Workers' Compensation News
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Flat Rate for Copy Shops Would Jump 22%; Perjury Attestation Remains in Proposed Fee Schedule | 08/02/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation wants to raise the flat rate for copy services by $45 starting in 2022, according to proposed amendments to the state’s Copy Service Fee Schedule ...Read More | |||
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Fraud Conviction Results in Denial of Naturalization Application | 07/30/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that a worker was properly denied naturalization based on an old conviction for concealing employment while collecting disability and workers’ compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
| Formal Return-to-Work Plans Can Put a Dent in Rising Claims Costs, Experts Say | 06/21/2021 | ||
| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Annual nationwide workers’ comp claims costs have risen by tens of billions of dollars over the past three decades, but employers who maintain formalized return-to-work plans for injured employees can help mitigate cost-drivers such as growing medical costs and expensive litigation, two com...Read More | |||
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Fitch Predicts Strong Underwriting in 2021, but Profitability Unsustainable | 06/14/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Workers’ compensation underwriting performance should remain strong in 2021, but current levels of profitability are not sustainable over the long term, according to Fitch Ratings. ...Read More | |||
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Former Forklift Operator Gets PTD Award for Elbow Injury | 06/09/2021 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent total disability benefits to a former forklift operator for an elbow injury. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Judge Gives Surgeon 15 Months for Role in Pacific Hospital Kickback Scheme | 05/26/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal judge last week sentenced an orthopedic surgeon to more than a year in prison for accepting more than $600,000 in bribes and kickbacks while referring patients for expensive spinal surgeries at a Southern California hospital sullied by fraud for more than a decade, the ...Read More | |||
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Firm Announces Death of Francis 'Terry' Drass | 05/26/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ compensation defense firm McNamara & Drass announced the death of founding partner Francis “Terry” Drass. He was 74. ...Read More | |||
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Former Logger Charged With Taking Nearly $300K in Fraudulent Benefits | 05/26/2021 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former logger who claimed leg and back injuries has been charged with stealing nearly $300,000 in benefits after investigators accused him of faking his injuries, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries said. ...Read More | |||
| Flooring Business Owners Charged in Alleged $3.84 Million Fraud Scheme | 05/17/2021 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Department of Insurance announced the owners of a Sacramento flooring company were charged with felony workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly underreporting payroll and employees by more than $30 million to reduce premiums paid to three carriers by a combined $3.84 million...Read More | |||
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Feds Want Another Crack at Phone They Say Contains Evidence of Kickback Scheme | 05/11/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal investigators have asked a U.S. district judge in Southern California for another chance to unlock a defendant’s smartphone they say contains evidence of his role in an alleged kickback scheme that defrauded workers' comp carriers out of more than $284 million. ...Read More | |||
