Workers' Compensation News
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Pharmacy Technician Charged in Connection With Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
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07/23/2018
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State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Federal prosecutors have charged a pharmacy technician who purchased pharmaceuticals for a Boston hospital with making false statements about the income he received from the New England Compounding Center, which regulators shut down after a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to its products killed...Read More
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Payers Pan Governor's Opioid Guidelines
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07/19/2018
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By: Eddie Curran (correspondent)
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State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Business interests and even some workers’ comp attorneys belittled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s new opioid prescription guidelines for workers’ comp claimants, deriding them as toothless recommendations that lack the force of law.
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PTSD Rule Workshop Will Examine Injuries That 'Shock the Conscience'
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07/19/2018
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State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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In keeping with legislation passed this spring that extends workers' compensation to first responders with post-traumatic stress disorder, regulators will hold a workshop next month to help determine what types of shocking scenes may trigger the stress.
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Paragon Expands to San Diego, Hires Senior Vice President
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07/18/2018
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Connecticut-based Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC opened a new office in San Diego, and hired Robert Etzler as senior vice president and director of workers’ compensation.
Etzler held leadership roles at Cypress Point-Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Atlas General insurance Servic...Read More
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Principles of Fairness Prevented Worker's Late Claim From Being Time-Barred
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07/12/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that principles of equity allowed a worker to belatedly file a workers’ compensation claim, since his delay had been prompted by reliance on his employer’s repeated representations that his medical bills would be covered.
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PEOs, Formulary Updates Are Subjects of Proposed Regulations
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07/11/2018
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has published a notice of rules awaiting a recommendation under the state’s “common sense” initiative: an update to the BWC prescription drug formulary and rules regarding professional employer organizations.
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Provider To Pay Restitution For Inflated Functional Capacity Exam Bills
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07/10/2018
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Deer Park health care provider was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution and given three years deferred adjudication for falsifying workers’ compensation claims, the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation reported Monday.
Enrique Colon performed functional capacity evaluati...Read More
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