Workers' Compensation News
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Missouri Will Finally Get PDMP but Takes Own Approach | 07/19/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: MO | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Eric Greitens on Monday signed an executive order to create a prescription drug monitoring program in Missouri, the only state that does not yet have such a system, which is widely regarded as a key tool in combatting the opioid epidemic. ...Read More | |||
| Marsh Webinar to Detail Comp Legal Challenges | 07/19/2017 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The status and implications of legal challenges to the constitutionality of workers’ compensation statutes in different states will be a topic covered during a webinar today hosted by Marsh. The free webinar, which begins at 2 p.m. Eastern time, will also discuss recent and potentia...Read More | |||
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MEMIC Names Kelly Barden Corporate Communications Director | 07/18/2017 | |
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| State: ME | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The MEMIC Group has promoted Kelly Barden to director of corporate communications. ...Read More | |||
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Medicare Set-Aside Re-Review Offers Another Bite at Settlement Apple | 07/13/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now offering to re-evaluate Medicare set-aside amounts that it has already approved in cases where medical cost projections have substantially change, a step that may allow more workers’ compensation claims to move to settlement. ...Read More | |||
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Maximum Benefit Rate to Rise 0.78% Next Year | 07/13/2017 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New Jersey's injured workers will see the cap on their weekly benefits increase by $7 next year. The Division of Workers' Compensation announced...Read More | |||
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Medical Advisory Committee Continues Review of Spinal Cord Stimulators | 07/11/2017 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Oregon’s Medical Advisory Committee will continue its review of whether spinal cord stimulators should be compensable under the state’s workers’ compensation law, during an Aug. 4. Meeting. ...Read More | |||
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Maximum Monthly Benefit Increases to $3,802.17 | 07/07/2017 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Maximum monthly disability compensation increased to $3,802.17 for injuries sustained on or after July 1 to correspond with an increase in the state’s average weekly wage, the Nevada Division of Industrial Relations announced. ...Read More | |||
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Maximum Weekly Benefit Rises Less Than 1% | 07/03/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The maximum weekly benefit rate for workers' compensation claimants in New York rose by less than 1% over the weekend. The New York State Worker...Read More | |||
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Matrix Absence Management Acquires Partners Claims Services | 06/30/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Matrix Absence Management has acquired Partners Claims Services Inc., a third-party administrator in Seattle. Partners brings claims management exp...Read More | |||
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Medical Marijuana Called an Issue for Case Managers to Watch | 06/30/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Workers’ comp case managers should start taking a closer look at medical marijuana as an alternative to opioids for managing injured workers’ pain, a One Call Care Management vice president told an audience at the 2017 Case Management Society of America conference in Austin, Texas, th...Read More | |||
