Workers' Compensation News
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Three Comp Bills Filed Ahead of 2015 Session
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12/03/2014
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State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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TDI Posts Draft Rules on PEOs Sponsoring Self-Funded Plans
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12/01/2014
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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Three Convicted of Murder Stemming from Plot to Rob Injured Worker
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11/26/2014
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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TDI Keeps IRO Fees the Same in Formal Rule Proposal
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11/26/2014
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State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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TDI to Hold Consecutive Hearings to Consider Rates, Relativities
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11/26/2014
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Source: Texas Department of Insurance
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Texas Insurance Commissioner Julia Rathgeber will hold a pair of back-to-back public hearings on Dec. 12 to review rates charged by workers’ compensation insurers and to consider revised relativity rates, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.
The first hearing will begin at 9...Read More
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Tom Noe's Ex-Wife Will Keep Her Florida Home
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11/25/2014
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The ex-wife of Tom Noe, convicted of stealing $13.7 million from an Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation investment placed with him, will keep her home after an out-of-court settlement with her ex-husband’s law firm, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
The firm, Thompson Hine LLP,...Read More
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Trial Court Awarded Excessive PPD Benefits
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11/18/2014
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State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A trial court mistakenly awarded permanent partial disability benefits to a woman that were more than 150% of the injured worker's total impairment, the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court of Tennessee ruled.
Case: Teresa G. Moore v. Knox County Govern...Read More
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Texas Mutual Pays Dividend to Recreation Safety Group
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11/18/2014
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Source: Texas Mutual Insurance Co.
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has paid a dividend of more than $160,000 to the Texas Recreation Safety Group, bringing Texas Mutual’s total dividend payout to the group over $1 million since 2009, the insurer announced in a release.
The most recent dividend payout to the safety group o...Read More
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