Workers' Compensation News
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Finance Department Comes Out in Opposition to Apportionment, RTW Fund Bills | 08/22/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration has announced its opposition to bills that would prohibit apportioning permanent disability to conditions related to pregnancy and require the state to spend all of the $120 million earmarked each year for the Return-to-Work Supplement Program. ...Read More | |||
| Funeral Arrangements Announced for Commission Arbitrator Robert Falcioni | 08/21/2017 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Visitation for Robert Falcioni, who served as an arbitrator with the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission for 20 years, will be held Tuesday, the commission said. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. at Kerr-Parzygnot Funeral Home, 540 Dixie Highway, at Orr Road, in Chicago Heights...Read More | |||
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Fraud Fighters to Convene for Two-Day Conference | 08/17/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Employers’ Fraud Task Force is hosting “The Big 2017 Fraud Fighting Conference” on Aug. 24-25 at the Pala Resort and Casino in northern San Diego County. ...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Death Benefits to Increase Based on Consumer Price Index | 08/17/2017 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Department of Financial Services has proposed an amendment to Rule 69A-64.005 to adjust the firefighter death benefits based on the Consumer Price Index. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Judge Allows Applied Underwriters to Argue EquityComp Is Not Insurance Plan | 08/15/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: VA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A company whose large-deductible workers' compensation insurance program is banned in several states is allowed to argue in Virginia federal court that signing up for the program involves signing a contract for reinsurance rather than a traditional insurance contract, a federal appellate judg...Read More | |||
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Former Insurance Company Worker Charged With Stealing From Customers | 08/15/2017 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Blount County woman is accused of stealing $38,000 from customers of her former insurance company employer, according to the Alabama Department of Insurance and county District Attorney’s Office. ...Read More | |||
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Father Blames Work Comp Case for Daughter's Suicide Attempt | 08/15/2017 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Louisiana father blames his 29-year-old daughter's workers' compensation fight for her suicide attempt, The Oklahoman newspaper reports. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
