Workers' Compensation News
| Maximum Benefit Level Rises by $31 Per Week | 09/08/2020 | ||
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The minimum and the maximum weekly benefit in Kentucky will rise in 2021, thanks to an increase in the state's average weekly wage, the Department of Workers' Claims announced. The average weekly wage in 2019 climbed to $918. State law sets the weekly maximum for workers' comp...Read More | |||
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Man Pleads Guilty to Running Illegal Business Believed to Be Front to Avoid Comp | 09/02/2020 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Utah man pleaded guilty to one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting businesses that federal prosecutors say likely existed to avoid employment taxes and workers’ compensation premiums. ...Read More | |||
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MLAC to Keep Working on Consensus for Handling COVID Claims | 08/27/2020 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon’s joint management-labor advisory panel will keep trying to forge a consensus about how to handle workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19. ...Read More | |||
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Man Pleads to Double Dipping After Seen Mowing Lawn | 08/25/2020 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Sidney, Ohio, man who said he was unable to work is now on probation after he was videotaped mowing his lawn, using a snowblower and chopping wood. ...Read More | |||
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Mitchell/Genex Finalizes Acquisition of Coventry | 08/04/2020 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mitchell/Genex on Monday announced that it finalized the acquisition of Coventry Workers’ Comp Services from CVS Health. The acquisition adds...Read More | |||
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Maximum Benefits Increase 1.5% | 07/24/2020 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Maximum temporary disability benefits and permanent disability benefits increased 1.5% for injuries occurring between July 15 and Jan. 14, 2021, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission announced. ...Read More | |||
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Medicare Reporting Rules Still Not Final, and Questions Continue | 07/23/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has yet to finalize long-awaited new rules about penalties for improper reporting of information on workers' comp claimants who also are eligible for Medicare. ...Read More | |||
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MLAC Members Agree on 6 Issues but Can't See Eye-to-Eye on Presumption | 07/22/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Worker and employer advocates from Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee have submitted their respective pandemic-related compensation plans to state leaders, but what happens next in the process remains uncertain. ...Read More | |||
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MLAC Committee Members at Impasse on COVID Talks, Offer Dual Recommendations | 07/21/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| After multiple hours-long meetings over the past several weeks, members of Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee failed to reach a consensus recommendation Friday regarding COVID-19 protections for employees in addition to the current workers’ compensation system. ...Read More | |||
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Mental Health Doctors Decry Latest MLFS Proposal as DWC's Comment Period Closes | 07/14/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mental health professionals from around California have submitted comments in opposition to the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s latest Medical-Legal Fee Schedule proposal, saying lackluster reimbursement rates, inadequate cost of living adjustments and fixed fees could discourage ...Read More | |||
