Workers' Compensation News
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Officer Can't Claim Coverage Under Public Safety Employee Benefits Act for Training Injury | 03/19/2019 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court last week ruled that a police officer who suffered a career-ending injury during a training exercise was not entitled to coverage under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. ...Read More | |||
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Ohio AG Files Suit Against OptumRX Over BWC Drug Prices | 03/19/2019 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| One month after he demanded that OptumRx, one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers, refund more than $15 million to the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, the state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company. ...Read More | |||
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Off-Duty Firefighter Coverage, Insurance Industry Bills Scheduled for Hearing | 03/12/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly Insurance Committee will hear testimony on bills that would allow workers’ compensation coverage for firefighters injured in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and exempt carriers and their agents from provisions of a new consumer privacy law that takes effect next year....Read More | |||
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One Call Cuts About 2% of Staff | 03/05/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Workers’ compensation medical care management firm One Call laid off about 2% of its workforce, the company confirmed on Monday. ...Read More | |||
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Online Direct Insurer Pie Expands Into Four More States | 02/25/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Pie Insurance announced last week that is has expanded into four additional states: Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico. Pie now offers...Read More | |||
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OSHA Cites Manufacturer for Alleged Combustible Dust, Arc Flash Hazards | 02/22/2019 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A paper-products manufacturer in Natchez, Mississippi, has been cited for allegedly exposing workers to dangers including electrical hazards and accumulations of combustible paper dust. ...Read More | |||
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Orthopedic Surgeon Paying $85K to Resolve Kickback Allegations | 02/22/2019 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Tulsa orthopedic surgeon has agreed to pay $84,666.42 to resolve allegations that he accepted illegal kickbacks from a compounding pharmacy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma announced. ...Read More | |||
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Ohio AG Asks OptumRx for $16 Million for WC Drug Overcharges | 02/20/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Pharmacy benefit managers, part of a multibillion-dollar niche industry that evolved to hold down medication costs in America's complex health care landscape, are now facing increasing criticism from state and federal regulators that they're not providing the cost savings they promis...Read More | |||
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Out-of-Possession Property Lessee Has No Labor Law Liability to Worker | 02/07/2019 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker could not maintain a Labor Law claim against the corporation that had subleased a property to the company that hired his employer to perform construction work. ...Read More | |||
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Oxycodone Distributor Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison | 02/06/2019 | |
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| State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Wisconsin man who asked his customers to call him “Mr. White” or “Ghost” has been sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and using a firearm to further the conspiracy. ...Read More | |||
