Workers' Compensation News
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Carrier's Managing General Agent Can't Stop Administrative Proceedings | 07/20/2023 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Montana Supreme Court ruled that a carrier’s managing general agent was not entitled to a writ to stop an administrative proceeding against it for its alleged failure to provide information to the state in a “usable” format. ...Read More | |||
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WCB Posts Guidance for Disputing Telehealth Payments | 07/20/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board said the fact that medical treatment was provided using telehealth should not be the sole basis for a legal objection to a bill. ...Read More | |||
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State Workplace Safety Regulators Launch Heat Illness Program | 07/20/2023 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health implemented a statewide emphasis program aimed at mitigating heat-related illnesses and injuries in the workplace. ...Read More | |||
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Surgeon Sentenced to 33 Months for Role in Pacific Hospital Kickback Scheme | 07/19/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that a surgeon who accepted more than $315,000 in bribes and kickbacks for performing spinal surgeries at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Board's Rejection of Settlement as Not Serving Best Interests of Worker | 07/19/2023 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court upheld a decision of the Industrial Accident Board to reject a proposed settlement of a worker’s claim that accounted for a shoulder injury but not her alleged neck injury. ...Read More | |||
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No Accidental Disability Retirement Pension for Dental Worker With Needle-Stick Injury | 07/19/2023 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Superior Court of Rhode Island upheld a denial of an accidental disability retirement pension to a dental assistant for her needle-stick injury. ...Read More | |||
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Stevedoring Company Gets Summary Dismissal of Injured Longshoreman's Jones Act Claims | 07/19/2023 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a stevedoring company on a longshoreman’s claim of Jones Act negligence. ...Read More | |||
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AM Best: Comp Line Driving Profits for Property/Casualty Sector | 07/19/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Rating agency AM Best in a new report characterized the workers’ compensation line as a profit engine for the property and casualty sector in 2022. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Finalizes Spinal Cord Stimulator Audit Plan | 07/19/2023 | |
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| Source: Steve Nichols, News Contributor | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Jeff Nelson approved a spinal cord stimulator plan-based audit. ...Read More | |||
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WCC Seeks Comments on Fee Schedule | 07/19/2023 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission is seeking comments on potential revisions to its medical fee schedule as it begins the process of reviewing and drafting proposed updates. ...Read More | |||
