Workers' Compensation News
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Five Inland Empire Health Clinics Begin Accepting WC Patients | 04/14/2015 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Cedar Medical Group, a chain of multi-specialty health care clinics in the Inland Empire region of California, has begun accepting patients seeking ...Read More | |||
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Former NFL Star Sues for Gross Negligence, Claims Treatment Facility Caused Toe Infection | 04/14/2015 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
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| Fatal Explosion Brings $97,200 in Fines against Well-Drilling Co. | 04/10/2015 | ||
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| An explosion that killed an oil field worker who was welding inside a water-hauling tank in Williston, North Dakota, prompted the U.S. Occupational and Safety and Health Administration to propose $97,200 in fines against a well-drilling company. OSHA said 28-year-old Dustin Payne, a Marin...Read More | |||
| Finance Committee Approves Bills to Consider Electronic Claims Process | 04/09/2015 | ||
| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Finance Committee of the Hawaii House of Representatives unanimously passed a pair of bills that would create a working group to make recommendations on developing an electronic system for filing workers' compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
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Fall Hazards and other Violations Bring $72,380 in OSHA Fines against Repeat Violator | 04/09/2015 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
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| Foundry Contesting $160,200 in Fines for 31 alleged Safety Violations | 04/06/2015 | ||
| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing $160,200 in fines against a Prescott, Kansas, aluminum foundry that the agency says did not train employees on how to handle and store chlorine gas. OSHA said it inspected Custom Alloy Sales 34P LLC in September 2014 afte...Read More | |||
| Four Lawyers Defect from one Insurance Defense Firm to Open Branch for Another | 04/06/2015 | ||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| McAngus, Goudelock and Courie, an insurance defense firm, is opening a new office in Nashville with the help of four lawyers defecting from another firm. Chuck Mangelsdorf, Stephen Morton, Paul Brewer and Joey Johnsen – all former attorneys with the law offices of Leitner,...Read More | |||
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Fall Hazard Brings $40,000 OSHA Fine against Electrical Contractor | 03/27/2015 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing $40,000 in penalties against a New Hampshire electrical contractor for exposing an employee to fall hazards. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Trial Judge Rejects NHL Motion to Dismiss MDL Concussion Litigation | 03/27/2015 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal trial judge in Minnesota on Wednesday ruled that a class of current and former professional hockey players can proceed with their claims that the National Hockey League allegedly concealed the risk of long-term health consequences from concussions they suffered during their playing days...Read More | |||
| Four Years after Reforms, Stakeholders ready for more Changes | 03/20/2015 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two camps have emerged in Illinois politics on the subject of workers' compensation reform. Gov. Bruce Rauner, Republican lawmakers and business groups say the 2011 reforms did not produce all of the savings that were promised and the state needs to do more to cut costs. Labor and cla...Read More | |||
