Workers' Compensation News
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Miami Files Suit Seeking 'Disgorgement' by Opioid Manufacturers | 04/19/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The City of Miami has filed suit against major drug manufacturers alleging they were unjustly enriched by an epidemic of abuse that increased the city’s health care and workers’ compensation costs, and strained emergency services as rescue workers responded to 1,717 overdoses in a sin...Read More | |||
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Municipal Insurance Pool Names City Councilwoman to Board | 04/10/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Patricia Johnson The Florida Municipal I...Read More | |||
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Man Disabled but Still Installing Swimming Pools, Investigation Shows | 04/06/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former worker at the New York Thruway Authority has pleaded guilty to petit larceny after defrauding the state's workers' compensation system of more than $5,200, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Medical Transport Business Lacked Comp Coverage, Prosecutors Allege | 04/02/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The owner of a medical transportation business in Broome County, New York, has been arrested on suspicion of running the company without workers’ compensation insurance or a valid taxi business license. ...Read More | |||
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Mine Worker Can't Collect Retraining Incentive Benefit From Employer | 03/29/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a mine worker was not entitled to a retraining incentive benefit from his employer, since he had already settled a pneumoconiosis claim against, and received a retraining incentive from, a prior employer. ...Read More | |||
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Meningitis Presumption for Forestry Firefighters, Coverage for Clinical Counselors Proposed | 03/27/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Firefighters for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection who contract meningitis would be presumed to have a compensable injury, under recent amendments to an Assembly Bill. ...Read More | |||
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Mother of Worker's Child Should Have Been Granted More Time for Discovery | 03/20/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that the mother of a deceased worker’s minor child should have been granted additional time to conduct discovery into the compensability of the worker’s death. ...Read More | |||
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Michael Carmody Moves Up to Claims Director at MEMIC | 03/20/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Workers' compensation insurer The MEMIC Group has promoted Michael Carmody to the position of claims director for the Northeast Region, which includes MEMIC’s New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York offices. ...Read More | |||
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Medical Inflation a Growing Threat to Comp Profitability, Speaker Says | 03/16/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
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| LAS VEGAS — As workers’ comp premium rates have been on a downward trajectory since early 2015, a rating bureau official said on Thursday that increases in medical inflation could provide a clue as to when rates will rise once again. ...Read More | |||
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MSF Board Approves 8% Rate Cut | 03/13/2018 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Montana State Fund’s board of directors approved an 8% reduction in premium rate levels for 2018. ...Read More | |||
