Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Wasn't Entitled to Presumption That Worker's Drug Use Caused Accident | 04/10/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a truck driver for an injury to his hand, finding that his employer was not entitled to a statutory presumption that his accident had been occasioned by the use of methamphetamine. ...Read More | |||
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Estate Has to Pay $650,000 for Deceased Doctor's Overbillings | 04/09/2018 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Pennsylvania physician fraudulently upcoded medical treatments on injured postal workers for more than 10 years, and now his estate has agreed to pay $625,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations, the U.S. Attorney ...Read More | |||
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Express Scripts Names Mike Cirillo President of myMatrixx | 04/04/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Express Scripts Holding Co. has named Mike Cirillo president of myMatrixx, a workers’ comp pharmacy benefit manager that Express Scripts acquired in May 2017. ...Read More | |||
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End of an Era as DIR Director Christine Baker Abruptly Retires | 04/03/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 6 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations since 2011, has retired. ...Read More | |||
| Eight Providers Suspended for Fraud or Loss of License | 04/03/2018 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Eight medical providers were suspended from the California workers’ comp system — five for fraud and three because they lost their medical licenses, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced Monday. The new suspension orders, signed by Administrative Director ...Read More | |||
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EK Health Hires Eastern, Western Sales Executives | 04/03/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| EK Health has hired Stephanie Reynolds and Dieter Pinner as sales executives for the Western and Eastern regions, respectively. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Lien Shouldn't Have Been Limited | 04/03/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that an employer’s recovery on a lien against an injured employee's third-party settlement should not have been limited to the amount the employee had deposited with the trial court. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Liable for $0 in Benefits Must Pay Worker's Share of Attorney Fees | 04/02/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that an employer was responsible for the payment of a worker’s share of the fee owed to an attorney. ...Read More | |||
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Evidence in Equipoise Required Finding of Compensability for Worker | 03/29/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits to a longtime mine worker, finding the evidence as to the cause of his back injury had been in equipoise, which required the claim to be treated as compensable. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Hit With Penalties for Failure to Timely Make Payment of Settlement | 03/21/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld an award of $57,733 in attorney fees and penalties against an employer for adding additional contractual language on the checks that it sent him, essentially attempting to force the worker to acknowledge the terms of payment when it had no contractual right to m...Read More | |||
