Workers' Compensation News
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Roofer's Fatal Fall Prompts $134K Fine | 10/23/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Orlando, Florida-based roofing contractor faces $134,510 in federal penalties after a worker fell to his death at a residential work site. Kasper ...Read More | |||
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Rate Bureau Proposes 15.9% Loss Cost Decrease | 10/23/2018 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The North Carolina Rate Bureau is recommending a 15.9% average loss cost decrease for the voluntary market and a 17.2% cut in the ...Read More | |||
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Rate Reduction May Approach Last Year's Hike | 10/22/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| What the court taketh away, the state legislature and the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau giveth back, probably by the end of the year. Th...Read More | |||
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Receipt of Comp Didn't Establish Entitlement to Additional Benefits | 10/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a police officer’s establishing entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits does not automatically entitle her to benefits under the General Municipal Law. ...Read More | |||
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Remote Patient Monitoring Finding Applications in Comp | 10/16/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Whether a patient monitoring system that uses an Apple Watch can improve outcomes and lower costs for patients undergoing a knee or hip replacement is the subject of a clinical trial launched Monday. ...Read More | |||
| Realm National Insurance Liquidation Winding Down | 10/16/2018 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The liquidation of Realm National Insurance Co. appears to be drawing to a close, according to an Oct. 5 order from the state Supreme Court in New York. Any creditors, claimants or others with an interest in Realm’s affairs has until Dec. 6 to notify the court, the ...Read More | |||
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Rule Would Implement Death Benefit Policy for First Responders | 10/12/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is proposing a regulation that will implement legislation that makes the surviving spouses of first responders eligible for death benefits for life after remarrying. ...Read More | |||
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Retail Worker Failed to Link Back Injury to Job | 10/10/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that a retail worker failed to carry her burden of proving that her back complaints had been caused by work activities. ...Read More | |||
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Revised Fee Schedules Leave Providers Asking for More | 10/08/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Despite hundreds of public comments, including 262 postcards from a single law firm, the New York Workers’ Compensation Board has made only relatively minor changes to its medical fee schedules, leaving some chiropractors, psychologists, physicians and worker advocates asking for a few...Read More | |||
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Rand Report Says Benefit Levels, Complexity Undermine Comp in U.S. | 10/04/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A new report from Rand Corp. finds that benefit reductions, system complexity and a lack of access to quality health care are defeating the purpose of workers’ compensation systems across the country. ...Read More | |||
