Workers' Compensation News
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Printing Company Fined for Safety Violations | 12/12/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a south Florida printing company more than $71,000 for failure to protect employees from amputation, electrical and fall hazards. ...Read More | |||
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Presumption of Occupational Causation Applied to Firefighter Who Had Heart Attack While on Leave | 12/12/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A workers’ compensation insurance carrier could not avoid the presumption of occupational causation for a firefighter’s heart attack just because he was on leave from his job when it happened. ...Read More | |||
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Percentage of Surgical Carpal-Tunnel Cases Varies by State, Company Reports | 12/12/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Twenty percent of carpal tunnel cases in California in which physical therapy was provided through MedRisk, a workers’ comp physical medicine management company, were post-surgical cases, while the other 80% did not involve surgery, the company said. ...Read More | |||
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Prosecutors Allege Kickback Scheme Netted $211M | 12/10/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Federal prosecutors in Southern California say a scheme to pay kickbacks to doctors who prescribed compound drugs to injured workers netted more than $211 million in payments over a four-year period. ...Read More | |||
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Public Health Department Reports Data on Carpal Tunnel | 12/10/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As many as 6.3 out of every 10,000 full-time employees in California might have carpal tunnel syndrome, according to information the state Department of Public Health posted on its website. ...Read More | |||
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Political Groups Fined for Failing to Report Spending to Defeat Formulary Bills | 12/10/2018 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two lobbying groups reportedly financed by a claimants' law firm were fined by the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission for late disclosure of contributions that funded Twitter and advertising campaigns against workers’ compensation bills, The Morning Call newspaper ...Read More | |||
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Patients Lured With Opioids to Undergo Injections in Alleged Scheme | 12/10/2018 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Six Michigan doctors have been charged as part of an investigation into a $464 million health care fraud scheme that involved more than 13 million unlawful opioid prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider’s office ...Read More | |||
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Proposed WCB Rule Takes Aim at Work Comp PBMs | 12/07/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York may become the first state to adopt a rule regarding drug pricing transparency and rebates specifically for workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit managers, which thus far have largely been able to avoid such requirements when contained in state legislation. ...Read More | |||
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Payroll Company Owner Shorted Bureau on Premiums Paid by Employers | 12/07/2018 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A payroll company owner in Ohio was sentenced to six months in federal prison and fined $10,000 this week after he was convicted of underreporting payroll and defrauding the state Bureau of Workers' Compensation, the bureau ...Read More | |||
| Per-Diem and Stop-Loss to Rise Under New Hospital Fee Schedules | 12/05/2018 | ||
| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hospitals in Tennessee could see a slight bump in reimbursements if new workers’ compensation fee schedules are approved early next year. The proposed schedules and ...Read More | |||
