Workers' Compensation News
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Two City Workers Fired After Leak of Comp Claims Bid Info | 01/08/2020 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two Baltimore city employees have been fired after an investigation found that they leaked confidential information about an upcoming bid for workers' compensation claims administration services. ...Read More | |||
| Teacher's Misrepresentations About Cause of Retirement Result in Forfeiture of Benefits | 12/30/2019 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Board disqualifying a former school teacher from receiving benefits because he had lied about his need to retire because of his work-related injuries. Case: Matter of Felicello v. Marlboro Cen...Read More | |||
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Three Doctors Named Repeat Offenders in Documentation Report | 12/26/2019 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Some of the same physicians named in 2017 as poor performers in documenting workplace injuries in Texas have made the list again this year. ...Read More | |||
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Task Force Wants More Documentation, Penalties for Misclassification | 12/26/2019 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A worker misclassification task force appointed in April has recommended a number of changes, including additional documentation on subcontractors, heightened penalties for misclassification, and a web-based verification system to help stem the tide of payroll and premium fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Truck Stop Owner Misclassifies Injured Man — as an Employee | 12/20/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In what an insurance company official said is a most unusual case, a Texas truck stop owner has pleaded guilty to claiming that a man who was injured at the shop was an employee. ...Read More | |||
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Temp Company Owners Plead to 'Off-the-Books' Operation, Then One Goes Missing | 12/18/2019 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The owners of a temporary staffing company in Boston have pleaded guilty to running an elaborate wage theft and payroll fraud scheme. Massachusetts At...Read More | |||
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Truck Driver Guilty of Double Dipping on 2009 Injury | 12/17/2019 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Deangelo Speed was injured in 2009 while working as a pizza deliveryman. Almost a decade later, he was still collecting benefits when investigators discovered that he was also working as a truck driver. ...Read More | |||
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Texas Mutual Grants $1.1 Million for Workforce Development Programs | 12/11/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Texas Mutual Insurance Co., the largest workers' compensation carrier in the state, announced this week that it has donated more than $1.1 million in workforce development grants to 16 education and skills-training organizations. ...Read More | |||
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Triable Question Precludes Summary Judgment | 11/13/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court partially revived a worker’s Labor Law claim based on his alleged injuries from an accident that occurred after he returned to a rental property where he had installed refrigeration condensers. ...Read More | |||
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Two Business Owners Convicted of Work Comp Fraud | 11/11/2019 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two northeast Ohio businessmen must pay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation nearly $1.3 million in restitution following their convictions on fraud charges in separate, unrelated cases. ...Read More | |||
