 issue; the last day for the businessinsurance.com website was Mond...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Limit Employer Liability for CT and Disease Claims | 08/04/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California employers would not be liable for medical treatment provided before they accept or deny a cumulative trauma or occupational disease claim unless the injured worker was treated by a doctor in the employer’s network or his or her personal physician, under recent amendments to a bil...Read More | |||
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Beecher Carlson Appoints Cait Levy as Senior Vice President | 08/03/2016 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC, a large-account insurance broker, has expanded its national health care practice by appointing Cait Levy as senior vice president, the company announced Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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BrickStreet Acquisition of HM's Workers' Comp Business Official | 08/02/2016 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. officially acquired the workers’ compensation block of business from Pittsburgh-based HM Insurance Group on Monday, adding 115 HM employees and moving closer to adding another regional headquarters. ...Read More | |||
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Business Wants New Laws to Lower Costs; Claimants' Attorneys Say Drop NCCI | 08/01/2016 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Just two weeks ahead of a rate hearing on a proposed 19.6% increase, Florida business groups and employers have formed a second task force to craft legislative solutions to trim costs. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Require Electronic Filing of Medical Bills, Payment Within 60 Days | 07/26/2016 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that would require health care providers or their electronic billing vendors to submit electronic bills for worker’s compensation claims is halfway home in New Jersey. ...Read More | |||
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Business Owner Allegedly Offered Fake Insurance, Kept $1 Million of His Clients' Payments | 07/26/2016 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Fort Myers man is accused of stealing more than $1 million by providing fictitious workers’ compensation insurance and payroll services, and then pocketing his clients’ payments. ...Read More | |||
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Board to Discuss Legislation That Would Modify Rules for Pneumoconiosis Claims | 07/25/2016 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Board of Directors will discuss acquiring an actuarial analysis of a proposed bill that would modify benefits for occupational pneumoconiosis claims and create a new board to determine medical findings for those claims. ...Read More | |||
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Boss Who Lied About Worker's Job Status Pleads Guilty to Workers' Comp Fraud | 07/22/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Santa Barbara man who ran a sealcoating business pleaded guilty to felony workers' compensation fraud this week, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office announced. ...Read More | |||
