State: LA | Segment: Top | 772 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Industrial Helicopters voluntarily paid workers' compensation benefits to its employee Tommie Hebert after he fell from one its helicopters while trying to net deer in Mexico, but it can't get that money back from its workers' compensation carrier.
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State: ID | Segment: WEST | 457 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Providers in Idaho would like the Industrial Commission to increase reimbursement rates by 3% to keep pace with inflation. But employers in Idaho say they already pay too much for medical services, and the fee schedule should not be increased.
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 364 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Employers Holdings reported net income of $24 million during the second quarter, down 7% from $26.8 million in the same quarter last year.
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State: NM | Segment: WEST | 377 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Fifteen workers’ compensation carriers in New Mexico reimbursed injured workers for the purchase of more than eight pounds of medical cannabis in 2016, state regulators said.
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State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 413 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Taxpayers are on the hook for $916,000 in legal bills that two governors have incurred fighting a lawsuit by former Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey.
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 497 | 0 | Popular with Legal
EK Health has been awarded a contract with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to provide bill review, case management, medical provider network and utilization review services.
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 2837 | 3 | Popular with Legal
Align Networks, a network of workers’ comp rehabilitation providers that is embroiled in a lawsuit with California physical therapists, is quietly changing its name to One Call Physical Therapy, at the same time it's launching a new payment system that is generating concern.
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State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 460 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The Knoxville appeals court held that the Tennessee workers' compensation law's exclusive remedy provision barred an injured worker from suing his coworker for negligence.
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 453 | 0 | Popular with Legal
A wellness program that targets so-called frequent fliers in workers’ comp — employees with two or more work-related injuries within two years — has so far shaved $4 million off expected claim costs among participants at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 257 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Exxon Mobil Corp. is facing proposed federal penalties of $165,000 stemming from nine alleged safety violations discovered following an explosion that injured four workers at a Baton Rouge refinery last year.
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