Workers' Compensation News
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ProAssurance Net Income Surges in Q3 Despite Comp Segment Challenges | 11/04/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| ProAssurance Corp. has reported a third quarter net income of $33.8 million, a 229% increase from net income of $10.3 million in the prior-year quarter. ...Read More | |||
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Police Want Comp Benefits for Zika Infections | 11/03/2016 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A second Miami Beach police officer working in the city’s Zika “hot zone” has contracted the virus, the Florida Fraternal Order of Police says. ...Read More | |||
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Price Hike for Opioid Antidote Raising Eyebrows | 11/01/2016 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A 6.5-fold price increase for an auto-injectable form of opioid antidote naloxone is being called exorbitant by workers’ comp pharmacy benefit managers, but the maker of the drug said the price hike is to ensure widespread access to the drug. ...Read More | |||
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Private-Sector Occ. Injury Rate Falls to New Low | 10/31/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Private workplaces in the United States continued a long-term decline in the number of occupational injuries and illnesses in 2015, dropping to a rate of three injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers, compared to 3.2 in 2014, ...Read More | |||
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Pill Mill Doctor Who Said Patients Were 'Dropping Like Flies' Pleads Guilty | 10/31/2016 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Alabama physician who was once the nation's highest Medicare prescriber of opioids pleaded guilty this week to health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unnecessary urine tests. ...Read More | |||
| Police Investigating Shooting Outside Insurance Office | 10/28/2016 | ||
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Police are investigating the deaths of two Liberty Mutual Insurance workers in Oregon, according to a report by the Fox affiliate in Portland....Read More | |||
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Physician Dispensing's Benefits Overshadowed by Exploitation of Practice, Doctor Says | 10/27/2016 | |
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| By: Emily Brill (Reporter) | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Dr. David Fletcher says he understands opposition to physician dispensing. After Illinois placed cost controls on physician-dispensed drugs, some doctors began offering novel dosages to skirt the restrictions. ...Read More | |||
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PCI Board Elects Officers During Annual Conference | 10/26/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America elected John Barbagallo, commercial lines group president for Progressive Insurance Group, as chairman during its annual meeting in Dallas, the organization said. ...Read More | |||
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Proposal Would Require Agency to Pay Workers' Attorney Fees | 10/26/2016 | |
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| State: ND | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A draft bill would require North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency to pay an injured worker’s legal bills if the worker successfully appeals an agency decision and wins at any appellate level. ...Read More | |||
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Pinnacol Raises More Questions About Single-Payer Initiative | 10/25/2016 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CO | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A ballot initiative that would create the nation’s first single-payer health care system that would also pay for workplace injuries is continuing to raise the hackles of Colorado employers and Pinnacol Assurance, even with the latest polls showing less than one-third of voters are likely to...Read More | |||
