Workers' Compensation News
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Study Ties Work Injuries to Suicide, Overdose Deaths | 07/24/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An injury serious enough to lead to at least a week off work almost triples the combined risk of suicide and overdose death among women, and increases the risk by 50% among men, according to a study published in the America...Read More | |||
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States to Require Special Markings on Opioid Prescriptions | 07/24/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Opioid prescriptions in New Jersey and New Hampshire would have to include special colored stickers and warnings of addiction and overdose risk associated with the drugs, under recently signed bills. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Clarifies Requirements to Prove Entitlement to PTSD Benefits | 07/22/2019 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled that entitlement to benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder does not require an independent assessment to verify the diagnosis. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Benefits for Security Guard | 07/19/2019 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Montana Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a security guard was barred from receiving benefits for an assault injury because he waited too long to file his workers’ compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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State Paying Off Student Loans to Address Doctor Shortages | 07/18/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California spent more nearly $70 million to pay off loans doctors took out to attend medical school in July as part of a new strategy intended to address the state’s shortage of providers, the ...Read More | |||
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SAIF Announces $7.6M Payout for AGC Retro Program | 07/18/2019 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| SAIF Corp. announced a payout of more than $7.6 million for the 641 companies that participated in the group workers’ compensation program it runs with the Associated General Contractors of Oregon-Columbia Chapter. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Urged to Quickly Pass 9/11 Victim Compensation Bill | 07/16/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Pressure is now on the U.S. Senate to quickly pass a bill that would replenish a 9/11 victim compensation fund, after the House of Representatives voted 402-12 on Friday to pass the measure. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Committee Passes Bill to Codify Dynamex Decision | 07/12/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The bill to codify the California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex and require the use of the so-called “ABC test” to determine who is an employee and who is a contractor moved one step closer to the governor’s desk. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
