Workers' Compensation News
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Bill Would Allow Occupational, Physical Therapy Assistants to Treat Injured Workers | 03/06/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow occupational therapy assistants and physical therapy assistants to treat injured workers. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Seeks Assessment Increase to Protect Solvency of Uninsured Employers Fund | 03/06/2020 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Maryland’s Uninsured Employers Fund is asking lawmakers for permission to increase assessments levied against workers’ compensation awards and settlements to protect the solvency of the program. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Require IWIF to Administer State's Claims | 03/05/2020 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund would be required to serve as the third-party administrator for Maryland’s self-insured workers’ compensation program for state employees, under a bill moving through the General Assembly. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Board Approves 13% Rate Cut | 03/04/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The board of directors for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation approved a 13% rate reduction for the next fiscal year that the carrier said will save employers more than $131 million in premiums. ...Read More | |||
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Board Bans Hold-Harmless Language in Settlement Agreements | 03/04/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New York Workers' Compensation Board will no longer approve settlements that require the claimant to indemnify or hold insurers harmless if Medicare demands reimbursement in the future. ...Read More | |||
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Billing Firm Alleges Widespread Refusal to Reimburse IBR Fees | 03/03/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 5 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A medical billing firm says it has taken the mantle of fighting for care providers who are wrongfully shut out when it comes to awarding legally mandated independent bill review fees. ...Read More | |||
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Bill to Add Appeals Court Advances After Amendments | 03/03/2020 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A bill that would add an appeals court level and reconfigure the workers' compensation adjudication system passed a key House committee last week after a few amendments were made. ...Read More | |||
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Basketball Program Owes $55,000, Comp Board Says | 03/02/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A southern New York basketball academy, already accused of fraud, now faces demands from the state Workers' Compensation Board for $55,000 in benefit awards it never paid, according to a Binghamton news site. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Force MEM to Privatize; Future of Surplus Still Unclear | 02/28/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: MO | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A bill introduced this week in the Missouri legislature would privatize a state-chartered workers’ compensation carrier created by statute more than two decades ago. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Increase Retirement Age for Judges | 02/26/2020 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ compensation judges in New Jersey would be allowed to serve an extra two years before being required by law to retire, under recently introduced legislation. ...Read More | |||
