Workers' Compensation News
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HomeCare Connect Names Timothy Bates as VP of Operations
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04/15/2014
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State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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HomeCare Connect has named Timothy Bates as its vice president of operations.In the newly created position, Bates will oversee HomeCare Connect's durable medical equipment, clinical call center and home-modification operations.Based ne...Read More
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High Court to Decide Compensability of Traveling Nurse's Car Crash
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04/11/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: OH | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral argument about whether a home health-care nurse should be entitled to workers' compensation benefits for her injuries from a car accident that happened while she was en route to a patient's house and the local mall....Read More
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Hahn Named Fireman's Fund CMO
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04/10/2014
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Robyn Hahn has been named chief marketing officer of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, the Novato, Calif.-based company announced in a release.Hahn will be responsible for developing and executing Fireman’s Fund’s marketing and communications strategy. She has 20 years ...Read More
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House Unanimously Passes Physician-Dispensing Bill
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04/09/2014
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State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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Peter Mantius, Northern Bureau ChiefA bill that would limit physician dispensing of prescription drugs to 15 days after an initial treatment and set reimbursements for drugs at 100% of average wholesal...Read More
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Hospital Employee Engagement Key to Performance, Says Gallup
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04/07/2014
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Hospital employee engagement, in which employees are devoted to their roles and deeply committed to their work, is key for health care providers to battle uncertainty and struggles adapting to changes required by the Affordable Care Act, according to a Thursday Gallup Business Journal report....Read More
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Hearing to Address Nonprescription Drugs, Pertussis
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04/03/2014
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State: TX | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The House of Representatives’ Public Health Committee will hold a hearing on Monday at 10 a.m. to listen to and consider both invited and public testimony on a pair of interim charges. The charges address nonprescription drug use, the state’s immunization registry and the recent outbreak...Read More
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Herbert Approves Intoxication, Claim Settlement and Dispensing Bills
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04/02/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law a bill that would reduce workers’ compensation benefits when a work accident is caused by drugs or alcohol.He also signed into law a bill to extend the time during which the Labor Commission can approve occupational disease settlements and cla...Read More
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Hickenlooper Signs 2 Comp Bills
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04/02/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed bills to authorize continuous appropriations from the state’s General Fund to pay benefits to injured state workers and allow workers’ compensation insurance carriers to use policy forms without obtaining approval from the insurance commissioner....Read More
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House Passes 'Doc-Fix' Bill that Delays ICD-10 another Year
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03/28/2014
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that will delay for another year a nationwide conversion to the ICD-10 billing codes. The language to delay implementation to the 10th edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health P...Read More
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