Workers' Compensation News
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MedExpress to Open Two Clinics in Texas | 10/02/2017 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| MedExpress Urgent Care is expanding into Texas this month, with clinics that will be connected to Walgreens stores. The new centers will be in Da...Read More | |||
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Maximum Weekly Total Disability Benefit Increases 5.8% | 10/02/2017 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the new maximum total disability weekly compensation rate for fiscal 2018. ...Read More | |||
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MarketScout Launches $25M Insurance Technology Venture Fund | 09/28/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| MarketScout, a Dallas-based insurance exchange and managing general agent, has formed an insurance technology venture fund. ...Read More | |||
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Maximum Weekly Benefit Will Remain at $913 | 09/27/2017 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Division of Workers’ Compensation has set a new average weekly wage, and maximum and minimum benefits, for dates of injury between Oct. 1 and Sept. 30, 2018. ...Read More | |||
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Medical Ethicist Says Attorney- and Doctor-Owned Pharmacy is Conflict of Interest | 09/26/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A mail-order pharmacy owned by a Pennsylvania claimants’ law firm and a group of physicians who refer injured workers there for prescription drugs is a blatant breach of medical ethics, a bioethicist said Monday. ...Read More | |||
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Medical Expert Opinion Testimony Was Sufficient to Support PTD Award | 09/25/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to an award of permanent total disability benefits for a back injury, as the opinions of two medical experts were sufficient evidence to support the award. ...Read More | |||
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Mid-Atlantic Firm Franklin & Prokopik Hires 2 Attorneys In Baltimore Office | 09/22/2017 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Mid-Atlantic business law firm Franklin & Prokopik has hired two attorneys in its Baltimore office, the Daily Record reports. ...Read More | |||
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Medication-Assisted Treatment for Addiction Raises Questions | 09/21/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| As treatment of injured workers’ opioid addiction is finding its way into more workers’ comp claims, the industry’s next debate could turn out to be over what type of addiction treatment is best. ...Read More | |||
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Medicaid Can Pursue Full Settlement Amounts Starting Oct. 1 | 09/20/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| State Medicaid systems are expected to become much more aggressive in trying to collect money they’re owed from workers’ comp settlements, as the result of a federal law that takes effect on Oct. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Medicare Advantage Plans Going After Attorneys for Conditional Payment Recovery | 09/19/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| Plaintiff attorneys working on workers’ comp settlements have something new to worry about: Medicare Advantage Plans are now coming after them if a medical treatment conditionally paid for by Medicare is not reimbursed as required. ...Read More | |||
