Workers' Compensation News
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Low Pay, More Vacancies for WC Judge Positions | 09/21/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Last year, the Texas Legislature changed the title of workers’ compensation hearing officers to administrative law judges. That may have been an attempt to give the judges the honorific they deserve and smooth over some simmering frustrations, attorneys say. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Proposing 5% Rate Decrease for 2019 | 09/20/2018 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Washington employers will enjoy a 5% reduction in workers’ compensation costs next year, the Department of Labor Industries announced. ...Read More | |||
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Legislative Panel Approves Former Hartford Mayor as WC Commissioner | 09/18/2018 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A legislative panel has approved former Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra to be a workers' compensation commissioner. ...Read More | |||
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Liability MSAs Explored in White Paper | 09/14/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| What to expect as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services moves toward a Medicare set-aside process for liability settlements is the topic of a new white paper from Tower MSA Partners. ...Read More | |||
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Laboratory Owner, Marketer Sentenced in Kickback Scheme | 09/14/2018 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The owner of a medical testing laboratory and his marketer were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for paying $1.37 million in kickbacks to a Maryland pain management practice in exchange for conducting urine specimen tests that were paid for by federal health care programs and private insurers....Read More | |||
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L&I Proposes Rules to Clarify Self-Insurer Claims-Handling Obligations | 09/13/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has proposed rules that would give self-insured employers some of the additional claims-handling authority lawmakers refused to provide over the last two sessions. ...Read More | |||
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Latest Round of Formulary Revisions Focuses on Chronic Pain | 09/10/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Opioid antidote naloxone has been added to the California workers’ comp formulary as a drug that is exempt from prospective utilization review, in just one of dozens of changes to the formulary that will take effect Oct. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Commissioner Cites Garment Manufacturers for Skirting Registration Law | 09/06/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Four garment contractors who lacked workers’ compensation insurance were among six cited by state labor officials for trying to skirt state law by sharing a registration, the Labor Commissioner’s Office announced Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
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Lack of Ergonomic Work Station Wasn't Cause of Employee's Need for Surgeries | 09/06/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld a finding that the lack of ergonomics at a clerical worker’s office was not the cause of her need for multiple surgeries. ...Read More | |||
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Lodging, Meal Reimbursement Set to Increase | 09/05/2018 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division announced that lodging and meal reimbursement rates for injured workers who have to travel to medical appointments will increase Oct. 1. ...Read More | |||
