Workers' Compensation News
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Village Ponders Taking Pool Liability Suit to High Court
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02/13/2013
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State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Attorneys for the Village of Herkimer have recommended that the municipality take a dispute over a $2.5 million assessment to the state's highest court with a novel argument, after an intermediate appellate court ruled in favor of the village's former insurance pool.The 4th Depar...Read More
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Vendor's Low Pay to Doctors Raises Questions about Quality
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02/07/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefCalifornia attorneys, doctors and advocates for injured workers are concerned about the quality of independent medical review decisions because of the low pay being offered to doctors by...Read More
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Video Leads to Arrest of Gardener for Workers' Comp Fraud
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01/15/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Surveillance video led to the arrest of a Southern California gardener on workers' compensation fraud and perjury charges, according to the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office.Prosecutors filed criminal charges on Jan. 7 against 54-year-old Jose Cortez of Fontana....Read More
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Videotaped Shopping Spree Leads to Arrest of Tulsa Claimant
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12/20/2012
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: OK | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office charged a Tulsa health services provider with insurance fraud after investigators videotaped her going shopping and lifting heavy packages while claiming she was in too much pain to work.Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt's office said in a pr...Read More
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Vaughan Stepping Down as NAIC CEO at End of Month
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11/20/2012
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Therese M. Vaughan plans to leave her position as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Nov. 30, NAIC said in a press release.Vaughan announced plans in August to transition out of the job in early 2013, but now plans to "accelerate her departu...Read More
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Vegetable Processing Plant Fined $35,000 for Safety Violations
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11/01/2012
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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California workplace safety regulators fined a Salinas vegetable processing plant $35,000 for violations related to chlorine leaks that resulted in multiple evacuations and 99 workers being hospitalized in May, according to the Monterey Herald.The California Division of Occupational Safe...Read More
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Verbal Settlement Not Enforceable through Equitable Estoppel
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10/12/2012
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: WI | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Equitable estoppel does not allow an insurer to enforce the terms of an alleged verbal settlement agreement between a workers' compensation claimant and another insurance carrier because there was no written contract between the parties, District III of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled....Read More
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Valladolid OCSLA Case Heads Back to Benefits Review Board
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10/04/2012
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A widow seeking workers' compensation benefits under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) for her husband's death at an oil-processing facility in La Conchita, Calif., is heading back to the Benefits Review Board, whose denial of her claim was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Cou...Read More
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