Workers' Compensation News
| Failing to Make Payments on past-due Premiums Results in Possible Jail Time for One Business Owner | 06/03/2015 | ||
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| A Wood County, Ohio man was sentenced to five years probation and could face up to 90 days in jail if he can’t keep up with payments relating to charges that he had failed to comply with a payment plan for past-due workers’ compensation premiums, according to a release from the Ohio B...Read More | |||
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Fiscal Committee Approves Formulary Bill, UR and Presumption Measures Die | 06/01/2015 | |
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| The Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would order the California Division of Workers' Compensation to implement a formulary for prescription drugs ahead of a key legislative deadline that passed on Friday. Two other bills that would have prohibited employers from ...Read More | |||
| Former Union Leader, Daughter Indicted for alleged Kickbacks from Clinic | 06/01/2015 | ||
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| A former union leader and his daughter were indicted last week for allegedly conspiring to solicit kickbacks from clinics in exchange for referring injured federal workers for medical services. Lenin V. Perez and daughter Liane M. Perez-Rodriguez are charged with conspiracy to receive a k...Read More | |||
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Finance Committee Votes to Split most ALJs from Dept. of Workforce Development | 05/29/2015 | |
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| Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance voted this week to move most of the administrative law judges handling workers’ compensation cases from the Department of Workforce Development to the Department of Administration. ...Read More | |||
| Former Prison Worker Ordered to Pay $97,352 for Double Dipping | 05/29/2015 | ||
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| A former corrections officer who pleaded guilty to felony theft for receiving workers' compensation benefits while running a construction business out of his home was ordered to pay $97,352 in restitution, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced. Benjie Leroy Christensen, 52, was a...Read More | |||
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Firefighters' Presumption and First Responders' Mental Health Benefits Bill May Not Get a Vote | 05/29/2015 | |
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| With only a week left in the session, it would appear that a heavily lobbied bill that would establish a cancer presumption to firefighters and grant mental health benefits to first responders who witness a death might not pass through the House, as feared. ...Read More | |||
| Fitchburg Supports Change to Law that Allows Retirees to Collect $1M in WC Benefits | 05/28/2015 | ||
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| Three retirees in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, have been able to take advantage of a loophole allowing them to collect almost $1 million in workers’ compensation benefits years after they retired, according to a report in ...Read More | |||
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Fla. Spine Surgeon Offers Warranty on Work | 05/27/2015 | |
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| Bring a car back to the shop with a manufacturing defect and they’ll cover the work free of charge. Send a patient of Dr. Ari Deukmedjian’s back, and he’ll do the same. ...Read More | |||
| Former Merchant Marine Gets 2nd Chance to Prove Jones Act Claim over Asbestos Exposure | 05/27/2015 | ||
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| The Superior Court of Pennsylvania revived a former merchant marine's claim for Jones Act negligence premised on his injurious exposure to asbestos. Case: Criswell v. Atlantic Richfield Co., No. 2175 EDA 2014, 05/18/2015, published. Facts: Earl Criswell filed Jones Act neglige...Read More | |||
| Fertilizer Manufacturer Faces almost $90K in OSHA Penalties | 05/26/2015 | ||
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| A fertilizer manufacturer is facing up to $89,500 in proposed penalties after investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited it for multiple safety violations, according to OSHA. The Danville-based Lebanon Seaboard Corp., which was on OSHA’s Site Specific...Read More | |||
