Workers' Compensation News
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House Insurance Committee to Consider Residual Market in Hearing Today | 12/03/2014 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
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Highlands County Adopts Stricter Comp Policies for Employees | 12/02/2014 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Highlands County, Florida, has adopted new workers’ compensation policies and procedures after years of increasing losses and workers’ compensation premiums, according to Highlands Today. ...Read More | |||
| High Court Clarifies Requirements for Bringing Bad-Faith Suit | 12/01/2014 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a worker could not proceed with her bad-faith claim against her employer based on its alleged failure to pay benefits due to her, without first obtaining a certification from the Workers' Compensation Court that the employer hadn't provided the employ...Read More | |||
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High Court Says Metropolitan Opera House Can't Get Coverage Under Contractor's CGL Policy | 11/25/2014 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
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| High Court Revives Failed Self-Insurer's Tort Claims against Guaranty Association | 11/24/2014 | ||
| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: MS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Mississippi Supreme Court last week revived a group self-insurer's negligence and bad-faith claims against the state Workers' Compensation Group Self-Insurer Guaranty Association, finding that the trial court had ruled prematurely that the organization was protected by the immun...Read More | |||
| Huntsville Insurance Broker Charged with Mail Fraud | 11/03/2014 | ||
| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Huntsville insurance broker was indicted Thursday on one count of mail fraud involving a scheme to divert customers’ insurance premiums for his own benefit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama announced. David Randall Mullins, 45, was indicted aft...Read More | |||
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High Court Says Comp Commission Decisions Need Not Be Introduced as Evidence on Appeals | 10/31/2014 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
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High Court Justice Seeking Re-Election Attacked for 'Liberal' Decision in Comp Case | 10/31/2014 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Montana Supreme Court Justice Mike Wheat three years ago questioned whether a $3,000 payment to nondependent survivors of a worker killed on the job was sufficient to invoke the exclusive remedy protections of the workers' compensation system that shield an employer from civil actions. ...Read More | |||
| Healthpointe Offering Occupational Care at Corona Office | 10/30/2014 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Healthpointe Medical Group announced that it is now offering occupational medical services at its office in Corona and currently accepting workers' compensation cases and referrals directly from California insurance carriers and employers. Occupational services offered in Corona inclu...Read More | |||
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Heath Rebuts Story in Alternative Paper that Questions Ties to Conference, Law Firm | 10/30/2014 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| North Carolina Industrial Commission Chairman Andrew Heath on Wednesday took issue with a local news report that raised questions about his relationship with the sponsor of the commission's 2014 educational conference and a cocktail reception held during the conference by Heath's former l...Read More | |||
