Workers' Compensation News
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LRA Self-Insurance Fund Announces $2.8M Dividend
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11/29/2016
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Louisiana Restaurant Association's self-insurance fund has declared a dividend of $2.8 million for plan participants from certain years, the trade group announced this month.
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Laura M. Brooke Joins Pearson Koutcher, Expanding Practice to N.J.
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11/21/2016
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State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Laura M. Brooke has joined Pearson Koutcher Law as a claimants' attorney who will expand the Pennsylvania-based practice to New Jersey.
Brooke will continue to represent claimants in the Philadelphia area. With her arrival, Pearson Koutcher has opened a new office in Cherry Hill...Read More
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Lipnic Speculated to Take Over Labor Department
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11/17/2016
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Political journalists covering the presidential transition speculate that Donald Trump will choose Victoria Lipnic, one of two Republican commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to head up the Department of Labor.
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L&I Fines Dollar Tree $145K for Stacking Boxes Too High, Other Violations
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11/14/2016
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State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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Washington's Department of Labor and Industries fined Dollar Tree Stores Inc. $145,200 for safety violations at its Aberdeen store.
Inspectors found the storage room was "a crowded jumble of stacked boxes, bundles and containers that weren't secured and could topple over at a...Read More
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Labor Agency Creates Form to Report Workers' Comp Fraud Complaints
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11/03/2016
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State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Wisconsin's labor agency has created an online form for reporting abuse of the workers' compensation system, the state Department of Workforce Development announced this week.
Complaints about employers, insurers, providers and workers may be submitted.
The so-called Worke...Read More
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Lower Hospital Payments Help Stabilize Medical Costs
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10/26/2016
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State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical
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Lower hospital payments per claim have helped stabilize medical payments in North Carolina since 2009 following annual 6% and 7% increases from 2004-09, the Workers Compensation Research Institute said Tuesday.
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L&I Revises Time Period for Vocational Training Option
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10/24/2016
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State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer
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The Washington state Department of Labor & Industries adopted a rule clarifying the time period in which injured workers can decide to use vocational training funds for a plan they developed on their own.
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