Workers' Compensation News
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Proposal Would Make Max PD Benefits 5th Highest in Country | 09/27/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Oregon workers with permanent disabilities would enjoy the fifth highest weekly benefit payments in the nation under a legislative proposal drafted by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Division. ...Read More | |||
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Patient Advocates Wonder if Opioid Restrictions Have Gone Too Far | 09/27/2016 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As efforts intensify to combat the opioid epidemic, some are asking whether it’s becoming too difficult for patients to get needed pain medication. ...Read More | |||
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Physician Dispensing, High Replacement Wages Hurting Economy, Think Tank Says | 09/26/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois Policy Institute says physician dispensing and high wage-replacement rates are threatening the state’s long-term economic health. ...Read More | |||
| Pure Premium to Drop 6.6% in 2017 | 09/23/2016 | ||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Pure premium will drop 6.6% in 2017, the fourth year in a row that the figure has fallen, Oregon's Department of Consumer and Business Services announced this week. The average employer will...Read More | |||
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Proposed Rules Impact Self-Insureds, Claims Administration | 09/22/2016 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division is proposing several rule changes that would impact coverage responsibility for employers and insurers, claims administration, the Employer-at-Injury Program, the Preferred Worker Program and vocational assistance. ...Read More | |||
| Prime Health Teams With CHC to Offer Telemedicine Network for Comp | 09/22/2016 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Prime Health Services and Consumer Health Connections are teaming up to offer a telemedicine health care network for the workers' compensation industry, the companies announced in a press release Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
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Proposed Formulary Gets Mixed Reviews in Initial Comment Period | 09/19/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Draft rules to implement a worker’s compensation formulary in California drew mixed reviews from providers and others who submitted comments before Friday’s deadline. ...Read More | |||
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PPD Benefits Due to Murdered Worker Are Payable to His Estate | 09/16/2016 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent partial disability benefits to a worker who was murdered while his claim was pending, and it ruled that his benefits were payable to his estate. ...Read More | |||
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Presumption of Industrial Causation Didn't Apply to Firefighter With Prostate Cancer | 09/15/2016 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the statutory presumption of industrial causation for cancer in firefighters did not apply to a firefighter with prostate cancer. ...Read More | |||
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Premiums and Combined Ratios Have Fallen Steadily | 09/15/2016 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The combined ratio for Tennessee workers' comp insurers has declined steadily since reaching a peak of 121.4 in 2001, to 93.1 last year, according to a report that the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Indus...Read More | |||
