Workers' Compensation News
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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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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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