Workers' Compensation News
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Failure to Document Hours Results in No Fee for Firm | 07/20/2017 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Alabama law firm that represented a worker who was injured when he had to jump off a runaway rail vehicle was hoping to be paid more than $400,000 for its services, but walked away with nothing last week after the Court of Civil Appeals ruled it did not adequately document the time it had spen...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Accused of Comp Fraud After Playing Gigs With Former Band | 07/18/2017 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Guilford firefighter has been accused of workers' compensation fraud for playing drums on a few songs with his former bar band and helping them set up equipment while out on a workers' compensation injury to his right knee. ...Read More | |||
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FDA Eyes Mandatory Opioid Training for Prescribers | 07/14/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants to expand training available to doctors on opioid prescribing — and is even considering mandatory opioid education for prescribers. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
