Workers' Compensation News
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Fiscal Committee Schedules Hearing on Presumption Bill | 06/12/2020 | |
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| A couple of days after California lawmakers finalize their plans to address the projected $54 billion deficit and enact a 2020-21 budget, a fiscal committee in the state Senate will take another look at a bill that would create a presumption that COVID-19 is an occupational injury for certain wor...Read More | |||
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Federal Comp Program Adopts COVID-19 Presumption for High-Risk Workers | 06/09/2020 | |
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| The federal workers' compensation program has adopted a presumption that workers in high-risk jobs should receive benefits if they develop the COVID-19 illness. ...Read More | |||
| Frequency Drops, Cumulative Trauma Claims Rise During Recessions, WCIRB Study Says | 06/05/2020 | ||
| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Officials from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Wednesday reiterated the U.S. had been thrown into a sudden and “unprecedented” economic downturn thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic that took hold in March. ...Read More | |||
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Fraud Investigations Have Slowed; Telemedicine May Be the Next Big Wave | 06/04/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
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| Remember the “Compound King,” the Houston pharmacist charged with billing the federal workers' compensation program more than $21 million for unnecessary creams and gels? ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Upholds Expansion of Workplace Safety Regulation | 05/27/2020 | |
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| The U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, ruled that the U.S. Secretary of Labor properly expanded the scope of a workplace safety regulation to apply to the construction industry without following formal rulemaking procedures. ...Read More | |||
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Fee Schedule Update Expands Access to Telehealth | 05/14/2020 | |
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| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation said the latest revision to the Official Medical Fee Schedule includes technical updates and provisions to support expanded access to telehealth services. ...Read More | |||
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Focus on COVID Could Leave Little Room for Comp During Shortened Session | 05/12/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| With members of the California Senate returned to Sacramento Monday and joining their counterparts in the Assembly who reconvened last week, observers predict most workers' compensation bills will get passed over as legislators rush to soften the blow of the coronavirus pandemic and appr...Read More | |||
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Florida, Maryland Data Show No Claims Increase in First Months of Pandemic | 05/12/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| If two eastern states' filings for March and April are any indication, the country's number of workers' compensation claims have not yet exploded because of the coronavirus. ...Read More | |||
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Fed Up With Rude Behavior to Staff, Chairman Orders One-Day Delay in File Processing | 05/07/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The strain of changes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic may have begun to show in the Illinois workers' compensation system. ...Read More | |||
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Failure of Telemed Bill Seen as Discouraging Docs From Participating | 05/06/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Just as providers and regulators across the country have expanded the use of telemedicine during the coronavirus outbreak, Pennsylvania may have hit a stumbling block after a Senate bill regulating reimbursement of the practice was altered in the state House of Representatives. ...Read More | |||
