Workers' Compensation News
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Unfinished Job Leads to Third Arrest in Two Years for Lack of WC | 10/29/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Jennifer Rosier (Pinellas County photo)...Read More | |||
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Uncontroverted Testimony About Fall From Scaffold Established Labor Law Claims | 10/16/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a construction worker for his fall from a scaffold that lacked safety rails. ...Read More | |||
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USPS Cited After Worker Ejected From Truck | 10/05/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The U.S. Postal Service is facing proposed federal penalties of $224,585 after a worker at an Austin, Texas, facility was ejected from an industrial truck and injured. ...Read More | |||
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UR Fraud Case Reaches Golden State | 10/03/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A doctor who surrendered his New York medical license in 2013 after he was convicted of fraudulent billing, and who is facing new charges of setting up a fraudulent utilization review company using a stolen identity, reviewed more than 1,000 claims from injured workers in California. ...Read More | |||
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Uncertainty About Coal Miner Claims Prompts 'Negative' Outlook for KEMI | 10/03/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A.M. Best has revised its outlook, to negative from stable, for Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, partly due to the insurer’s uncertain exposure from coal miners’ occupational disease claims. ...Read More | |||
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Users Question Gov's Call for Study of 6th Edition of AMA Guides | 09/26/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Gov. Jerry Brown’s call for a study of different versions of impairment ratings guidelines in a weekend veto message has some system users asking, “What’s the ...Read More | |||
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Unfunded Liability for Special Disability Fund Drops 21% | 09/24/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Florida’s second-injury fund, closed in 1998, had an estimated unfunded liability of $437 million on June 30 — 21% less than last year’s estimate, according to ...Read More | |||
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Uncertainty Surrounds Lyrica Patent Extension | 08/16/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Whether Pfizer will receive a patent extension for Lyrica, a drug often prescribed to injured workers, remains to be seen, according to a recent SEC filing by the company. ...Read More | |||
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Unrebutted Opinion of Voc Rehab Counselor Established Worker's 100% Loss of Earning Capacity | 07/06/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled that a utility district employee had no earning capacity after an on-the-job back injury, since he properly reported his injury to his employer and there was no evidence to rebut the final opinion of the vocational rehabilitation counselor selected by the parti...Read More | |||
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U.S. Senate Bill Aims to Clarify Frustrating Medicare Set-Aside Process | 06/21/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 2 | Popular with Legal | |||
| After many think sessions with stakeholders over the past two years, advocates say a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would clean up what has been a messy approach to Medicare set-asides. ...Read More | |||
