Workers' Compensation News
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NASI: Comp Benefits Hit Lowest Point Since 1980 | 10/05/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Benefits paid to injured workers as a percentage of payroll dropped in 2015 to the lowest point since 1980, a trend that — depending on whom you ask — is either the result of safer workplaces or the whittling away of worker benefits. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Widow of Traveling Employee Killed While Christmas Shopping | 10/05/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals denied a widow’s claim for benefits for the death of a traveling employee who was killed while going Christmas shopping after he finished work for the day. ...Read More | |||
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New Formulary Will Likely Change Opioid Prescribing Rules | 10/03/2017 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Arkansas' new drug formulary will likely include several changes to opioid prescribing rules. The latest draft of the formulary, releas...Read More | |||
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No Work Disability Benefits for State Employee Absent Proof of Impairment of Function | 10/03/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that a state employee failed to prove she had suffered permanent impairment from the latest in a long line of alleged work accidents. ...Read More | |||
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NYSE Begins Delisting Procedures for Patriot National Stock | 10/02/2017 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Patriot National announced Friday that it has received a delisting notice from the New York Stock Exchange because it has failed to meet capitalization rules. ...Read More | |||
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Newspaper Pitched Ad to Rival of Law Firm Skewered by Investigative Piece | 09/29/2017 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Philadelphia plaintiffs’ attorney says a salesman for The Philadelphia Inquirer solicited an ad and suggested he could gain new clients fleeing a workers’ compensation claimants’ firm that was the subject of a negative investigative story. ...Read More | |||
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NAIC to Examine Worker Classification in Gig Economy | 09/25/2017 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| How workers’ comp systems approach the regulation of independent contractors — and the impact of the gig economy on worker classification — are topics that a National Association of Insurance Commissioners working group is planning to tackle in coming months. ...Read More | |||
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Nurse Case Managers Sought to Wean Workers Off Opioids in Pilot Project | 09/25/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: MA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Department of Industrial Accidents has rolled out another phase of its two-year pilot program to combat opioid abuse by fast-tracking injured workers and insurers to mediation. ...Read More | |||
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No Work Disability Award for Employee Fired for Striking Supervisor | 09/21/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that a meatpacking employee who was fired for striking her supervisor was not eligible for a work disability award for an injury that pre-dated the altercation. ...Read More | |||
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New Time Limit Going Into Effect for Submission of Medical Bills | 09/19/2017 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Beginning Oct. 1, medical providers that treat injured workers have 12 months to bill an employer or its insurers for services, the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission reminded stakeholders in a recent ...Read More | |||
