Workers' Compensation News
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Former SunTrust Manager Starts Firm to Help Businesses with Comp
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01/20/2015
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Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A former retail line of business manager for SunTrust Bank has founded a St. Petersburg firm to help businesses with risk management, including workers’ compensation, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
The Florida Office of Supplier Diversity certified Binger Financial Ser...Read More
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Former Industrial Commission Chairman Ray Rybacki Dead at 83
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01/20/2015
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State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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Services for former Illinois Industrial Commission Chairman Ray Rybacki will be held today in Orland Park and Alsip, the Workers' Compensation Commission announced. He was 83.
Rybacki served for 38 years on the Industrial Commission – 35 years as an arbitrator and three years as...Read More
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Firm Launches Service to Combat Claims from Independent Contractors
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01/19/2015
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Relevant Business Services, a commercial services firm, is today launching a program to defend employers against claims from independent contractors claiming to be employees.
The company, based in Phoenix, will seek to manage all aspects of a company's response when it faces an employ...Read More
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Four Arrested In Brevard County Sting on Alleged Unlicensed Contracting
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01/19/2015
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Source: Brevard County Sheriff's Office
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office made four arrests in a countywide investigation in which it partnered with the state’s Workers’ Compensation Fraud Division and other agencies to crack down on unlicensed contractors, the sheriff’s office announced in a release.
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Former Cal-OSHA Chief Welsh Defending Employers against Citations
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01/15/2015
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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After years of holding employers financially liable for workplace safety violations as the head of California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Len Welsh is now advising employers on how to defend against citations issued by the agency.
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Federal Judge to Say whether Government's Fraud Investigation of Worker Was Improper
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01/13/2015
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A federal trial judge in Oregon is set to decide whether the U.S. government went too far in its efforts to discover the true extent of an injured mail carrier's disability, by setting him up for a sham deep-sea fishing expedition and vocational rehabilitation interview.
Brian W. Hend...Read More
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Funds for Injured Worker's MSA Can't Be Included in Bankruptcy Estate
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01/09/2015
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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A federal bankruptcy judge in Pennsylvania this week ruled that an injured worker who blew through almost all of the proceeds from the $297,741.88 settlement of his comp claim in less than two years – including most of the $72,741.88 in a Medicare set-aside account – gets to keep all ...Read More
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Four Companies Cited after Death of Plumbing Co. Worker
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01/09/2015
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Source: OSHA
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited four Tallahassee, Florida-based companies for serious and willful safety violations after the death of a 25-year-old employee of Miller’s Plumbing and Mechanical Inc. last July, OSHA announced in a release.
While wo...Read More
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Fee Schedules, Supplemental Fund Last Pieces of SB 863 to be Put in Place
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01/08/2015
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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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Rules to implement the new requirements for medical provider networks that took effect in August 2014 were the last of the major cost-cutting provisions of Senate Bill 863 to be enacted, but California regulators still have more work ahead of them to finish implementing the reform measure.
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