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	Interim Committee Discussing Future of Montana State Fund		02/13/2018

	State: MT \| Segment: WEST \| 359 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 45 min read
	An interim legislative committee is discussing the future of the state-chartered Montana State Fund and whether the carrier should be privatized or possibly even dissolved. ...Read More


	Injured Cop Advocates To U.S. Senator: Officers Need Help Navigating Benefit Process		02/09/2018

	State: SC \| Segment: SOUTH \| 242 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 89 min read
	An injured former police officer from Berkeley County is among those encouraging U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, to introduce legislation to help injured first responders who lose their health insurance, ...Read More


	IME, Peer-Review Services Company Opens Location in Phoenix		02/07/2018

	State: AZ \| Segment: WEST \| 214 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 38 min read
	A Boston-based company that provides independent medical examination and peer-review services to the workers’ compensation, automotive, disability and group health markets opened its eighth location last week. ...Read More


	Industry Becomes More Creative in Recruiting Claims Professionals		02/05/2018
	By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
	State: NA \| Segment: Top \| 930 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 18 min read
	As the insurance industry faces the need to fill an estimated 400,000 positions by 2020, some are turning to an unusual strategy: recruiting S...Read More


	Injury Caused by Nightmare About Spiders Was Idiopathic, 4th DCA Decides		02/02/2018
	By: Emily Brill (Reporter)
	State: AR \| Segment: Top \| 376 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 37 min read
	A firefighter who jumped from his bunk after a nightmare is not entitled to benefits for the foot fracture he sustained because the injury’s cause was “idiopathic,” or personal to him, ...Read More


	Insurance Division Licenses 30 New Captives in 2017		02/01/2018

	State: HI \| Segment: WEST \| 283 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 50 min read
	The Insurance Division of Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs licensed 30 new captive insurance companies in 2017, an amount the agency said ties the most captives licensed in a single year since the captive insurance law took effect in 1986. ...Read More


	Insurance Industry Added 30K Jobs Last Year		02/01/2018

	State: NA \| Segment: NATIONAL \| 279 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 25 min read
	The insurance industry gained 1,900 jobs in December, bringing the 2017 total to 30,000 additional jobs for the industry, according to an economic situation report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. ...Read More


	Imprisoned Ex-Lawmaker to Plead Guilty to Faking Proof-of-Insurance Paperwork		01/31/2018

	State: KY \| Segment: SOUTH \| 360 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 115 min read
	An imprisoned ex-lawmaker plans to plead guilty to charges that he faked proof-of-insurance paperwork for his Eastern Kentucky coal mine, the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper reports. ...Read More


	Injured Police Officer Can't Increase Pension Benefit After Soliciting Re-Evaluation		01/30/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: CT \| Segment: NORTH \| 273 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 67 min read
	The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that an injured police officer was not entitled to a higher award of pension benefits after he asked an independent medical examiner to provide a re-evaluation using a different version of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent...Read More


	Injured Longshoreman Was Entitled to Change of Treatment Providers		01/25/2018
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: LA \| Segment: SOUTH \| 279 \| 0 \| Popular with Legal \| 20 min read
	The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision of the Benefits Review Board finding that an injured longshoreman was entitled to a change in physicians after his initial authorized doctor ended treatment. ...Read More

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NY - Corrections Officer Accused of Working as a Bouncer While on Benefits

09/21/2018 | 58 | 0

A New York corrections officer has been charged with grand larceny and insurance fraud after investigators discovered that he was working as a bouncer in an Albany-area bar while collecting workers’ compensation benefits, the New York Inspector General’s Office said. Benjamin Essenter, 44, of Clifton Park, was arrested and arraigned in the Town of Colonie Justice Court, according to a press release. Essenter claimed he was injured while working as a corrections officer at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in the summer of 2016. He submitted medical examination reports stating... Read More

CA - Columnist: WCAB Move Fits Pattern of Rewarding Friends With Patronage

09/21/2018 | 61 | 0 | 9 min read

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to appoint a high school classmate to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board fits with a pattern of rewarding friends with political appointments since the start of his third term in 2011, according to columnist Dan Walters. Juan Pedro Gaffney Walters, a former columnist for the Sacramento Bee who joined the nonprofit CALmatters as a commentary writer in 2017, said that shortly after Brown took office in 2011, he rescinded an appointment his predecessor made to the state community college Board of Governors. Brown’s office exp... Read More

RI - Officials Aren't Itching to Close Courthouse Over Bedbug Sightings

09/21/2018 | 35 | 0

Despite calls from labor unions to shut down the courthouse because of bedbugs, court administrators have said it's not such a biting concern and plan to keep the building operating. Union officials and courthouse regulars have complained for weeks about the itch-causing insects on several floors of the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence and don't feel that the issue is being taken seriously, according to local TV news. "It's a serious situation, and I don't know that they're taking it to the level I think it should be taken," said Michael Dow... Read More

FL - FCBI Relocates Headquarters to Orlando

09/21/2018 | 105 | 0

Florida Citrus, Business & Industries Fund announced Thursday that it has moved its corporate headquarters from Alachua, Florida, to Orlando. FCBI, a group self-insurance fund, provides workers’ compensation insurance to more than 7,000 policyholders in Florida. The fund said its relocation has created more than two dozen jobs and it remains committed to growing its workforce in the coming years. The fund earlier this year moved all of its marketing and underwriting functions in-house. When the fund began its operations in in 1977 it focused entirely on providing covera... Read More

CA - Waste Hauler Fined $46K After Worker Fatality

09/21/2018 | 67 | 0

After Bay Area garbage hauler was run over by his own truck, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited his employer for failing to ensure that the truck’s safety restraint was in good working order, and for failing to ensure that that it wasn’t used by workers driving from the right side of the truck. Cal/OSHA said a GreenWaste Recovery worker was run over while collecting recyclables in San Jose on March 2. He was making a turn while operating the truck from the right hand side when he fell out of the vehicle. Cal/OSHA’s inspection determined that the... Read More

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