Workers' Compensation News
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Sources of Billing Errors Detailed in Report
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04/10/2018
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 115 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 42 min read
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Out of hundreds of thousands of workers’ compensation bills audited, about 35% contained some type of billing error, according to a quarterly trends report from Mitchell International.
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House Passes Bill to Increase PPD Benefits
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04/10/2018
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State: AK | Segment: WEST | 70 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 11 min read
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The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill that would nearly double the base amount used to calculate permanent partial disability benefits.
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Security Fund Flush, No Assessment Needed
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04/10/2018
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State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 47 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 60 min read
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Pennsylvania insurers will not be required to pay an assessment to Workers’ Compensation Security Fund this year, the Insurance Department announced in a notice posted in the state Bulletin.
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Attorneys' Procedural Mistake Won't Bar Workers From Advancing Claims Against BP
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04/10/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 69 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 16 min read
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A federal trial court judge in Louisiana is allowing two BP Exploration & Production employees to move forward with their claims that they were sickened by their chemical exposures while participating in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Judge Must Decide Arbitrability of Disputes Under EquityComp Agreement
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04/10/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 104 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 8 min read
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The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that a trial judge should have decided whether the terms of an arbitration agreement between Applied Underwriters and a disgruntled EquityComp customer required that a dispute over allegedly unpaid costs be decided by an arbitrator.
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Employer Wasn't Entitled to Presumption That Worker's Drug Use Caused Accident
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04/10/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 82 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 328 min read
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A divided Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a truck driver for an injury to his hand, finding that his employer was not entitled to a statutory presumption that his accident had been occasioned by the use of methamphetamine.
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WCB's Misreading of Record Required Reversal of Benefit Denial
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04/10/2018
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 80 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 5 min read
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A New York appellate court overturned a decision denying a worker’s claim, finding that the Workers’ Compensation Board had misconstrued the record evidence in rejecting the opinion of the worker’s doctor.
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