Workers' Compensation News
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Property Owner Can Proceed With Indemnification Claim Against Worker's Employer | 02/16/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim against a property owner, but his employer wasn't entitled to summary judgment on the property owner's claim for indemnification. ...Read More | |||
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Private Equity Firm Acquires Medical Reimbursements of America | 02/15/2017 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Medical Reimbursement of America announced on Tuesday that it has been acquired by Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. ...Read More | |||
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Presumption Expansion Gains Traction Out West | 02/14/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Bills that would create or expand presumptions that cancer and other conditions are occupational diseases for firefighters have found a receptive ear among lawmakers in several western states. ...Read More | |||
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Party That Doesn't Qualify as Employer Can't Be Subject to Penalties | 02/14/2017 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Appeals ruled that a defendant who secured a decision from the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board overturning a finding of liability for comp benefits could not be subject to penalties for having failed to pay the award of benefits while the appeal was pending. ...Read More | |||
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Proposal to Eliminate Appeals Commission Clears First Hurdle | 02/13/2017 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: AK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Alaska lawmakers on Friday took a step toward ending what regulators describe as a failed experiment to use an administrative review process to keep workers’ compensation cases out of court, when a committee in the House of Representatives passed a bill to eliminate the Workers’ Compe...Read More | |||
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Physician to Deliver Anatomy, Pain Presentation to Mass., R.I. Attorneys March 3 | 02/09/2017 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| State employees who adjudicate workers' compensation cases in Massachusetts and Rhode Island will receive a primer on anatomy and pain management on March 3. ...Read More | |||
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Prosecution Rests in Pill Mill Case | 02/08/2017 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The prosecution has rested in the case of two Alabama doctors accused of running a pill mill and dispensing drugs at grossly inflated prices to workers' compensation claimants. ...Read More | |||
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Paint Contractor Charged With Underreporting Earnings to Avoid Comp Coverage | 02/08/2017 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Brooklyn-based interior painting contractor has been charged with defrauding more than $64,000 from the New York State Insurance Fund. Vasil...Read More | |||
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Players Union Angered Over Comp Initiative It Says Would Harm Pro Athletes | 02/07/2017 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The National Football League Players Association is threatening to warn free agents not to sign with the Chicago Bears over legislation that would end workers’ compensation disability benefits at age 35 for professional athletes in Illinois. ...Read More | |||
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PBMs Say Formulary Is a Go, but Board Says No Decision Yet | 02/03/2017 | |
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| By: J. Todd Foster (Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Pharmacy benefit management firms met with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board in December and were told a closed drug formulary has the green light for later this year, an Optum official confirmed Thursday. ...Read More | |||
