Workers' Compensation News
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Property Owner Not Liable for Worker's Slip-and-Fall Injury | 03/01/2019 | |
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| A New York appellate court ruled that a property owner was entitled to summary judgment on a worker’s personal injury claim for a slip and fall while making a delivery of construction materials. ...Read More | |||
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Panel Overturns PPD Award to Worker for Alleged Injuries | 02/28/2019 | |
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| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel overturned an award of benefits to a worker for his alleged injuries from a slip-and-fall accident. ...Read More | |||
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Preferred Medical Names VP of Finance and Accounting | 02/27/2019 | |
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| Preferred Medical on Tuesday announced the addition of Cindy Alvano as vice president of finance and accounting. Alvano will oversee the fina...Read More | |||
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Pharma Rep Pleads Guilty in $8 Million Cream Scheme | 02/26/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A pharmaceutical company sales representative in San Antonio has pleaded guilty to paying bribes and kickbacks to medical providers, and to forging doctors' signatures, part of a compounded cream scheme that defrauded insurance programs out of almost $9 million, prosecutors said. ...Read More | |||
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ProAssurance Posts $24M Loss in Q4 Despite Strong Comp Results | 02/25/2019 | |
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| ProAssurance Corp. has reported a net loss of $24.4 million for the fourth quarter, despite increasing profitability in its workers’ comp segment. ...Read More | |||
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Property Owner Gets New Trial on Labor Law Claim, but Not Judgment | 02/25/2019 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
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| A New York appellate court ruled that a property owner will have to content itself with a new trial on a worker’s Labor Law claim because it failed to prove its entitlement to judgment in its favor. ...Read More | |||
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Public Hearing on New Formulary Set for Friday | 02/22/2019 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| After nine months of meetings, consultations and revisions, the Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims on Friday will take what likely will be one of its final steps in the process of instituting a drug formulary, the department ...Read More | |||
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Payment of Benefits in Excess of 3rd-Party Recovery Didn't Entitle Employer to Take All | 02/21/2019 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
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| The Illinois Appellate Court last week ruled that a municipal employer was not entitled to the entirety of an injured employee’s recovery from a third-party tortfeasor to satisfy its workers’ compensation lien. ...Read More | |||
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Panel Rejects Worker's Claim of PTSD Triggered by Supervisor's Rebuke | 02/20/2019 | |
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| The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel upheld the denial of a state employee’s claim that a scolding by her supervisor had caused her pre-existing post traumatic stress disorder to become symptomatic and disabling. ...Read More | |||
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Production Company Cited After 'MacGyver' Stuntman Injured | 02/20/2019 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Eye Productions Inc., a division of CBS Corp., has been issued federal citations for endangering workers during filming of the “MacGyver” television show in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. ...Read More | |||
