Workers' Compensation News
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Rand: Benefit Increase in SB 863 Partially Offset by Recession
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03/07/2016
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Higher wage earners will likely benefit the most from the permanent disability benefit increases in Senate Bill 863, according to a Rand Corp. working paper posted to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation website.
The $120 million Return to Work Supplement Prog...Read More
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Report Addresses Opioid Overuse in Workers' Comp
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03/07/2016
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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About one-third of sidelined workers with new low-back injuries are prescribed opioids during the first six weeks after injury -- usually at the first doctor's visit.
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Rule-Making Petitions Tweaked in Workers' Compensation
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03/07/2016
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Department of Insurance officials tweaked provisions concerning rule-making petitions involving workers’ compensation in a move published Friday in the Texas Register.
The department also tweaked its own name by dropping the word “commission” from its old name....Read More
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Reform Group Protests L&I Claim Handling
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03/01/2016
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State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A group charging the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries with discriminating against Latino workers staged a protest outside the agency's office in Yakima over what it says is unfair claims handling practices.
The Yakima Herald reports about 30 protestors took to the s...Read More
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Roofer to Get Probation, Pay $718K Restitution for Lowballing Payroll
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02/25/2016
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer
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A California roofing company owner will pay at least $718,000 restitution after admitting that he misrepresented his payroll in order to receive lower workers' compensation premiums, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
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Rules Adopted to Reflect Conversion to ICD-10
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02/25/2016
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State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical
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The Louisiana Office of Workers' Compensation Administration has amended its Medical Treatment Guideline rules to include updated codes required by the conversion to the 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
The office gave noti...Read More
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Republicans Still Hoping Comp Reform Part of Budget Deal
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02/24/2016
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State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Once again, Republican leaders are hoping they can find some common ground with Democrats and pass workers' compensation reform as a means of breaking an eight-month-old budget impasse between the Democratic majority in both chambers of the legislature and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, a...Read More
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Richard Victor is First Senior Fellow at Sedgwick Institute
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02/24/2016
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Other
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The newly established Sedgwick Institute has named Richard Victor, founder of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, as its first senior fellow.
Victor founded WCRI, a public policy research organization, in 1983. He retired from the WCRI presidency this year.
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