Workers' Compensation News
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Non-Subscribing Employer Can Compel Arbitration on Worker's Negligence Claim | 12/24/2015 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a non-subscribing employer was entitled to force its injured employee to arbitrate his negligence claim against it. ...Read More | |||
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New Vice President Joins Alliant's Miami Beach Office | 12/22/2015 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Alliant Insurance Services, a specialty insurance brokerage firm, has announced that Jason Behnke has joined its Alliant Americas division as vice president. He will work from the company’s Miami Beach office. ...Read More | |||
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No Additional TTD for Worker after BWC Expanded Scope of His Claim | 12/21/2015 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Industrial Commission to deny a truck driver's request for additional temporary total disabili...Read More | |||
| NYSIF Appoints 2 to Investments Division | 12/21/2015 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Insurance Fund has appointed Don McHugh as chief credit officer and Kedar Timblo as chief risk officer in its Investments Division, NYSIF said in the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds newsletter. ...Read More | |||
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Nine Arrested in $24.6 Million Interpreter Billing Scheme | 12/18/2015 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Department of Insurance on Thursday reported nine people were arrested for allegedly submitting to workers' compensation carriers and sel...Read More | |||
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NCCI Projects Fee Schedule Changes Would Increase Costs by 0.4% | 12/18/2015 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance projects changes to Nevada's Medical Fee Schedule that will increase payments for ambulatory s...Read More | |||
| NCCI Proposing Audit Noncompliance Charge | 12/17/2015 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Employers that refuse to allow their workers' compensation insurer to audit their payroll could be forced to pay an audit noncompliance charge that might double their premium under a rule proposed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. The Texas Department of Insuranc...Read More | |||
| New Maximum Weekly Rate Announced | 12/17/2015 | ||
| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A new maximum weekly compensation rate in South Carolina was set at a business meeting Tuesday of the state's Workers' Compensation Commission. The new rate -- two thirds of the average weekly wage in the year ending June 2015 -- is $784.03, an increase of just...Read More | |||
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New Legal Category of Independent Worker with Access to Benefits Proposed | 12/14/2015 | |
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| By: John Breslin (Eastern Bureau Chief) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| On-demand workers using smartphone apps to source jobs could have access to workers' compensation benefits under a plan advocating a new legal category of w...Read More | |||
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New Fraud Prosecutor Named | 12/11/2015 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Christopher Iu C...Read More | |||
