Workers' Compensation News
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Voters Injured at Work Announces New Executive Director | 12/04/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 2 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Voters Injured at Work, an organization advocating for California's injured workers and their families, announced Isabel Pires as its new executive director. ...Read More | |||
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Victim Compensation Board Files Liens to Recoup Benefits Paid to Survivors of Terrorist Attack | 11/19/2019 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Victim Compensation Board, which provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to victims of the December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, is trying to recoup by filing liens against county workers’ claims. ...Read More | |||
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Vigilant, Tower MSA Partner on Cybersecurity System | 11/13/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Vigilant Technology Solutions will provide its CyberDNA managed network security monitoring service to Tower MSA Partners, the companies announced on Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
| Virtual Reality Draws More Interest as Non-Drug Pain Treatment | 11/12/2019 | ||
| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Interest in virtual reality as a non-drug treatment for pain is growing in workers’ comp, and researchers are gaining a better understanding of when the therapy is likely to work. San Francisco-based Karuna Labs last month announced it was making its Virtual Embodiment Training avai...Read More | |||
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Vocational Nurse Will Serve 18 Months Behind Bars, Pay $97,164 in Restitution | 09/19/2019 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A former vocational nurse at the California Institution for Men in Chino convicted of six felonies relating to a fraudulent workers’ compensation was ordered to pay $97,164 in restitution and serve 18 months in Riverside County Jail. ...Read More | |||
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Veterans' Club Charged With Lapsed Comp Coverage | 08/01/2019 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A 74-year-old watering hole for veterans in Brockport, and its operator, have been charged with multiple counts of failing to carry workers' compensation insurance in the summer of 2014, a local newspaper ...Read More | |||
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Veterans Hospital Worker Can't Get Benefits After Shooting | 05/21/2019 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A cleaning crew worker who was hurt in the February shooting at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Florida says he's been denied compensation for his injuries, but is unable to work and and feels betrayed by the federal workers' compensation system. ...Read More | |||
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VA Claimant Admits Fudging Mileage Reimbursements for $72K | 02/22/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Veterans Affairs employee must pay $72,207 in restitution to the federal government and serve five years' probation after pleading guilty to four counts of wire fraud and submitting false claims for mileage reimbursement, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York ...Read More | |||
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Value-Based Care Struggles to Find Place in Workers' Comp | 01/11/2019 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Although value-based care may eventually gain a greater foothold in workers’ comp, it faces a number of hurdles — including providers’ attachment to the fee-for-service model, a webinar speaker said on Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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Voc Rehab School, Counselor Charged With Voucher Fraud | 12/17/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Schemes by California medical providers to pay kickbacks in exchange for workers' compensation patients are legend. Now a new scheme to fleece the system may have emerged: Kickbacks for vocational-rehabilitation services. ...Read More | |||
