Workers' Compensation News
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Encompass Hires Ramon Terrazas as Medical Director
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09/11/2018
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 198 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 24 min read
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Encompass Health Solutions, a provider of workers’ compensation services including nurse triage, has appointed Dr. Ramon Terrazas as medical director.
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DWC Corrects Weekly Pharmaceutical Fee File
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09/11/2018
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 206 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 20 min read
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California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation is recommending that anyone who used its pharmaceutical calculator on Sept. 5 or 6 to run calculations again using a corrected data file posted on Friday.
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Fugitive Lawyer in $550 Million Fraud Case Sentenced
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09/11/2018
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By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter)
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State: KY | Segment: Top | 217 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 14 min read
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A lawyer who fled to Honduras after pleading guilty last year to participating in a $550 million Social Security fraud scheme was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for his escape and related crimes.
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BWC Launching $5M Grant Program to Encourage Addiction Recovery
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09/11/2018
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 194 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 8 min read
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The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced Monday that it will launch a pilot program in October that will spend $5 million over two years to help employers hire workers who are recovering from addiction to opioids and other drugs.
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Supreme Court Denies PTD Benefits to Worker With Lou Gehrig's Disease
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09/11/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: WY | Segment: WEST | 108 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 9 min read
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The Wyoming Supreme Court last week ruled that a worker with an incurable neurodegenerative disease was not entitled to permanent total disability benefits because he failed to prove his inability to work was linked to a prior back injury as opposed to the progression of his illness.
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Texas Mutual Surplus Grows, to $3.5B, in 2017
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09/11/2018
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 122 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 8 min read
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Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has reported a net income of $232 million for 2017, compared to net income of $319 million the previous year.
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Court Finds Employer Classified Workers as Employees of Another Company
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09/11/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: UT | Segment: WEST | 82 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 51 min read
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The Utah Court of Appeals upheld a determination that an employer failed to make the required unemployment insurance contributions for all of its staff, since it had been passing off workers as the employees of another company.
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