Workers' Compensation News
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Railway Can't Get Relief From Protective Order Barring Direct Communication With FELA Plaintiff | 06/15/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a railway company was not entitled to relief from a protective order that barred it from directly communicating with an injured employee after he filed a claim under the Federal Employers Liability Act. ...Read More | |||
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Report Challenges Conventional Thinking on Reporting Lag, Claim Costs | 06/13/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Despite evidence that a delay in reporting a workplace injury of more than 12 days is associated with higher claim costs, focusing solely on reducing reporting lag times may not be the most effective strategy for containing costs, according to a new report from Lockton. ...Read More | |||
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Registration Open For Annual Claims Seminar | 06/13/2018 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arizona Industrial Commission has opened registration for its annual claims seminar, to be held Aug. 9-10 in Scottsdale. The program includes an ...Read More | |||
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Registration Open for Annual Educational Conference in Raleigh | 06/13/2018 | |
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| The North Carolina Industrial Commission is accepting registrations for its 23rd Annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference, to take place in Raleigh Oct. 10-12. ...Read More | |||
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Return-to-Work Data Behind ODG's New Treatment Approval Tool | 06/11/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The publisher of the Official Disability Guidelines, which are used as workers’ comp medical treatment guidelines in several states, has introduced a new product that rates medical treatments based on their correlation with return-to-work outcomes for injured employees. ...Read More | |||
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Railroad Retirement Act Tax Liability Can't Be Offset From Recovery on FELA Claim | 06/07/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Illinois Appellate Court ruled that an injured worker’s recovery for lost wages under the Federal Employers Liability Act was not subject to an offset for his alleged tax liabilities under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act. ...Read More | |||
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Rand Suggests DWC Streamline Mandatory Forms, Pay Docs for Completion | 06/06/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A report by one of the California's leading research groups — which apparently has been sitting on a shelf for the past six months — recommends that state regulators give medical providers more money for report writing, and clean up some of its duplicative requireme...Read More | |||
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Residents Who Agreed to Check on Neighbor Can Recover for Injuries Through Comp | 06/06/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that the workers’ compensation system provides the only available remedy to two private citizens who suffered horrific injuries in a knife attack while checking on the well-being of a neighbor at the request of a deputy sheriff. ...Read More | |||
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Republican Lawmakers Try Again With New Rx Guideline, Compounding Pharmacy Bill | 06/05/2018 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Five weeks after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a hotly debated bill that would have set up a drug formulary and imposed more utilization reviews, Republican lawmakers are trying again. ...Read More | |||
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Rules Proposed to Eliminate 12-Month Cap on Extended TD Duration | 06/05/2018 | |
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| State: WY | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services has proposed rules that would eliminate a cap on the extended temporary total disability benefit that can be awarded to injured workers who already received 24 months of benefits. ...Read More | |||
