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Workers' Compensation News

 
Next Level Administrators Promotes Wagner to VP of Claims 01/13/2017
State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor
Next Level Administrators, a claims administration provider based in Bradenton, Florida, announced Thursday the promotion of Lisa Wagner to vice president of claims. ...Read More
 
 

Neurosurgeon Earns Long Sentence for Unnecessary Spinal Procedures 01/12/2017
By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
A former neurosurgeon will serve nearly 20 years in prison for a self-dealing scheme involving spinal implants that started in California and moved to Michigan. ...Read More
 
 

NCAA Hit With Another Class Action for Student-Athlete Concussions 01/12/2017
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
A group of former college football players this week hit the National Collegiate Athletic Association with another proposed class action over their claimed concussions and head injuries in Indiana. ...Read More
 
 
Normandy Insurance Expands Into State 01/11/2017
State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Normandy Insurance Co., a Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier, is now offering coverage in Georgia. Normandy also brought all claims operations in-house last year and has been assigned a Demotech Financial Stability Rating of A, or exceptional. Normandy’s Senio...Read More
 
 
New Benefit Rates Announced Based on AWW of $1,052 01/11/2017
State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer
The Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission has released the 2017 rates for maximum death and disability benefits. For temporary total disability, the award is two-thirds of the employee’s average weekly wage, not to exceed 100% of the state’s average weekly wage of $1...Read More
 
 

No Labor Law Claim for Worker Injured by Object Falling From Moving Truck 01/09/2017
Source: WorkCompCentral
State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
A New York appellate court ruled that a worker who fell from the back of a moving pickup and was injured by an object that fell with him did not have a viable claim under Labor Law Section 240(1). ...Read More
 
 
NCCI Proposes Basic Manual Revisions to Improve Understanding 01/09/2017
State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
The National Council on Compensation Insurance has proposed changes to its Basic Manual for Workers’ Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance, the Texas Department of Insurance said Friday. The changes would clarify and enhance Rule 1, Classification Assignment, and Rule 2, Pr...Read More
 
 
NCOIL Spring Meeting Slated for March 3-5 in New Orleans 01/06/2017
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators has scheduled its spring meeting for March 3-5 in New Orleans. The conference, at the Downtown Marriott, will include a meeting of NCOIL’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Committee from 11 a.m.-noon on March 4. The Property and ...Read More
 
 
NYIA Names New Officers and Directors 01/06/2017
State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
The New York Insurance Association announced the election of six new officers and directors on Thursday. Elected to one-year terms that end Dec. 31 were Chairman Steven Coffey, president and chief executive officer of Broome Co-operative Insurance Co. in Vestal; First Vice Chair Elizabeth...Read More
 
 

New Arbitrator Assigned Predecessor's Cases 01/05/2017
State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor
Michael Glaub, a newly appointed arbitrator for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, has been assigned the docket of former arbitrator Robert Williams of Cook County. ...Read More
 
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