Workers' Compensation News
| Lionmark Safety Director Named to Workers' Comp Board | 07/28/2016 | ||
| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Joe Reichmuth, corporate safety director for Lionmark Construction Cos. in St. Louis, has been named to the Missouri Workers’ Compensation Determinations Review Board. Reichmuth, of Fenton, also is equal employment officer for Lionmark and previously was a safety inspector...Read More | |||
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Labor Dept. Cites Cleaning Contractors for Work Comp, Labor Violations | 07/26/2016 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Department of Labor issued stop-work orders at 18 ShopRite, Stop and Shop and Whole Foods stores for a variety of labor law violations by cleaning contractors, including failure to provide workers' compensation insurance. ...Read More | |||
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Leave-of-Absence Compliance Is Topic of Webinar | 07/21/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Reed Group is hosting a one-hour webinar on Aug. 31 on compliance with leave-of-absence laws. The webinar, which will begin at 10 a.m. Mountain ...Read More | |||
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Labor Department Adopts Updated Fee Schedule | 07/14/2016 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Montana Department of Labor and Industry increased the base rates for inpatient hospital services as well as the conversion factors used to calculate reimbursement for most medical goods and services. ...Read More | |||
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Lawsuit Claims State Perpetuates Gender Discrimination in Comp System | 07/07/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State regulators not only turned a blind eye to “the gender discrimination rampant in California’s workers’ compensation system” but affirmatively contribute to bias against injured women, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Committee Passes Apportionment, Fraud Bills | 06/30/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations on Wednesday passed bills that supporters say will end gender-based discrimination in apportionment decisions and reduce medical fraud in California’s workers’ compensation system. ...Read More | |||
| Lawsuits Challenge Governor's Vetoes and Reorganization of Workers' Comp Board | 06/30/2016 | ||
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The same Kentucky judge who is presiding over a dispute about Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's purge of the Workers' Compensation Nominating Commission has delayed ruling on a Democratic lawmaker’s request to exclude evidence from his separate lawsuit against the governor. House...Read More | |||
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Lawmaker Amends Bill Requiring Suspension for Doctors Convicted of Fraud | 06/28/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation would be required to hold a hearing before suspending providers convicted of fraud under a recently amended bill the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations is scheduled to hear Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
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Law Firm Employee's Fall in Parking Garage Wasn't Compensable | 06/28/2016 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a worker's fall while walking from a public parking garage on her way to her office was not compensable. ...Read More | |||
| Law Firm's New Haven Office Adds 2 Work Comp Attorneys | 06/28/2016 | ||
| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Law Offices of Carter Mario Injury Lawyers has added two attorneys who specialize in workers' compensation to the firm's New Haven office. Joseph Cogguillo III and Christopher Holland joined the firm's growing workers' compensation team earlier this year, Carter Mario ...Read More | |||
