Workers' Compensation News
| |
|
Embattled Comp Docs Score with Medicare Payments
|
04/14/2014
|
|
By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
|
|
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Employer
|
|
By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefA doctor accused by Farmers Insurance of billing for services he never provided to auto accident victims and injured workers earned $1.1 million treating Medicare patients in 2012, placi...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
En Banc 3rd DCA Rejects Fee-Shifting in Admiralty Case
|
04/10/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The en banc 3rd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday receded from its prior case law allowing a claimant to receive an attorney fee award in an admiralty case, pursuant to Florida's fee-shifting statutes.Case: Royal Caribbean Cruises v. Cox, No. 3D09-2712, 04/09...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Employers Holdings Executive VP and CFO to Retire in June 2015
|
04/10/2014
|
|
|
|
State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
William E. "Ric" Yocke, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Employers Holdings Inc., has informed the company he plans to retire as of June 30, 2015.Employers Holdings is a Reno-based holding company with subsidiaries that are specialty providers ...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Employer Suits for AIG Underreporting Get Consolidated in Chicago
|
04/10/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: IL | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Monday ordered that the four pending lawsuits against insurance giant AIG for allegedly underreporting workers' compensation premiums be consolidated in a federal trial court in Illinois.AIG, which does busin...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Employer Can't Get Out of Lump Settlement with Worker who Died
|
04/09/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: MO | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The Missouri Court of Appeals ruled that an employer who had sought to back out of a settlement it reached with a worker when the worker died one day after signing off on the agreement could not attempt to relitigate the issue of whether the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission should have...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
E/C Can't Get Ruling on Heirs of Worker Crushed by Pin Machine
|
04/09/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a judge's decision denying death benefits to the biological daughter of a worker who died after being crushed by a pin machine at a bowling alley, saying the judge's determination of who qualified as a dependent of the worker had bee...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Employer Not Liable for Worker's Post-Pension Medical Treatment
|
04/07/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The Washington Court of Appeals ruled that an employer is not liable for the cost of a worker's post-pension medical treatment if the worker had a preexisting disability for which the state's Second Injury Fund is liable and the post-pension treatment was not necessitated solely by the ...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Energi Opens New Office in Downers Grove
|
04/04/2014
|
|
|
|
State: IL | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
Energi, a risk management and workers' compensation provider for the energy industry, has opened a new office in Downers Grove.The new office, opened at the Esplanade I, will provide operational support for the company's Midwest staff, and give Energi a prese...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
En Banc WCAB Rules on When Worker Can Get New QME Panel
|
04/03/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board on Wednesday issued an en banc ruling that a worker who brings successive claims for injuries to the same body part does not need to return to the same panel qualified medical evaluator for each of his claims. In Febru...Read More
|
| |
1500 Results
Page 118 of 150
