Workers' Compensation News
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Senate Overrides Rauner's Veto of Doctor-Payment Bill | 11/15/2018 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Senate voted Wednesday evening to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a bill that would heal a sore for workers' compensation physicians who have complained for years that insurers won't pay their bills and can't be charged interest. ...Read More | |||
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States Making Progress on Physician Dispensing Issues | 11/14/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Physicians in Colorado will soon face stricter limits on their dispensing of opioids to injured workers, in the latest example of states taking aim at a major cost driver in workers’ comp pharmacy. ...Read More | |||
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Services Held for Two Longtime WC Lawyers | 11/14/2018 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Two longtime Chicago-area workers' compensation attorneys died this month, and the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission noted their passing. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Rejects Suit Against Contractor for Fatal Accident by Drug-Using Trucker | 11/13/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Supreme Court last week ruled that the state’s statutory scheme regulating intrastate motor carriers does not impute an employer-employee relationship between the general contractor and the subcontracting motor carrier's employee for purposes of vicarious liability. ...Read More | |||
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State IDs Residual Market to Finalize WCF Privatization | 11/12/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: UT | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The residual market in Utah will consist of employers that have been turned down by at least two other carriers when the Department of Insurance starts seeking bids for a carrier of last resort, the last step in the privatization of the Workers’ Compensation Fund. ...Read More | |||
| SAIF Board to Discuss Strategic Plan | 11/12/2018 | ||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The SAIF board of directors will discuss the carrier’s 2019 strategic plan during a meeting on Wednesday. Also on the agenda: Chief Financial Officer Gina Manley will present a preliminary budget overview. Chief Actuarial Officer Laura Robison will make a re...Read More | |||
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SCIF Earned Premiums Down Slightly Through September | 11/09/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The $1.024 billion in net premiums earned by California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund through the end of September was 0.4% lower than last year, according to a summary of financial results that will be presented to the carrier’s board of directors next week. ...Read More | |||
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Scope of Warehouse Employee's Compensable Injury Didn't Include Nerve Damage | 11/09/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court rejected a warehouse worker’s request to expand the scope of his claim to include alleged nerve damage from a foot injury. ...Read More | |||
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Segarra Takes Office as Newest WC Commissioner | 11/08/2018 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Connecticut's newest workers' compensation commissioner took office this week. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Judicial Review for Disability Retirement Benefit Decisions | 11/07/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court last week ruled that an administrative agency does not need to defer to the credibility determinations of its hearing officer, but the Court of Appeals cannot reweigh the evidence presented to an agency charged with determining a public employee’s entitlement to d...Read More | |||
