Workers' Compensation News
| |
|
TDI Adopts Amendments on Assessments for Comp Provider Examinations
|
12/29/2014
|
|
Source: Texas Department of Insurance
|
|
State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The Texas Department of Insurance has adopted amendments to the Texas Administrative Code addressing assessments in 2015 to cover the expenses of examining domestic and foreign insurance companies and self-insurance groups that provide workers’ compensation insurance, the departme...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Thoroughbred Assn. Increases Fees to Pay for Higher Workers' Comp Rates
|
12/24/2014
|
|
|
|
State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
New York horse trainers will have to pay $1.50 per stall per day and the percentage of purses allocated for workers' compensation expenses will increase to 1% from 0.95% in order to pay for an increase in workers' compensation premiums charged by New York State Insurance Fund, according t...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Taxi Driver Shot in Face by Passenger Can't Get Comp Benefits
|
12/03/2014
|
|
By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
|
|
State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that a taxi cab driver who was shot in the face by a passenger was not entitled to workers' compensation benefits because he was not an employee.
...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Three Comp Bills Filed Ahead of 2015 Session
|
12/03/2014
|
|
|
|
State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
Bills requiring workers' compensation carriers in Montana to provide loss-run information to policyholders, reducing the requisite impairment level to qualify for vocational-rehabilitation benefits and authorizing temporary appointments of work comp judges were filed in advance of the 2015 le...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
TDI Posts Draft Rules on PEOs Sponsoring Self-Funded Plans
|
12/01/2014
|
|
|
|
State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
The Texas Department of Insurance has posted an informal draft of rules to regulate professional employer organizations sponsoring self-funded employee benefit plans.
If eventually enacted, the informal rules would comprise a new subchapter F in Title 28, Part 1, Chapter 13 of the Texas A...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
Three Convicted of Murder Stemming from Plot to Rob Injured Worker
|
11/26/2014
|
|
|
|
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
Three Northern California men could spend the rest of their lives in jail after being found guilty of first-degree murder from a botched attempt to rob an injured worker of his $50,000 settlement, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Michael Sanderson received $50,000 to settle a workers' comp...Read More
|
| |
| |
|
TDI Keeps IRO Fees the Same in Formal Rule Proposal
|
11/26/2014
|
|
|
|
State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
|
|
After hearing from insurers who said the fees paid to independent medical-review organizations are already too high and from a provider who said they are far too low, the Texas Department of Insurance decided to leave the fee structure exactly as it is now.
In a formal rule proposal...Read More
|
| |
1500 Results
Page 93 of 150
