Workers' Compensation News
| |
|
Occupational Disease Presumption to be Discussed at Conference
|
06/16/2016
|
|
|
|
State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
Whether creating a list of “presumed” occupational diseases would lead to more equitable workers' compensation coverage is a question that will be discussed next week during a conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
The roundtable discussion, entitled “Presumptive Coverage ...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Opponents of Single-Payer Ballot Initiative Hold Edge in Fundraising
|
06/13/2016
|
|
|
|
State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
Opponents of a ballot initiative proposing a single-payer system in Colorado that would also cover workers’ compensation medical costs have raised nearly twice as much money as supporters, according to data available on the Secretary of State’s website.
But backers of the ...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Optum to Host Opioid Webinar
|
06/10/2016
|
|
|
|
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance
|
|
Optum, a subsidiary of health care giant UnitedHealth Group, is hosting a webinar about how opioid analgesics prescribed to injured workers affect body systems, the company announced in a press release.
The one-hour webinar will look at how opioid analgesics affected the treatment of two ...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
OSHA Starts Inspection After Roofer Dies in Fall
|
06/09/2016
|
|
By: Risk Media Solutions
|
|
State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
|
|
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an investigation after a roofer fell to his death on Tuesday while working on a church roof in Allentown, ...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
OSHA Takes Aim at Shooting Range's Safety Practices
|
06/08/2016
|
|
|
|
State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
|
|
A shooting range in Lafayette has been hit with 16 serious safety violations, many for exposing workers to large quantities of lead, after an inspection by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
OSHA Expands Role Under New Electronic-Reporting Rule
|
06/07/2016
|
|
By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
|
|
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration intends to start collecting workplace injury information electronically from large employers next year and will make the data available to the public, in a plan that some are calling “regulation by shaming.”
...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Operation Spinal Cap Nets Son of Original Defendant in Kickback Scheme
|
06/06/2016
|
|
By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter)
|
|
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The FBI kickback investigation dubbed "Operation Spinal Cap" in Southern California has resulted in guilty pleas from three more defendants, including the son of Pacific Hospital owner Michael D. Drobot, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.
Michael R. Drobot, 44, a Newp...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Opinion of IME Doesn't Enjoy Presumption of Correctness
|
06/03/2016
|
|
Source: WorkCompCentral
|
|
State: IN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that the state Workers' Compensation Board does not need to adhere to the treatment recommendations of an independent medical examiner in determining a worker's entitlement to temporary total disability benefits.
...Read More
|
| |
1500 Results
Page 60 of 150
