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Governor's Flight on Sedgwick Jet Draws Election-Year Scrutiny
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09/14/2018
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State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 211 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 10 min read
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds reportedly received ethics approval to fly with her family last year to an Iowa State University bowl game free of charge on a jet owned by Sedgwick, which administers workers’ comp claims for state employees.
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Advisory Committee Holding Roundtable Discussion
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09/14/2018
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State: NM | Segment: WEST | 87 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 42 min read
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An advisory committee to the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration is holding a roundtable discussion on how the state’s system helps injured workers return to employment.
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Court Revives Labor Law Claim for Injuries From Dropped Object
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09/14/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 250 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 3 min read
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A New York appellate court revived a worker’s Labor Law claim seeking damages for injuries from being hit by an object that was allegedly dropped by workers on an adjacent building.
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Jury Convicts Businessman of Work Comp Fraud
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09/14/2018
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 147 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 2 min read
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A prominent Ohio businessman and former town official was convicted Wednesday of a reduced count of workers’ compensation fraud and won’t face prison time.
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Court Tosses Worker's Labor Law Claim for Alleged Injuries
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09/14/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 168 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 2 min read
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A New York appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s Labor Law claim for alleged injuries from having his foot fall through an opening in a rebar grid.
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Laboratory Owner, Marketer Sentenced in Kickback Scheme
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09/14/2018
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State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 427 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 4 min read
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The owner of a medical testing laboratory and his marketer were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for paying $1.37 million in kickbacks to a Maryland pain management practice in exchange for conducting urine specimen tests that were paid for by federal health care programs and private insurers....Read More
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State Employee Charged in Alleged Plot to Oust Chief Comp Judge
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09/13/2018
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State: WV | Segment: Top | 802 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 26 min read
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West Virginia state police have charged an employee of the Workers’ Compensation Office of Judges with a misdemeanor for allegedly sending a Facebook message to make it appear that Chief Administrative Law Judge Rebecca Rousch was harassing her.
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L&I Proposes Rules to Clarify Self-Insurer Claims-Handling Obligations
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09/13/2018
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By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor)
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State: WA | Segment: Top | 103 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 62 min read
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The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has proposed rules that would give self-insured employers some of the additional claims-handling authority lawmakers refused to provide over the last two sessions.
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Insurers, Self-Insureds Still Paying for State Services Outside of Comp
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09/13/2018
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By: Eddie Curran (correspondent)
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State: MS | Segment: Top | 119 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 30 min read
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With hopes dashed during this year’s legislative session, the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission and disappointed stakeholders are stuck for now with a situation in which insurance companies and self-insureds, whose assessments fund the commission, are essentially ...Read More
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