Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Fraud More Expensive, Claimants More Likely to be Jailed
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10/15/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Premium fraud committed by employers accounts for a greater share of convictions and dollars lost to fraud in California than false claims filed by workers, but workers are more likely to be sentenced to at least one day in jail according to a WorkCompCentral analysis of data reported to the Depa...Read More
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Employer's Failure to Raise Challenge to PFB Waived Its Ability to Contest Fee Award
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10/14/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The failure of an employer and its insurance carrier to seek dismissal of a petition for benefits on the basis that it had not been accompanied by a written statement from the worker's authorized treating doctor waived its ability to raise this deficiency to contest the worker's entitleme...Read More
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Employee's Failure to Request Treatment Didn't Take Employer Off Hook for Cost of It
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10/14/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer that undisputedly knew that its employee had been injured on the job was liable for his medical treatment costs, even though the worker had never formally asked his employer to pay for his care, a Florida appellate court ruled.
Case: Fortune v. Gulf Coast Tree Care. No. 1D13-5...Read More
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Employer Penalized for Failing to Inform Claimant he Could Choose Physician
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10/13/2014
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State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer that failed to inform its injured worker that he had a right to choose his own physician must pay a $2,000 penalty and $5,000 in attorney fees, the Louisiana 2nd Court of Appeal ruled.
Case: O'Quinn v. Trinidad Drilling, No. 49,372-WCA, 10/01/2014.
Facts: Damian O&...Read More
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Experts Fear EEOC as Disdainful as OSHA of Work Safety Management Tools
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10/10/2014
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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While rules proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration could eliminate post-injury drug testing, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has taken aim at another tool commonly used by employers: workers' compensation background checks.
Both agencies...Read More
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EPIC Brings in Head of Employee Benefits Consulting for Bay Area
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10/08/2014
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, a retail property and casualty brokerage, has hired a regional director to expand the company's Employee Benefits Consulting Division in the Bay Area.
David Wiesner, who has 25 years of experience in strategic market planning, sales organizatio...Read More
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Employers Pitching Fixes for Recent Court Cases
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10/08/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Oregon employers, responding to a pair of recent court decisions that they say expand their liability for pre-existing conditions, are pushing for legislation to make benefits payable only for conditions that are accepted on a claim.
The Oregon Supreme Court last December struck down an a...Read More
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