Workers' Compensation News
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Hearing Scheduled on Pending NCCI Loss Cost Filing | 08/10/2018 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alaska Division of Insurance has scheduled a Sept. 12 hearing to discuss a pending National Council on Compensation Insurance loss cost filing. ...Read More | |||
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High Court OKs Last-Minute Exclusivity Defense | 07/31/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Nevada employers aren’t required to promptly raise exclusive remedy as a defense against negligence complaints and can assert the affirmative defense at any point in a case when doing so doesn’t prejudice an injured worker, the state’s high court ruled last week. ...Read More | |||
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Hospital Co-Founder Pleads Guilty in Forest Park Kickback Case | 07/27/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal prosecutors have announced another guilty plea in the wide-ranging Texas hospital kickback scheme that led to the indictment of 21 people, including doctors, hospital officials and one well-known workers' compensation attorney. ...Read More | |||
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Hearing Set to Determine Competency of Attorney Indicted in Kickback Case | 07/23/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal judge scheduled a hearing next month to determine whether attorney Lee Mathis is competent to stand trial on charges of paying kickbacks to providers who referred work comp patients to a medical company he created. ...Read More | |||
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Hand Amputation Brings $109K in Fines Against Manufacturer | 07/17/2018 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An industrial accident that cost a Georgia worker a portion of his hand will cost his employer $109,548 in penalties if sanctions proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration are upheld. ...Read More | |||
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HuffPo: Conservative SCOTUS Nominee Tends to Side With Employers | 07/12/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Republican President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, has tended to side with employers in workplace disputes, according to the Huffington P...Read More | |||
| He Kept On Trucking for Five Years, All The While Collecting Benefits | 07/10/2018 | ||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio judge ordered a claimant to pay more than $78,000 for continuing to collect workers' compensation benefits while working as a truck driver. Walter Lee, 54, of Frazeysburg, Ohio, was sentenced to five years' probation and a 14-day suspended jail term. Lee pleaded guilty in ...Read More | |||
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Homeowners Had No Liability to Injured Independent Contractor | 07/09/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled the owners of a residential property were entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law claim for a fall from the roof of their home. ...Read More | |||
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Higher Max on Wage Benefits Starts July 14 | 06/28/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers injured after July 14 will see higher maximum weekly indemnity benefits, thanks to House Bill 2, the much-debated law that brought major changes to Kentucky's workers' compensation system. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Amended Protz Fix After Governor Agrees to Compromise | 06/25/2018 | |
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| By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A new version of a bill to restore impairment rating evaluations in Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation system cleared the state House of Representatives on Friday after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf agreed to a compromise with Republican lawmakers. ...Read More | |||
