Workers' Compensation News
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Judge Expedites Hearing in QME Certification Dispute | 10/25/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Medical providers who say the Division of Workers' Compensation used underground regulations to summarily deny their recertification as qualified medical evaluators won’t have to wait for the New Year to get their day in court. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Postpones Sentencing of Drobot Jr. Until February | 10/19/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal judge in Southern California approved a third request to delay sentencing of Michael R. Drobot, pushing the date back from Nov. 17 to Feb. 16. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Orders State to Refund Money Swept Out of Work Comp Fund | 10/19/2017 | |
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| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Kansas county judge has ordered the state to repay a little more than $3 million that it swept out of its Workers’ Compensation Fee Fund and other funds financed by user fees to balance the state budget during the height of the recession in 2009, the ...Read More | |||
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John Watts Named CEO at Paradigm Outcomes | 10/18/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| John Watts Jr. has been named chief executive officer of Paradigm Outcomes, a catastrophic-care management company. Watts succeeds Jim Hudak, who s...Read More | |||
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Jackson Woman Charged With Collecting Benefits While Working | 10/13/2017 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Jackson woman faces up to five years in prison and $15,000 in fines over allegations that she committed one count of workers’ compensation fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Joseph Berardo Named CEO at Concordia Care | 10/11/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Concordia Care Inc. has named Joseph Berardo Jr. as chief executive officer and announced an expansion of its management team. ...Read More | |||
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Jason Reese Joins RIC Insurance as Business Development Manager | 09/26/2017 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| RIC Insurance General Agency has hired Jason Reese as business development manager, further expanding the agency’s sales and marketing team. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Didn't Need to Recuse Herself After Inquiring Into Qualifications of Potential Witness | 09/26/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a trial judge did not need to recuse herself from presiding over a retaliatory discharge action after she made a telephone call to a university department director concerning a potential expert witness' qualifications. ...Read More | |||
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Jacob Lazarovic Joins Amaxx as Medical Adviser | 09/15/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Dr. Jacob Lazarovic, formerly chief medical officer at Broadspire, has joined Amaxx as a medical adviser. ...Read More | |||
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Judge: Class-Action Settlement Does Not Bar Litigation Against FairPay Client | 09/11/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court has allowed a hospital to proceed with fee-dispute litigation against a client of the bill reviewer FairPay, holding that the terms of a class-action settlement that FairPay entered into do not bar all litigation. ...Read More | |||
