Workers' Compensation News
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Fire Departments Awarded Grants to Buy Protective Equipment | 01/31/2018 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| Thirty-nine Ohio fire departments will share nearly $377,000 in grants from the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation under a new program that aims to reduce firefighters’ exposure to toxins. ...Read More | |||
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Falling Rates Possible Indicator of Soft Market Cycle | 01/30/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California carriers on average reduced their filed pure premium rates by more than 5% in 2017, and employers saw a bigger decline in the average amount they paid for workers’ compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Few Small Businesses Have Comp Coverage, Survey Finds | 01/30/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Only about one in six small-business owners in a recent survey said they have workers’ compensation coverage, a trend that some say may be due to lack of awareness of the importance of the coverage or a belief that it will cost too much. ...Read More | |||
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Feds Ask to Merge Restitution Hearings in Pacific Hospital Cases | 01/26/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to schedule concurrent restitution hearings for Michael D. Drobot, his son and a former chief financial officer who oversaw the spinal surgery kickback scheme at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach alleged to have bilked California workers’ compensatio...Read More | |||
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Former Health Official: Non-Narcotic Pain Treatment Is the Way to Go | 01/26/2018 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former director of the Rhode Island Department of Health spoke to the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council this week about the role non-narcotic pain treatment centers play in the fight to quash the opioid epidemic, the news site Uprise RI ...Read More | |||
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Furniture Assembler Charged With Workers' Comp Fraud After Making Facebook Posts | 01/25/2018 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Connecticut furniture assembler has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation by the chief state attorney’s workers’ compensation fraud unit, Connecticut’s Division of Criminal Justice announced this week. ...Read More | |||
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Formulary Launches Quietly; Focus Shifts to Transition Deadline | 01/23/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California’s new prescription drug formulary, which launched Jan. 1, appears to have caused no more disruption than the related update to the state’s evidence-based treatment guidelines that took effect one month earlier. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Trial Judge Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Exclusive Remedy | 01/19/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal trial judge in Oklahoma rejected an injured worker’s constitutional challenge to the exclusive remedy provision of the Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Four Named to KEMI Board of Directors | 01/18/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin on Wednesday announced four appointments to the Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance Authority board of directors. ...Read More | |||
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Filing Deadline Didn't Bar Suit by Worker Compensated for Injuries Out-of-State | 01/18/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the state's time limit for a worker to file a third-party claim did not apply to a truck driver in-training who had received benefits under the laws of another state. ...Read More | |||
