Workers' Compensation News
Insurance Division's Chief Counsel to Step into Shoes of departing Commissioner | 07/08/2015 | ||
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IIC Enacts Temporary Rule to Address Ambulatory Payment System Codes | 07/07/2015 | ||
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Despite public discussions in May and efforts to create a long-term solution to a medical-coding problem, the Idaho Industrial Commission enacted a temporary rule on July 1 which would delay the implementation of codes established at the beginning of the year. The commission di...Read More | |||
Industrial Commission Proposes Strategic Plans, Goals for 2016-2020 | 07/06/2015 | ||
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The Idaho Industrial Commission has laid out a four-year strategic plan to address problems in the workers’ compensation system and create goals, such as processing workers’ compensation decisions within 60 days, providing more access to coverage for workers and focusing on vocational...Read More | |||
IRE Is Valid as long as It Considers all of Worker's Accepted Injuries at Time of Exam | 07/06/2015 | ||
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The Commonwealth Court ruled that an impairment rating evaluation that considers a claimant’s work injury, as it is defined and exists at the time the evaluation is performed, is valid notwithstanding an after-the-fact expansion of the scope of a claimant’s work-related injury. ...Read More | |||
Insurance Commissioner Approves new Carrier | 07/06/2015 | ||
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Western National Mutual Insurance Co. has received permission from the state to write surety and fidelity lines in Arkansas. Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr announced the approv...Read More | |||
Injured Workers Get more Transparency, WC Commissioners Get a Raise through Budget Bill | 07/02/2015 | ||
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Tucked into the many measures attached as riders to an omnibus budget bill signed into law in Connecticut on Tuesday are provisions that will increase the salaries of workers' compensation commissioners and create more transparency for injured workers whose employers are directing them to in-...Read More | |||
Initiative Aims for 10% Reduction in Spine-Related Disability in 10 Years | 06/30/2015 | ||
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The North American Spine Foundation is adamant: It will reduce spine-related disability – the root of some of the most complex and costly worke...Read More | |||
ICA Adds Fraud Warning to Revised Forms | 06/30/2015 | ||
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The Industrial Commission of Arizona revised two forms to include a fraud warning required under legislation signed into law by Gov. Doug Ducey earlier this year. Ducey in April signed House Bill 2331, by Rep. Karen Fann, R-Prescott, to cut off indemnity benefits to workers convicted of f...Read More | |||
IAIABC Appoints former NCCI Manager as Director for EDI Programs | 06/30/2015 | ||
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Injured Railroad Worker's outside Finances Shouldn't have been Used against him at Jury Trial | 06/25/2015 | ||
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The Montana Supreme Court reversed and remanded a decision from a district court that allowed an injured railroad employee's finances to be used as evidence and for excluding evidence that could have proved the railroad's negligence. Case: Martin v. BNSF Railway Co., DA...Read More | |||