Workers' Compensation News
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TDI Head Sullivan Returning to Private Practice | 08/20/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan, in office for almost three years, is stepping down next month, the Department of Insurance said Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Texas Mutual Names New Vice President of Corporate Underwriting | 08/19/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced Richard Dabney as the company’s vice president of corporate underwriting. ...Read More | |||
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Tower MSA Partners Releases Section 111 Medicare Mandatory Reporting Dashboard | 08/19/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Tower MSA Partners has launched its S111 Management Dashboard to help workers' compensation and liability payers stay on top of CMS reporting compliance and avoid stiff penalties for omissions or mistakes. ...Read More | |||
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Testing for EDI 3.1 Begins in November, Board Says | 08/17/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The New York Workers' Compensation Board is reminding stakeholders that the switch to a more robust claims data reporting standard is coming next spring, and testing will begin in November. ...Read More | |||
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TCPA Doesn't Apply to Employer's Alleged Communications | 08/11/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that an employer’s alleged communications regarding the termination of an injured employee did not implicate the protections of the Texas Citizens Participation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Tower MSA Partners Receives SOC 2 Type I Attestation | 08/10/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Tower MSA Partners, a Medicare Secondary Payer compliance and Medicare Set-Aside services company, has completed its SOC 2 Type I audit. A S...Read More | |||
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TDI Approves NCCI Filing on Excluding Furloughed Employees From Payroll | 08/07/2020 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Employees who have been furloughed but were paid during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown should be excluded from payroll calculations, the Texas Insurance Commissioner said this week. ...Read More | |||
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Trump Orders Permanency to Telemed Rules but Leaves Out Rehab, PT | 08/06/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Telemedicine in workers' compensation received a shot in the arm this week from Washington and New York, another sign that remote health care will be around long after the coronavirus pandemic has subsided. ...Read More | |||
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Tyson Foods Begins Widespread Virus Testing of Meat Workers | 08/03/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Tyson Foods, facing workers' compensation claims and negligence lawsuits, announced plans to start testing thousands of meat-processing workers for the coronavirus. ...Read More | |||
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Truck Driver Fails to Establish Conditions as Occupational Disease | 07/30/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a truck driver’s occupational disease claim for lumbar arthritis and degenerative disk disease. ...Read More | |||
