Workers' Compensation News
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Former Fire Captain Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud | 02/19/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former captain with the San Antonio Fire Department was sentenced to two years of probation and one year of psychiatric counseling after pleading guilty to fraud for forging a supervisor's signature on insurance claims that said he was unable to work because of an injury, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Father Can't Assert Viable Labor Law Claim for Worker's Fatal Accident | 02/18/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York’s highest court ruled that the father of a worker who was killed at an industrial plant cannot assert a viable Labor Law claim against the property owner. ...Read More | |||
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Finance Committee Schedules Hearing on Labor Agency Consolidation Bill | 02/10/2020 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill carried over from the 2019 legislative session that would consolidate Alaska’s workers’ compensation and labor law agencies into a single division will get a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee this morning. ...Read More | |||
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Firm Wins $1.68 Million for Injured Worker Who Suffered Stroke at Home | 02/07/2020 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Charleston machinist in his mid-50s had a history of coronary artery disease. He suffered a massive stroke at home two weeks after rotator cuff surgery, almost a year after the injury. ...Read More | |||
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Former Santa Clara Police Officer Charged With Fraud | 02/05/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former police officer in Northern California was hit with fraud charges for allegedly exaggerating the severity of an injury almost exactly one year after his wife, who is also in law enforcement, was charged with the same crime. ...Read More | |||
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FAIR Health Proposes Changes to Medical Fee Schedule | 01/30/2020 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission will accept written comments on its updated medical fee schedule and provider manual through Wednesday, the commission said in a ...Read More | |||
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Fee Schedule Changes Would Mean More for Most, but Not All, Medical Services | 01/29/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A nonprofit consulting company has recommended extensive changes to Oklahoma's medical fee schedule for the first time in years, including an increase in conversion factors for some physician services, but a potential cut for others. ...Read More | |||
| Fatality at Raisin Plant Under Investigation | 01/28/2020 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating a fatal accident that occurred at a raisin processing plant in Fresno County last week. Yaneth Lopez Valladares, 33, was killed Friday morning while working for Del Rey Packing Co., according to a report by the are...Read More | |||
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Former Corrections Officer Charged With Workers' Compensation Fraud, Larceny | 01/17/2020 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former correctional officer in Connecticut was arrested by inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on a warrant charging him with working as a contractor while receiving workers’ compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Proves Entitlement to Benefits for Lung Cancer | 01/13/2020 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a firefighter carried his burden of proving that he developed a compensable occupational disease in the form of lung cancer. ...Read More | |||
