Workers' Compensation News
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Lawmaker Seeks to Make Available Public Self-Insurer Data | 06/22/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Bay Area lawmaker is pushing legislation that would allow the Office of Self-Insurance Plans to release information about self-insurance programs run by public agencies throughout California. ...Read More | |||
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Lawyers Concerned After Indictment, New Data on Top-Billing Attorneys | 06/22/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Texas workers' compensation legal community is abuzz with concern after two major developments: A claimants' attorney was indicted on charges of overbilling and fraudulent billing, and a database released by the state shows other lawyers appear to be billing for an unrealistic number ...Read More | |||
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Large Minority of Claims Shops Still Lack URAC Accreditation as Deadline Looms | 06/18/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| With a July 1 deadline looming, only 56% of active utilization review organizations in California’s workers’ comp system had obtained URAC accreditation as required under Senate Bill 1160. ...Read More | |||
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Longmeyer Testifies That Claims Company Got Contract, Even Though Bid Was Much Higher | 06/15/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Illinois-based company retained a claims-management contract for Kentucky's state employee workers' compensation program, even though its bid was $200,000 higher than another firm's offer, the star witness in a bribery trial testified Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
| Liberty Mutual Appoints Waters to Lead National Insurance Specialty Unit | 06/14/2018 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Liberty Mutual has appointed Matt Waters as chief underwriting officer and senior vice president to its National Insurance Specialty unit. He will be responsible for primary and excess products sold to large and mid-sized construction and energy companies. ...Read More | |||
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Lobbyist on Trial for Allegedly Bribing Official on WC Claims Management Contract | 06/13/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A jailed state official is set to testify today against a lobbyist who, prosecutors say, spent thousands of dollars in bribes to win a claims management contract for Kentucky state government's public-employee workers' compensation program. ...Read More | |||
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LASIE Sets Legislative Review Forum for July 11 | 06/05/2018 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers will host an open forum and legislative review July 11 at the Marriott Hotel in Baton Rouge. ...Read More | |||
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Landscaper Pleads Guilty to Double-Dipping Charge | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Southern California man pleaded guilty to one count of felony workers’ compensation fraud after investigators discovered that he worked as a landscaper while receiving disability benefits for an alleged injury that he suffered while working for another landscaping company, according ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass Cancer Presumption Bill, Order PTSD Study | 05/24/2018 | |
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| By: Carrie Miller (correspondent) | |||
| State: NH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Some 28 years after New Hampshire passed the nation’s first presumptive cancer bill, the state’s firefighters may finally be able to begin accessing workers’ comp coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Lien Claimants Make Another Run at Constitutional Challenge to Lien Stay | 05/23/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California's automatic lien stay was born of a desire to impede on the constitutional right of providers to mount a meaningful defense to criminal charges, and the wishes of insurance companies not to pay for liens they believe are inappropriate, according to the latest amended complaint...Read More | |||
