Workers' Compensation News
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Property Owner Held Personally Liable for Benefits to Laborer | 03/22/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 130 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 11 min read | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld an award of benefits to a worker who was injured in a car accident while being driven to a private residence. ...Read More | |||
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Pain Management Specialist Harsh Dangaria Joins PPOA | 03/21/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 83 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 41 min read | |||
| Dr. Harsh Dangaria has joined Physician Partners of America at the company’s newest interventional pain management clinics in Jacksonville and Orange Park, Florida. ...Read More | |||
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Principles of Fairness Barred Worker From Changing Position | 03/15/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 129 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 6 min read | |||
| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that a worker who successfully pursued a claim for permanent total disability benefits for a 1983 knee injury could not later take the position that he had actually been permanently and totally disabled by an earlier injury. ...Read More | |||
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Police Benefits Bill Held Hostage, Widow Says | 03/15/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 137 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 81 min read | |||
| A bill that would improve the death benefits for families of police officers killed in the line of duty is being held hostage because the police union opposes other bills that would affect pensions and workers' compensation benefits, a Louisville police widow charged this week. ...Read More | |||
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Paradigm Outcomes Announces Three Executive Appointments | 03/14/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 311 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 51 min read | |||
| Paradigm Outcomes, a provider of medical management for catastrophic injuries in workers’ comp, has announced three senior management appointments. ...Read More | |||
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Pharmacist, Assistant Sent to Prison for Compounding Scheme | 03/14/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 592 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 28 min read | |||
| A Florida pharmacist was sentenced to 17 years in prison, and his assistant to more than 15 years, for paying kickbacks to health care providers who prescribed compounded drugs in a scheme that defrauded government health care programs of $30 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office...Read More | |||
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Pinellas County Doctor Pleads Guilty to Receiving Compound-Drug Kickbacks | 03/12/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 187 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 7 min read | |||
| A doctor in Pinellas County has pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks, as well as a $72,000 luxury car, for prescribing compounded pain creams that cost between $900 and $21,000 for a one-month supply. ...Read More | |||
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Passage of Time Didn't Break Causal Connection | 03/07/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 156 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 1 min read | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that the passage of five years between the date of a worker’s compensable physical injury and the date she was diagnosed with depression did not mean that her condition was not compensable, as a matter of law. ...Read More | |||
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Pain Management Doctor Charged in Kickback Scheme | 03/07/2018 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 267 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 18 min read | |||
| A pain management doctor in Passaic County has been charged with first-degree conspiracy and money laundering for an alleged kickback scheme that netted him more than $500,000. ...Read More | |||
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Property Owner Had No Liability to Worker Who Was Launched by Equipment Mishap | 03/07/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 220 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 29 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a property owner was not liable to a worker who suffered serious head injuries from being launched into the air when a piece of machinery struck the pile of crushed cars where he was standing. ...Read More | |||
