Workers' Compensation News
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Employer's Failure to Offer Position to Injured Worker Didn't Entitle Her to Additional Benefits | 04/12/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a former employee of the state Department of Correction was not entitled to additional benefits based on her employer’s failure to offer a position after she was cleared to return to work. ...Read More | |||
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Employers Group Spreading Word That Burgess Puts Medical Costs in Crosshairs | 04/11/2018 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| There's a new sheriff in town who won't allow price gouging on medications, or loopholes for exorbitantly priced, repackaged drugs. And soon, he'll be coming after high prices charged by outpatient clinics. ...Read More | |||
| EK Health Teams Up With MLB on Managed Care Program | 04/11/2018 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| EK Health has announced a partnership with Major League Baseball for a national managed care program. EK Health will provide case management, utilization review, medical bill review and provider network management to MLB. The partnership also includes Fairly Group, an insurance br...Read More | |||
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Employers Oppose Bill to Cover Police Officers Injured Out of State | 04/10/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Employers say a bill that would allow California peace officers to seek workers’ compensation benefits for injuries that occur outside of the state would unnecessarily create a gray area in the state’s workers’ compensation law. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Wasn't Entitled to Presumption That Worker's Drug Use Caused Accident | 04/10/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| 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. ...Read More | |||
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Estate Has to Pay $650,000 for Deceased Doctor's Overbillings | 04/09/2018 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Pennsylvania physician fraudulently upcoded medical treatments on injured postal workers for more than 10 years, and now his estate has agreed to pay $625,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations, the U.S. Attorney ...Read More | |||
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Express Scripts Names Mike Cirillo President of myMatrixx | 04/04/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Express Scripts Holding Co. has named Mike Cirillo president of myMatrixx, a workers’ comp pharmacy benefit manager that Express Scripts acquired in May 2017. ...Read More | |||
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End of an Era as DIR Director Christine Baker Abruptly Retires | 04/03/2018 | |
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| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 6 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations since 2011, has retired. ...Read More | |||
| Eight Providers Suspended for Fraud or Loss of License | 04/03/2018 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Eight medical providers were suspended from the California workers’ comp system — five for fraud and three because they lost their medical licenses, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced Monday. The new suspension orders, signed by Administrative Director ...Read More | |||
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EK Health Hires Eastern, Western Sales Executives | 04/03/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| EK Health has hired Stephanie Reynolds and Dieter Pinner as sales executives for the Western and Eastern regions, respectively. ...Read More | |||
