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Workers' Compensation News
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Doctor, Ambulance Providers Suspended for Fraud | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 848 | 1 | Popular with Legal | 25 min read | |||
| A Los Angeles physician, and the owner and the manager of a Los Angeles ambulance service, were added to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation banned medical provider list on Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
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Vouchers, Supplemental Payments on Agenda for June 7 CHSWC Meeting | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 252 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 40 min read | |||
| Members of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation will discuss options for implementing recommendations to support the $120 million supplemental benefit program in California while also hearing preliminary findings from a review of the vocation education voucher progr...Read More | |||
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Younger Drobot Starts Serving Prison Sentence | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 430 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 21 min read | |||
| Michael R. Drobot started serving his 41-month prison sentence while his father was given an extra two months of freedom before he’ll have to start serving his 63-month sentence. ...Read More | |||
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Landscaper Pleads Guilty to Double-Dipping Charge | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 802 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 14 min read | |||
| A Southern California man pleaded guilty to one count of felony workers’ compensation fraud after investigators discovered that he worked as a landscaper while receiving disability benefits for an alleged injury that he suffered while working for another landscaping company, according ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass Cancer Presumption Bill, Order PTSD Study | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: Top | 122 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 212 min read | |||
| Some 28 years after New Hampshire passed the nation’s first presumptive cancer bill, the state’s firefighters may finally be able to begin accessing workers’ comp coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Accreditation Group Takes Aim at Texas Rehab Study | 05/24/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 168 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 25 min read | |||
| Eight months after Texas regulators released a study showing no difference in outcomes for accredited versus non-accredited rehabilitation providers, an international accreditation group is taking issue with the report's findings and methodology. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Statutory Benefits for Mesothelioma Claims | 05/24/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 127 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 94 min read | |||
| The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected a constitutional challenge to a 2014 statutory amendment that allowed workers to collect a lump-sum payment of benefits if they develop occupationally caused mesothelioma. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Clarifies Authority of Commission to Refuse Approval for Commutation Agreements | 05/24/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 71 | 0 | Popular with Employer | 22 min read | |||
| The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission can deny approval for an agreement between an employer and employee to commute the employee’s future award of benefits if the proposed lump sum is not equal to the commutable value of the future weekly payme...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Says Worker's Injuries Qualified as Accidental | 05/24/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 76 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 3 min read | |||
| A divided Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a government employee had suffered an incapacitating injury by way of “accident” from the overuse of her arm to type the reports required for a public health education program. ...Read More | |||
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TV Station Takes Seahawks to Task For Denying Claims | 05/24/2018 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 54 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 37 min read | |||
| A lawyer for Seattle Seahawks players complains that the team unfairly denies claims and that the Department of Labor & Industry “rubber-stamps” the self-insured football club’s decisions, according to ...Read More | |||
