Workers' Compensation News
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Institute Hosts Webinar on Coping With Drug Price Inflation
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11/19/2015
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute is hosting a webinar on Dec. 3 regarding the value of a PBM in mitigating average wholesale price inflation in the workers’ compensation industry.
The webinar’s two speakers will be from Helios: Chief Clinical Officer Tron Emptage and ...Read More
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ICA Says Employers Can't Avoid Fee Awards by 'Piggybacking' Issues
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11/16/2015
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Hawaii's Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that an employer can raise a challenge to a finding by the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations before the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board without becoming a cross-appellant, but that it cannot avoid liability for an award of att...Read More
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Insurance Commissioner Approves 1.9% Premium Level Increase
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11/13/2015
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State: IN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Indiana Department of Insurance has approved a 1.3% increase in loss costs for the voluntary and assigned risk markets effective Jan. 1, which results in a 1.9% increase in premium levels, according to the state Compensation Rating Bureau.
The Rating Bureau and the National Council on...Read More
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ICA Soliciting Legislative Proposals for 2016
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11/11/2015
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State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Industrial Commission of Arizona is inviting the public to recommend legislation for the upcoming session at a Nov. 12 meeting in Phoenix.
The 2015 legislative shareholder's meeting is an opportunity for people who work with the commission to comment on issues and propose bills fo...Read More
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Insys Wins Coming and Going with Fentanyl, Naloxone Formulations
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11/10/2015
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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The federal government gave the green light to fast track development of an opioid overdose antidote to a pharmaceutical company that earlier this year paid Oregon more than $1 million for marketing its fentanyl spray for off-label uses and faces similar investigations in other jurisdictions...Read More
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Insurance Dept. Proposes Rule Amendments
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11/10/2015
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Texas Insurance Department on Monday proposed amendments to regulations that establish assessment rates on insurers and self-insured groups that provide workers' compensation insurance to pay for the cost of solvency examinations.
Part of the proposed regulations implement House B...Read More
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Insurance Commissioner Approves 3.9% Loss-Cost Reduction
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11/09/2015
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State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced Friday that she has approved a 3.9% reduction in voluntary market loss costs and a nearly 8% reduction in assigned risk plan rates.
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Ignoring Safety Order Is Not 'Willful Misconduct'
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11/04/2015
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State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A worker who disregarded his supervisor's instructions on how to descend a cellular-telephone tower did not commit the type of willful misconduct that would allow his employer to deny workers' compensation benefits, the Georgia 3rd Division Court of Appeals ruled.
Case: Burdette v...Read More
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