Workers' Compensation News
| Insurance Fraud Bureau Releases Annual Report, few WC Cases Being Prosecuted | 04/15/2015 | ||
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| Close to 1,000 fraud cases were handed off to Massachusetts prosecutors last year, including a handful of workers’ compensation cases that were referred to the state’s Insurance Fraud Bureau, according to the bureau’s annual report released this month. General...Read More | |||
| Insurers Hoping for Time Limit on Physician Dispensing to Injured Workers | 04/13/2015 | ||
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| Insurers are asking the Wisconsin Workers' Compensation Advisory Council to follow the lead of Indiana and recommend legislation that would limit the amount of time that physicians can dispense medications to workers' compensation claimants. In a ...Read More | |||
| Insurance Committee Schedules Hearing on Formulary, Integrated Care Bills | 04/09/2015 | ||
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| The Assembly Insurance Committee will hear testimony later this month on bills that would implement a drug formulary for California's workers' compensation system and establish a pilot project to measure the effectiveness of integrating work comp coverage with general heath care. ...Read More | |||
| Industrial Commission Releases Implementation Guide for electronic Injury Report Submission | 04/08/2015 | ||
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| The Idaho Industrial Commission has released its standards for Electronic Data Interface Claims Release 3.0, which employers will be required to submit injury reports through starting in 2017. The commission has adopted the implementation guidelines of the International Association of Ind...Read More | |||
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Insurance Panel Chairman Proposes pilot Liability Program for small Contractors | 04/07/2015 | |
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| The chairman of the New York Assembly Insurance Committee is proposing an unusual new program to provide general and excess liability insurance for small construction companies as a cushion against rising premiums blamed on the state's 130-year-old scaffold law. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Guard Was Entitled to Continue Getting 'Assault Pay' after Retirement | 03/31/2015 | |
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| The Appeals Court of Massachusetts ruled that a corrections officer who was injured by inmate violence was entitled to receive "assault pay" for as long as he received workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
| Insurance Dept. Approves 5.99% Reduction in Loss Costs | 03/30/2015 | ||
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| Pennsylvania workers' compensation rates will drop 5.99% on April 1, saving employers a projected $140 million in the coming year, Gov. Tom Wolf's office announced Friday. Wolf said the Insurance Department approved the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau's annual loss-cos...Read More | |||
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Industrial Commission Offers Secure FTP Site to Upload Medical Practice Guidelines | 03/27/2015 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
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Insurance Federation Names new Executive Director | 03/25/2015 | |
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| The Massachusetts Insurance Federation has named a new executive director to represent its interests. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Fraud Bureau Welcomes new Investigator | 03/20/2015 | |
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