Workers' Compensation News
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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 | |||
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Medical Pot Dispensaries Lose Comp Coverage Ahead of Opening | 06/30/2017 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hawaii's workers' compensation insurer of last resort has canceled policies for seven soon-to-open medical marijuana dispensaries because the federal government still considers the drug illegal, ...Read More | |||
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MEM Hires Three Executives | 06/28/2017 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Missouri Employers Mutual has hired three executives, the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds announced in its latest ne...Read More | |||
| Maximum Weekly Benefits Increase for Injured Workers | 06/27/2017 | ||
| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The maximum weekly benefits paid to injured workers and those who are unemployed will increase starting Sunday, Iowa Workforce Development says. The increase in benefits results from rising wages covered by unemployment insurance, with the average annual wage for insured Iowa workers up t...Read More | |||
| Mental Illness the Subject of IAIABC Podcast | 06/23/2017 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions has released a podcast titled, “Invisible Illness: Mental Health and Workers' Compensation.” In the podcast, which is free and available to the public, IAIABC Executive Director Jennifer Wolf Horej...Read More | |||
