Workers' Compensation News
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Employee of WC Carrier Charged with Stealing $2.7 Million from Company
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10/31/2014
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A former employee of the workers' compensation carrier Bituminous Insurance Cos. has been charged with 15 felony counts of fraud and money laundering for an alleged 12-year scheme where he stole about $2.7 million from his employer.
Dominic Giovanni Scodeller, the former man...Read More
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Employee of Temporary Staffing Agency Can't Sue Her Employer's Client in Tort
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10/30/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Florida appellate court ruled that a temporary staffing company's employee could not pursue her civil suit against the staffing company's client as a matter of law.
Case: Baker v. Airguide Manufacturing, No. 3D13-2878, 10/29/2014, published.
Facts: Gwendolyn Baker began ...Read More
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Employers Taps Former Hanover Exec as Eastern Region Sales VP
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10/23/2014
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Employers Insurance Group has appointed Martha Collins as vice president of regional sales for the eastern region. She will be based in Baltimore.
Collins will work under the direction of the senior vice president and chief sales officer, and focus on business opportunities that are consi...Read More
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EK Health Launches Prescription-Intervention Program
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10/21/2014
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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EK Health Services announced Monday that it has added a prescription-intervention program to its suite of managed care services.
The goal of the program is to ensure that medications prescribed to treat an injured worker are appropriate, as well as necessary, to help restore the injured w...Read More
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EMC Begins Demolition as it Expands Downtown Des Moines Campus
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10/21/2014
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State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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EMC Insurance is demolishing three century-old brick buildings in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, as it start works on a new four-story office building, the Des Moines Register reported Friday.
EMC expects to spend $12 to $20 million on its new building, which will include an
employee gy...Read More
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ExecuSummit Slated for Feb. 3-4 in Uncasville
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10/21/2014
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State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The 12th Annual National Workers' Compensation ExecuSummit will be held Feb. 3-4 at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center & Hotel in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Steven N. Weisbart, chief economist for the Insurance Information Institute, will deliver the keynote address, "Mega-Trend...Read More
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Evidence Supporting Finding of MMI for Worker, Even after Her Change of Doctor
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10/20/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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An Ohio appellate court ruled that substantial evidence supported a finding that a worker, who switched treating doctors after the doctor issued a report indicating that her condition had "plateaued," was at maximum medical improvement for her back injury, even without the report from t...Read More
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Edgewood Partners Cofounder to Leave Company
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10/16/2014
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Seven years after cofounding Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, Dan Francis is leaving the company.
"In leaving EPIC, I’ve decided to begin a new journey outside of insurance that will afford me the opportunity to further ‘give back’ and focus on some personal inte...Read More
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Employer Entitled to Partial Offset for Settlement Paid to Claimant in ADA Case
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10/16/2014
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State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer is entitled to a credit for the $47,485 it paid to a claimant to settle a discrimination claim against its obligation for workers' compensation benefits, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled, reversing the state Workers' Compensation Commission for a second time in the same cas...Read More
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