Workers' Compensation News
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Industrial Commission Opens Registration for Annual Seminar
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08/12/2015
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State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Idaho's Industrial Commission started accepting "early-bird" registrations for its 2015 annual Seminar on Workers' Compensation, which will be held in October.
Thomas Lynch, president and founder of Lynch Ryan Tech, is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech during ...Read More
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Investor Takes COO Job at Telemedicine Firm
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08/12/2015
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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After investing $1 million in the telemedicine firm Optimized Care Network, Joe Favazzo is taking on the role of chief operating officer at the company.
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Injured Worker Blows Whistle on Former Employer
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08/10/2015
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State: WI | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A tip from an injured former employee sparked an investigation leading to a proposed $63,000 fine for a willful violation Aug. 6 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration against a Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, packaging company, ...Read More
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Insys Settles Allegations of Improper Opioid Marketing
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08/07/2015
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Insys, a pharmaceutical company accused of pushing doctors to prescribe its opioid painkiller drug Subsys for nonapproved uses, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle allegations of misconduct with Oregon's attorney general.
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Insurance Division Proposes Document Filing Rule
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08/06/2015
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State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Colorado's Division of Insurance proposed a new rule that would require carriers to certify that all policy forms and documents comply with state law.
Rules proposed Monday would req...Read More
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Illinois WC Fraud Unit Mines few Convictions
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07/29/2015
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Illinois’ Workers’ Compensation Fraud Unit came into existence 10 years ago to police and prosecute misbehavior, but there were just six convictions in 2014, with only one resulting in jail time.
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Insurance Division Loosens Construction Wrap-up Rules
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07/29/2015
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State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Colorado's Division of Insurance announced that the total estimated cost of a construction project or series of projects must be at least $50 million for a contractor to be eligible to purchase a workers' compensation "wrap-up" policy covering all subcontractors on the project....Read More
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Intramuscular Injections not Reasonable and Necessary
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07/27/2015
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The District of Columbia's highest court ruled that an injured bus driver was not entitled to continue receiving intramuscular injections since this treatment was no longer reasonable and necessary to treat her neck and back injuries.
Case: White v. District of Columbia Department of ...Read More
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