Workers' Compensation News
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One Call Names Rone Baldwin CEO as Dale Wolf Retires | 02/05/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| One Call, a workers’ comp medical care management company, has named Rone Baldwin as its chief executive officer, succeeding Dale Wolf, who is retiring. ...Read More | |||
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OCDA Charges Four More in Referral Scheme | 02/04/2019 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Editor's Note: Charges against all defendants reported in this article were dismissed in July 2023. Southern California prosecutors charged four more people with participating in the widespread capping scheme involving Providence Scheduling, including tw...Read More | |||
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OSHA's Electronic Reporting Requirements Remain in Flux | 02/04/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Despite last month’s rollback of federal requirements for businesses to electronically submit workplace injury records, the reversal is now facing legal challenges, and at least one state — California — could potentially take action to keep the requirements alive. ...Read More | |||
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O'Connor Law Hires James O'Connor as Associate | 01/30/2019 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Pennsylvania law firm Michael J. O'Connor & Associates has added attorney James M. O’Connor as an associate in the firm’s Frackville office. ...Read More | |||
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Old Republic Net Income Plummets After Accounting Rule Change | 01/28/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Old Republic International Corp. reported a $106.5 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2018, but still ended the year with $370.5 million in profits. ...Read More | |||
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One Call Denies Referring Patients to Cheapest Providers | 01/23/2019 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| One Call denies referring California injured workers only to chiropractors offering the biggest discounts, saying in court filings that it uses a “proprietary scoring system” to decide which chiropractors will see the most patients. ...Read More | |||
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Occ Docs Say Integrating Work Comp, General Health Care Deserves Closer Look | 01/18/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| With health care reform is expected to be a hot topic for lawmakers in Sacramento in coming months, an occupational medicine group is proposing that workers’ compensation medical care be integrated with non-occupational care. ...Read More | |||
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OIEC Wants Lawmakers to Extend Deadline for Filing Appeals | 01/10/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Forty-five days may be a standard time frame in many legal proceedings in Texas and around the country. But for injured workers who don’t yet have a lawyer but want to take their claim to court, a month and a half is simply not enough time, the Texas Office of Injured Employee Counsel says ...Read More | |||
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Outstanding Liabilities From Defaulted Self-Insurers Down to $30.5 Million | 01/02/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Workers' Compensation Board continues to whittle down the outstanding liability left by the insolvency of 20 self-insured groups almost a decade ago. ...Read More | |||
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OCDA Hosting Comp Symposium | 12/26/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is hosting a symposium to discuss strategies to investigate and prosecute schemes to defraud California’s workers’ compensation system. ...Read More | |||
