Workers' Compensation News
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L&I Updates Classification Codes
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01/09/2015
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State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries adopted changes to classifications for sports teams and spas and amended language to clarify definitions of different farming operations that will take effect July 1.
The changes adopted languag...Read More
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Labor Dept. Accepting Safety Award Applications through Feb. 15
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01/09/2015
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Source: North Carolina Department of Labor
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State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Other
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The North Carolina Department of Labor is accepting applications from businesses that qualify for a workplace safety award, the department announced in a release.
The department issues safety awards to companies with above-average worker safety and health programs. In order to qualify for...Read More
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L.A. County Implements PCIS ClaimsVision
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01/07/2015
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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P&C Insurance Systems Inc. announced that the County of Los Angeles is implementing the company's ClaimsVision program to manage county employees' workers' compensation claims.
The program will serve as a centralized workers' compensation claims system for the county&#...Read More
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Lead and Copper Exposure Brings $171,600 in OSHA Fines against Peoria Company
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01/07/2015
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State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing $171,600 in fines against a Peoria, Illinois, company for exposing workers to dangerous levels of lead and copper dust during brass finishing and grinding work at its Peoria facility.
After an inspection on June 24, 2014,...Read More
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Lost-Time Claims Dropped in 2013, Accomplishments Report Shows
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01/06/2015
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The number of lost-time workers’ compensation claims in Florida decreased by nearly 5,000 claims in 2013, and the rate of lost-time claims fell by nearly one per 1,000 employees, according to the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s Results and Accomplishments Report for 2014....Read More
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Lawmaker Seeks to Lift Statutory Limit for Tobacco Claims
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01/06/2015
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Bronx, New York, lawmaker who contends it takes years to detect injuries from secondhand smoke, has renewed a bid to exempt related occupational disease claims from New York's two-year statute of limitations on workers' compensation claims.
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Lawsuits Challenge Maximus Labor Practices, Propriety of Medicare Bill Reviews
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12/31/2014
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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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As Maximus Federal Services prepares for at least another three years as the provider of independent medical- and bill-review services to California's workers' compensation system, the company is defending itself in federal courts against allegations that it violated federal labor laws an...Read More
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Lawsuit Alleges EK Health, SCIF Used UR to Block H-Wave Treatment
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12/30/2014
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Applicants’ attorneys and some physicians have long criticized utilization review and independent medical review as tools that employers and insurers use to deny needed medical treatment to injured workers. That issue is coming to a head as utilization-review provider EK Health and the Stat...Read More
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