Workers' Compensation News
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Firefighters, Cops Pushing for Expansion of Disability Retirement | 06/27/2017 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Firefighters and police officers in Rhode Island are hoping that lawmakers expand their disability retirement program to include illnesses before the legislative session adjourns this week, ...Read More | |||
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FDA Meeting to Focus on Abuse-Deterrent Opioids | 06/23/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will host a public workshop on July 10-11 to discuss methods for evaluating the impacts of abuse-deterrent opioids. ...Read More | |||
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Former Cable TV Executive Named to Workers' Compensation Board | 06/23/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The state Senate on Wednesday confirmed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s appointment of a former cable television executive to the state Workers’ Compensation Board. ...Read More | |||
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Fatal Trench Collapse Leads to $714K in Fines Against Plumbing Company | 06/21/2017 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A plumbing contractor in Blue Springs, Missouri, is facing proposed fines of $714,142 after a worker died in a trench collapse at a residential construction site. ...Read More | |||
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Falling Rates Make Golden State Less of an Outlier | 06/19/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Falling rates charged to employers in recent years have reduced the disparity in the cost of workers’ compensation coverage in California compared to other states, but if charged rates fully reflected the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s advisory loss costs, the G...Read More | |||
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Fall On Scaffold, Not Off, Brings No Cause of Action Under Law | 06/19/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A worker who did not fall off a scaffold, but instead suffered a seizure and collapsed on the scaffold, does not have a cause of action under New York state’s scaffold law, the 1st Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Former Legislative Counsel Named Workers' Compensation Director | 06/16/2017 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Nathan Deal has nominated the former House majority caucus counsel as a director to the three-member Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Fraud Assessment Commission to Discuss 2017 Grants | 06/14/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Fraud Assessment Commission is scheduled to vote on the California insurance commissioner’s recommendations for how to split up fraud-fighting grants among county prosecutors throughout the state during a June 21 meeting in Sacramento. ...Read More | |||
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Formulary Proposal Clears First Legislative Hurdle | 06/14/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A bill that would establish a drug formulary in Pennsylvania passed its first committee in the legislature on Tuesday in a party-line vote, with Democrats opposed. ...Read More | |||
| Former Arbitrator Leo Hennessy Dies at 84 | 06/14/2017 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Leo Hennessy, a former arbitrator for the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, died at the age of 84 on Saturday. Hennessy worked at the commission for 20 years. After his retirement in December 2010 at the age of 78, the law firm of Rusin Maciorowski Friedman ...Read More | |||
