Workers' Compensation News
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J.M. Wilson Appoints Assistant P&C Underwriter in Portage Office
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08/15/2014
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State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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J.M. Wilson, a managing general agency and surplus lines broker, announced Thursday the appointment of Samantha Johnston as assistant property and casualty underwriter at its Portage, Michigan, office.
Wilson is responsible for assisting the underwriting department with setting up propert...Read More
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Judge Declares Exclusive Remedy of Comp Act Unconstitutional
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08/14/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Miami trial court judge on Wednesday declared the exclusive remedy provision of Florida's Workers' Compensation Act facially unconstitutional as a matter of law − the latest instance of increasing judicial scrutiny that has worried employers and energized claimant attorneys.
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Judge Insisting AG Respond to Constitutional Challenge
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07/28/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Florida state judge is asking the state attorney general to show cause why he shouldn't declare the exclusive remedy of the state's workers' compensation scheme unconstitutional.
Judge Jorge Cueto on Thursday gave Attorney General Pam Bondi's office 10 days to respond to...Read More
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Judicial Decisions Eroding Reforms, Attorney Warns
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07/22/2014
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Source: Albuquerque Journal
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State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Medical
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Recent court decisions threaten to undermine the stability of workers’ compensation reforms passed in 1990 during a special session of the New Mexico Legislature, attorney Marshall Martin said in a column for the Albuquerque Journal.
Most recently, the state Supreme Court in Fowler ...Read More
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Judge Delivers Scathing Rebuke of IMR
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07/16/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Southern California judge, in striking down an independent medical review decision and ordering the injured worker to receive the denied treatment, joined the chorus of detractors who say the new administrative process for resolving treatment disputes is creating delays and improperly denying c...Read More
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Jurisdiction an Issue after former Worker Files Suit against Commission
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07/15/2014
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State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A lawsuit filed against the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission will be adjudicated in the … Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission?
Attorneys, including the one who filed suit, say there’s no way that can happen. Yet, the law appears to give the new admi...Read More
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Judge Blocks One Restriction of Opioid Zohydro, Upholds Another
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07/11/2014
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State: MA | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A federal judge blocked one emergency regulation in Massachusetts that limits access to the opioid painkiller Zohydro ER but upheld another rule.U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel ruled Tuesday that the state Board of Registration in Medicine's rule that the drug coul...Read More
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Judge Takes Leave amid Grand Jury Charges of Workers' Comp Fraud
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07/10/2014
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State: NY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A village judge in Seneca County, New York, is taking a leave of absence after a grand jury accused him of lying about being attacked to receive workers' compensation benefits.Roger Barto pleaded not guilty Monday to the five felony and four misdemeanor charges f...Read More
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Jopari Announces Partnership with ChartSwap
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06/24/2014
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Other
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Two companies providing claim digitization services have formed a strategic partnership that will allow further connection between medical record requesters and providers, according to a ...Read More
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Jim Kelly to Keynote WCI Annual Conference
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06/20/2014
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State: FL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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NFL Hall of Famer Jim Kelly will be the keynote speaker at the Workers’ Compensation Institute’s 69th annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference and 26th annual Safety & Health Conference, scheduled for Aug. 17-20 at the Orlando World Center Marriott.The co...Read More
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