Workers' Compensation News
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Insurers to Lobby for Change to Authorization Bill Today
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03/05/2013
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State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By John P. Kamin, ReporterPayers will lobby the Texas House of Representatives' Insurance Committee today to exempt workers' compensation insurers from a bill that would require insurers to respond to certain type...Read More
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Insured's Auto Policy Recovery Must Be Offset by Comp Benefits
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02/28/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MD | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An insured's benefits, payable under a motor vehicle insurance policy's personal injury protection and uninsured motorist coverage, shall be reduced to the extent that the insured recovered workers' compensation benefits for which the workers' compensation insurance carrier has ...Read More
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Interpreter Fined after Pleading Guilty to Overbilling L&I
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02/25/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Seattle man will pay more than $5,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to charges that he overbilled the state for Spanish-language interpretive services, the Washington Department of Labor & Industry said Friday. A King County Superior Court judge sentenced Bara...Read More
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Investment House Requests Approval to Acquire OneBeacon Runoff
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02/25/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Bermuda-based investment house has filed an application with Pennsylvania regulators to take control of OneBeacon Insurance Co., which announced last October that it had entered into an agreement to sell its runoff commercial line policies.Trebuchet US Holdings filed an application wit...Read More
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IAIABC Halts Opioid Regs while State Formularies Show Promise
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02/22/2013
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By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefState lawmakers and regulators hoping for national guidelines to help curb overuse of narcotic drugs in workers' comp will have to wait longer than expected – or look at what individ...Read More
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Injured Trucker PTD, But Not Entitled to Low Back Care
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02/21/2013
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State: SC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An injured truck driver is permanently totally disabled, but did not prove that his low back pain justified life-time care, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled.Case: Brown v. Peoplease Corp., No. 5082, 2/13/13, published.Facts: Thomas Brown, an employee for Peoplease Co...Read More
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IWIF Promotes 3 to Territorial Account Jobs
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02/19/2013
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State: MD | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Injured Workers' Insurance Fund Workers' Compensation Insurance announced three promotions last week of employees to the positions of territorial account executives.IWIF said in a news release that Charmaine Kelley has been promoted to agency services manager and will serve as te...Read More
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Insurer Barred from Using Defense in Coverage Dispute
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02/15/2013
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State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Montana State Fund's concealment of a fact barred it from using a statute of limitations defense in a coverage dispute, the Montana Workers' Compensation Court concluded. Case: Hartford Insurance Company of the Midwest v. Montana State Fund, No. 2013 MTWCC 4, 2/13/13, published....Read More
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Insurance Division Says Comp Market Is Stable
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02/14/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Workers’ compensation rates are stable and new carriers continue to enter the market, the Nevada Division of Insurance said in its 2013 analysis of the statewide insurance market.Over the long-term, workers’ compensation rates are decreasing, but a 1% increase in voluntary ma...Read More
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Industrial Commission Schedules Hearing on Wage Index
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02/14/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Arizona Industrial Commission will hold a public hearing to discuss regulations that tie annual changes in benefits to changes in a federal cost index.Lawmakers in 2012 passed House Bill 2368 requiring that increases to maximum benefits be based on changes in the Employment Cost Inde...Read More
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