Workers' Compensation News
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Reg Woodard Reappointed as Workers' Comp Judge
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10/18/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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New Mexico Workers' Compensation Judge Reg C. Woodward has been reappointed to serve an additional five-year term with the Workers' Compensation Administration, the agency announced Thursday.Woodard was initially appointed as a workers’ compensation judge in November 2012, ...Read More
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Registration Opens for Combined Claims Conference
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10/15/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Registration is open for the Combined Claims Conference, a two-day program in Southern California offering continuing education credits for underwriters and workers’ compensation professionals.The conference, which is March 4 and 5 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Garden Grove...Read More
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Restaurant Fund Announces Premium Decrease in 2014
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10/14/2013
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State: LA | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Louisiana Restaurant Association Self Insurer's Fund for Workers' Compensation announced that it plans to reduce its premiums in 2014.The fund announced the reduction on its blog on Thursday, but did not specify how much the average reduction might be. The reductions will tak...Read More
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Regulators Will Watch whether Docs Heed New Opioid Guidelines
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10/11/2013
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State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By John P. Kamin, ReporterIf Ohio doctors fail to heed the state's voluntary opioid-prescribing guidelines in 2014, a panel of state regulators could consider making the guidelines mandatory for doctors via rulemaking...Read More
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Report: Drobot Sells Pacific Hospital
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10/10/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Medical
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Michael D. Drobot has sold the Southern California hospital that is the target of a federal investigation and multiple civil fraud allegations to College Health Enterprises Inc., according to a report by the Orange County Register.The Register reports that College Health assumed ownershi...Read More
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Requirement for Specialty Matching in UR Sparking Concern
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10/10/2013
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State: MS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chief The Mississippi Association of Self-Insurers is asking the state Workers' Compensation Commission to modify a section of its proposed 2013 Medical Fee Schedule that requires denial...Read More
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Reports: Direct Written Premium Increased by $90 Million in 2012
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10/10/2013
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State: IN | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Indiana's direct written premium increased to $783 million in 2012, according to the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau's 77th Annual Report and the National Council on Compensation Insurance's "Outlook and Observations" report.NCCI reported that workers' compensation ins...Read More
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Regulatory Surcharge Declines
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10/08/2013
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State: WV | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The West Virginia Offices of the Insurance Commissioner has decreased the regulatory surcharge on workers' compensation premiums from 5.5% to 5% for all workers’ compensation insurance policies that took effect on Jan. 1, 2013.The regulatory surcharge is levied to fund the work...Read More
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Ridling Schedules Hearing on Proposed 3.3% Loss-Cost Increase
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10/03/2013
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State: AL | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Alabama Insurance Commissioner Jim L. Ridling has scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 5 on the call by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to increase loss costs in the voluntary market by 3.3%, effective on March 1, 2014.NCCI said in its annual state advisory report last mont...Read More
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