Workers' Compensation News
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Feds: Doctors Ran Pill Mill So Potent, Addicts Called It 'The Candy Shop' | 07/14/2017 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal prosecutors accuse two Connecticut doctors of writing narcotics prescriptions for drug dealers in exchange for cash, billing Medicaid for more than $4 million worth of patient care that never was never given and running a pill mill out of their Norwalk urgent care clinic that local a...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Dismissed After Workers' Comp Claim Investigation | 07/13/2017 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hartford's fire department has dismissed a firefighter after an investigation into suspected workers' compensation fraud, the Hartford Courant reported Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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First Responders Denied Benefits Ask 9th COA to Clarify Angelotti Decision | 07/12/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A group of first responders are appealing a series of trial court orders dismissing their allegations that two California cities conspired with third-party administrators to withhold workers’ compensation benefits and are asking the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to clarify its 2015...Read More | |||
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Feds Secure Plea Deals From Five Defendants in Kickback Cases | 07/11/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has more names to move from the list of indicted providers to the list of convicted providers as prosecutors in Southern California have quietly secured pleas from defendants accused of defrauding Medicare and federal workers’ compensat...Read More | |||
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First Responders Hail New Law That Compensates Them for PTSD | 07/10/2017 | |
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| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| First responders are applauding a new state law that compensates them for mental illnesses not connected to physical injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Former Officer Accused of Shooting Self, Claiming Comp Benefits | 07/07/2017 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former officer with the Newcomerstown Police Department is facing charges for allegedly shooting himself but claiming he was shot in the line of duty, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. ...Read More | |||
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Feds Probe Developer for Reportedly Hiring Subcontractors That Misclassified Workers | 07/07/2017 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Miami’s largest developer lowered its costs to build an affordable-housing project by hiring subcontractors who misclassified workers as independent contractors and failed to pay for workers’ compensation coverage and employment taxes, a newspaper reported Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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Formulary Rules Still in Development as Implementation Deadline Passes | 07/06/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation was still working on revisions to formulary rules proposed in March as the July 1 implementation deadline set by California lawmakers came and went. ...Read More | |||
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Fee Schedules Reduce Payments for Hospital Outpatient Surgeries, WCRI Finds | 06/30/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| States without a workers’ compensation fee schedule generally paid more for hospital outpatient surgeries, according to a new report, but of five reimbursement models studied, the lack of a fee schedule wasn’t necessarily the worst. ...Read More | |||
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Former Middle School Worker Charged With Work Comp Fraud | 06/27/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A 28-year-old man has been charged with workers' compensation fraud for allegedly working at a middle school, without disclosing the income, while receiving out-of-work benefits for an injury sustained at a treatment facility for at-risk youth, ...Read More | |||
