Workers' Compensation News
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Man Who Drove Trucks for Farm Was Agricultural Employee, Appellate Court Decides | 10/20/2017 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: IN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Indiana man injured while working on a farm cannot collect workers’ compensation benefits because, as in 11 other states, the Hoosier State excludes agricultural employees from its workers’ compensation scheme. ...Read More | |||
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Maximum Benefit Rates Increased by 1.8% | 10/20/2017 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Arkansas’ maximum total disability rate will increase 1.8% to $673 per week on Jan. 1 due to an increase in the state’s average weekly wage. ...Read More | |||
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Mail Carrier Who Accepted Bus Driver Job While Injured Sentenced to Probation | 10/18/2017 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A 24-year-old mail carrier must pay roughly $4,000 after pleading guilty to charges stemming from accusations that he took a job with Washington, D.C.’s bus service while out on a work injury, ...Read More | |||
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McLeod Occupational Health to Host Seminar | 10/17/2017 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| McLeod Occupational Health, in partnership with insurance defense law firm McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, will host a seminar on workers’ compensation on Nov. 3. ...Read More | |||
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Mary Elizabeth Butler Appointed Insurance Department Chief of Staff | 10/16/2017 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelan has appointed Mary Elizabeth Butler as the insurance department's chief of staff. In her new role,...Read More | |||
| Mitchell Invests in Telehealth Company | 10/13/2017 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mitchell, a provider of technology and information services for the property and casualty industry, has invested in telehealth company Consumer Health Connections. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed. Consumer Health Connections builds cloud-based t...Read More | |||
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Mark Bilger Joins York as Chief Information Officer | 10/12/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| York Risk Services Group has hired Mark Bilger as its chief information officer. ...Read More | |||
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Marketer Said to Be Fishing for Deal Long Before Feds Started Busting Kickback Rings | 10/10/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| More than four years before federal prosecutors took down a Southern California hospital executive who was paying off a corrupt state senator, an ex-convict set up a meeting with an insurance company investigator to discuss trading inside information for immunity. ...Read More | |||
| Meeting Between NWCC Officials, VR Providers Set for Oct. 20 | 10/06/2017 | ||
| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The next meeting between vocational rehabilitation service providers and Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court employees is scheduled for Oct. 20. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. at the court's administrative offices, 1221 N St., Suite 402, in Lincoln. At the last meeting...Read More | |||
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Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Pain Cream Scheme | 10/06/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Pennsylvania pharmaceutical sales representative has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud the military's health care program by submitting fraudulent claims for compounded pain creams, the U.S. Department of Justice ...Read More | |||
