Workers' Compensation News
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Study: Drug Companies Paid $11.5 Million to Gabapentinoid Prescribers | 07/12/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Drug company payments may be influencing doctors to prescribe brand name gabapentinoids — pain-killing drugs sometimes used as a substitute for opioids — rather than less expensive generics, according to a study ...Read More | |||
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State Moving to EDI 3.1 Soon, DWC Says | 07/11/2019 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Division of Workers' Compensation will soon be transitioning from the electronic data interchange standard 1 to standard 3.1 for first reports and subsequent reports of injury, the division ...Read More | |||
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Sedgwick to Acquire York Risk Services Group | 07/09/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The largest third-party claims administrator is about to get bigger: Sedgwick on Monday announced it is acquiring York Risk Services Group. York has nearly 5,000 employees in more than 60 offices across the U.S., as well as an international presence, the companies said in a ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds $6,000 Fee Award to Attorney | 07/09/2019 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an Appeals Commission order remanding an issue to the Workers’ Compensation Board was not final, but it exercised jurisdiction over an award of attorney fees. ...Read More | |||
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Summary Judgment Inappropriate for Determining Liability | 07/08/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment ordering Texas Mutual Insurance Co. to provide coverage to a worker injured on an out-of-state construction project. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Appeals Just a Fraction of Pre-2013 Reform Numbers | 07/05/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Six years after the Tennessee legislature's overhaul of the state workers' comp system, the number of appeals to the state Supreme Court has dwindled to a fraction of what it once was, according to the Bureau of Workers' Compensation's ...Read More | |||
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Salinas Business Owners Sentenced for Lacking Comp Insurance | 07/02/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two Monterey County men have pleaded no contest to charges that they ran a private security guard business without having workers’ compensation insurance. ...Read More | |||
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State Increases Work Comp Benefits by 5.5% | 07/02/2019 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ compensation benefits for many injured workers in Washington state increased 5.5% on Monday, the Department of Labor and Industries said in a notice. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Strips PTSD, Immigration Requirements From Comp Budget Bill | 07/01/2019 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Major differences between Senate and House versions of a budget bill for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation has thrown the bill and the funding for the agency into question, with just two days left before a constitutional deadline. ...Read More | |||
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Statewide Contractor Sweep Generates 63 Stop-Work Orders | 06/28/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Contractors State License Board announced a statewide sweep that resulted in 63 stop-work orders for failure to carry workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
