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Industry Groups, Worker's Comp Experts Line Up Against Option 06/21/2016
By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter)
State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
The plaintiff’s team in a lawsuit that questions the constitutionality of the Oklahoma Option is turning to a group of heavy hitters to bolster its claim that the state’s workers’ compensation opt-out plan deprives injured workers of due process rights. ...Read More
 
 

Injured Worker Caught Moonlighting for Pest Control Company 06/21/2016
State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
A Grove City man who was collecting workers’ compensation benefits must pay his employer back after state investigators confirmed he was secretly working another job. ...Read More
 
 
Industrial Commission Schedules Annual Claims Seminar 06/17/2016
State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
The Arizona Industrial Commission will host its annual Claims Seminar at the Hyatt Regency in Phoenix Aug. 11-12. The seminar will include a treatment guidelines workshop with instruction on how to use the Official Disability Guidelines, which the commission adopted earlier this year and ...Read More
 
 

Insurers and Their Attorneys Praise Denial of Reimbursement for Compounded Drugs 06/16/2016
By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter)
State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
Insurers and defense attorneys are hailing a recent decision by the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings to deny reimbursement for compounded medications, typically creams used to treat pain or heal scars.  ...Read More
 
 
Insurity Acquires Tropics Software Technologies 06/14/2016
State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Insurity Inc., a provider of insurance processing and data analytics services, announced on Monday its acquisition of Tropics Software Technologies Inc. The deal closed on Friday. Terms were not disclosed. Based in Sarasota, Florida, Tropics is an insurance software firm that focu...Read More
 
 
Inflatable Pig, Cat Used to Protest Alleged Worker Misclassification 06/09/2016
State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
A carpenters’ organization is using 10-foot-tall inflatable animals to call attention to a construction company’s alleged failure to provide proper workers’ compensation coverage and misclassification of workers as independent contractors in New Haven. The New England Re...Read More
 
 

Industrial Commission Issues Memo on Security Deposits 06/07/2016
State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
The Idaho Industrial Commission issued a memorandum stating work comp insurance ...Read More
 
 

Insurer Handling San Bernardino Attack Claims Seeks $4.5M From County 06/03/2016
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
The company that provided workers’ compensation insurance for Inland Regional Center, the site of the San Bernardino mass terror shooting in December, is seeking more than $4.5 million from the county for negligence and says it has spent more than $23,000 on claims so far, ...Read More
 
 

Insurers Must Cover Deterrent Drugs to Help Opioid Users Kick Addiction 06/02/2016
State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
Health insurers in Connecticut must cover FDA-approved opioid abuse-deterrent drugs prescribed for pain management, the state insurance commissioner says in a new bulletin. ...Read More
 
 

Injured Worker Who Runs Dog-Training Business Accused of Fraud 05/27/2016
By: Risk Media Solutions
State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
A Pleasant Glen woman was charged on Wednesday with running a dog-training business for more than five years while collecting workers’ compensation indemnity benefits from a workplace injury at another employer, ...Read More
 
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