Workers' Compensation News
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Payment of Death Benefits to Firefighter's Widow Bars Her Tort Action | 05/07/2020 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that an award of workers’ compensation death benefits to the family of a firefighter barred his widow from pursuing a tort claim based on his fatal accident. ...Read More | |||
| Postal Worker Can't Assert Emotional Distress Claim against Employer under FTCA | 04/30/2020 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that a postal carrier who unsuccessfully pursued an emotional distress claim under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act could not assert an emotional distress claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act as well. ...Read More | |||
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PTs Still Waiting on Medicare to Permanently Authorize Telerehab Services | 04/24/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Almost a month after physical therapists discovered they were left out of a plan that authorizes telemedicine services for Medicare recipients — a plan that affects workers' compensation reimbursement in several states — they're still waiting to hear if federal regulators will...Read More | |||
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Page Not Found: Vaunted 2016 Report on Comp Problems Goes Missing From DOL Site | 04/22/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Critics have said it started with a blatant effort by the Trump administration to rewrite federal agency information about global warming. In ...Read More | |||
| Publishers of Treatment Guidelines Tackle COVID-19 | 04/21/2020 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Publishers of treatment guidelines widely used in workers’ compensation systems throughout the country have published recommendations for dealing with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. MCG Health, publisher of the Official Disability Guidelines, or ODG, and Reed G...Read More | |||
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Prominent Black-Lung Attorneys Found Stabbed to Death | 04/20/2020 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Chicago legal community and worker advocates are grieving after two well-known Chicago attorneys, one of whom handled miners' black-lung claims for almost 40 years, were found stabbed to death in their home this week. ...Read More | |||
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Paradigm Introduces COVID-19 Clinical Management Program | 04/16/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Paradigm, a provider of catastrophic medical management services, announced a new solution designed to assist injured workers requiring medical care and support for recovery from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. ...Read More | |||
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Plaintiff in Tort Action Can't Get Case Transferred to Industrial Accident Board | 04/14/2020 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Delaware Superior Court judge ruled that the plaintiff in a tort claim could not convert her complaint into a workers’ compensation claim and have the matter transferred to the Industrial Accident Board. ...Read More | |||
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Pharmacy Owners to Pay $426,000 to Settle Compound Cream Scheme Suit | 04/14/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The owners of two mail-order pharmacies have agreed to pay $426,000 to settle claims that they defrauded the federal workers' compensation program and others with expensive compounded creams over a five-year period. ...Read More | |||
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Pandemic Has Likely Changed Workers' Compensation Industry Forever, Experts Say | 04/10/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Not all states were prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, but the way agencies have responded has likely changed the workers’ compensation industry forever, experts said during an online panel Thursday. ...Read More | |||
