Workers' Compensation News
| Federal OSHA Strikes Down State-Specific Fall Protection Standard | 02/10/2015 | ||
| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has struck down a standard for workplace safety that the Arizona Legislature put in place with a bill in 2012. OSHA rejected...Read More | |||
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Fort Worth Mayor Calls for Audit of CorVel's Cases with City | 02/09/2015 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A meeting with representatives of CorVel Enterprise Comp didn’t pacify Fort Worth, Texas, Mayor Betsy Price, who still maintains that a CorVel nurse case manager acted inappropriately at a local hospital after a policeman was shot on duty, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ...Read More | |||
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Former Mayor Paid Work Comp Defense Firm without a Contract | 02/06/2015 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Former Mayor Tony Mack ...Read More | |||
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FDA Approves Abuse-Deterrent Formulation of Controversial Opioid Zohydro ER | 02/04/2015 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The company that manufactures Zohydro ER has secured federal approval for a reformulation of the drug that contains abuse-deterrent features, answering the most common concern opponents of the medication raised last year. ...Read More | |||
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Fallin Maintains Comp Reforms Were a Positive in State of the State Address | 02/04/2015 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin stood by the state’s controversial workers’ compensation reforms during remarks in her State of the State address. ...Read More | |||
| Falls Lake National to Use New Predictive Analytics Platform | 02/04/2015 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Falls Lake National, a property and casualty insurer, has begun using Valen Analytics' risk prediction software for its workers' compensation coverage. Falls Lake is using the "predict" and "manage" aspects of Valen's InsureRight Platform, according to...Read More | |||
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Fort Worth Mayor Angry over CorVel's Inquiry after Shooting of Police Sergeant | 02/03/2015 | |
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| Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mayor Betsy Price Fort Wor...Read More | |||
| Former Comp Court Administrators Form Coalition to Fight Benefit Cuts | 01/29/2015 | ||
| State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two former administrators of Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Court have formed a nonprofit organization dedicated to reversing benefit cuts made by the state’s controversial, year-old workers’ compensation reform bill. Michael Clingman, the Workers’ Compensa...Read More | |||
| Firework Co. Slapped with Federal Fines after Worker Dies in Fire | 01/28/2015 | ||
| State: KS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $55,000 in fines for Lone Star Management in Pittsburg, Kansas, after one worker died and another suffered serious burns in a fire in August. A supervisor directed the two workers to use a gas-powered forklift to mov...Read More | |||
| Four Companies Cited after Storage Tank Explosion Killed Worker | 01/27/2015 | ||
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that two workers – one killed and one critically injured when a storage tank exploded – were unaware that the tank beneath them contained explosive methane and hydrogen sulfide gases. As a resu...Read More | |||
