Workers' Compensation News
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Requests to Approve Modified Claim Forms Due May 1 | 03/23/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation Division announced that carriers and self-insured employers will have to request approval to use modified claim forms by May 1. ...Read More | |||
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Receipt of Payments Serves to Extend Filing Period for Claim | 03/18/2020 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s claim for additional benefits for an injury he suffered out-of-state was timely filed. ...Read More | |||
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Republican Walkout Spells End to Portland Firefighter Presumption Measure | 03/13/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A bill that would have created a presumption that lung and heart issues are compensable injuries for Portland’s firefighters died when the 2020 session came to an abrupt halt as Republican lawmakers refused to come to work. ...Read More | |||
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Res Judicata Bars Worker's 2nd Effort to Expand Conditions of Claim | 03/11/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that the doctrine of res judicata barred a worker’s second motion to expand the accepted conditions of his claim even though he was advancing a different theory of causation. ...Read More | |||
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Rules Committee Confirms Sweeney | 03/05/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday unanimously voted to recommend that the full chamber approve a second term on the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board for Commissioner Marguerite Sweeney. ...Read More | |||
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Report: CopperPoint to Stop Covering Firefighters | 03/02/2020 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| As Arizona lawmakers pursue legislation that would create a conclusive cancer presumption for firefighters, CopperPoint Insurance Cos. announced it will stop providing workers’ compensation coverage for fire departments, according to a report by Glendale-based ...Read More | |||
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Rules Committee Schedules Confirmation Hearing for Marguerite Sweeney | 02/28/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 2 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate Rules Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Marguerite Sweeney on Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
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RBRVS Transition Developing as Expected, CWCI Reports | 02/21/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Reforms enacted in 2012 that required the Division of Workers' Compensation to transition to a medical fee schedule modeled after Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value scale appear to be developing as expected, according to a recent report by the California Workers' Compensation In...Read More | |||
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Return to 2007: New Rules Impose Big Fines for Failure to Report to Medicare | 02/21/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Thirteen years ago, a federal law authorized stiff penalties of up to $1,000 a day per claimant for insurers that fail to report information about workers' compensation beneficiaries who also are enrolled in Medicare. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Co-Founder of Pond Lehocky Launches Firm | 02/18/2020 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| David Stern launched a new firm in the shadow of the Pennsylvania powerhouse claimants' firm he co-founded and that he is currently suing over what he alleges was a plan to coerce him into accepting a paltry buyout offer last year, according to a report by the ...Read More | |||
