Workers' Compensation News
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Finance Division Proposes Changes to Work Comp Reporting Rules | 08/08/2017 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Oregon’s Division of Financial Regulation is proposing changes that would ease reporting requirements in its Workers’ Compensation Statistical Plan. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts 14 in Alleged Drug-Diversion Ring | 08/07/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal grand jury indicted 14 people for allegedly conspiring to divert at least 2 million prescription pills including oxycodone to the black market by using sham clinics and forged or fraudulent prescriptions, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Two indictments handed down by...Read More | |||
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First-Responder Survivors Demand Timely Death Benefits From Insurers | 08/02/2017 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A group of first responders is demanding that Gov. Chris Christie and other high-ranking state officials “fix” a system they say allows insurers to delay paying death benefits under workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
| Former Costa Mesa Police Officer Gets Six Months on Comp Fraud Conviction | 07/26/2017 | ||
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| A former Costa Mesa police officer convicted of insurance fraud in February was sentenced to six months in county jail, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Ryan P. Natividad, 32, said he injured his hand in September 2014 while booking a person into the Costa ...Read More | |||
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Fraud and Compliance Crackdown Yielding Millions in Fines and Hundreds of Violations | 07/26/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The North Carolina Industrial Commission’s crackdown on fraud and noncompliance triggered a 175% year-over-year increase in the number of charges for suspected violations of the Workers’ Compensation Act, the agency says. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Lawmakers Propose 'Resource Center' for Hanford Workers | 07/26/2017 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two U.S. senators are proposing legislation that would require the U.S. Department of Energy to work with officials in Washington state to create a resource center to educate workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation about federal and state compensation programs for people injured on the job....Read More | |||
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Father, Daughter Accused of Swindling Medicare Set-Aside Funds to Open Cigar Lounge | 07/24/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Southern California insurance agent and his daughter are accused of swindling two injured workers out of $273,954 by promising to invest their settlement funds, but diverting the money for personal use, the state Department of Insurance said Friday. ...Read More | |||
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Fee Schedule Changes Target Air Ambulances, Compound Drugs | 07/24/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: SC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| For the first time, South Carolina's medical fee schedule seeks to limit reimbursements to air and ground ambulances. ...Read More | |||
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Farmers Names Fernandez, Kappler Business Unit Presidents | 07/21/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Farmers Insurance has named new presidents for two of its business units. ...Read More | |||
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FBI Seizes Insys-Linked Doctor's Patient Records | 07/21/2017 | |
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| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal agents raided the office of an Overland Park pain management doctor with ties to Insys Therapeutics, an opioid manufacturer at the center of a federal kickback case, last week, the Kansas C...Read More | |||
