Workers' Compensation News
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OSHA Fines Company $54K After Worker Is Killed in Scrap-Metal Pit | 10/31/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A 50-year-old steelworker died in June after falling into a scrap-metal pit at the Plainfield, Illinois, processing facility where he worked. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Cites Animal Feed Company With 25 Serious Violations | 10/31/2016 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A report of unsafe working conditions led OSHA investigators to a Nebraska animal feed company, where they found employees were exposed to explosion risks from grain dust, electrical shock and multiple other ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Cites Custom Trailer Manufacturer in Worker's Death | 10/31/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The absence of safety pins in two hydraulic leg stands and the lack of stationary jacks caused a mobile medical trailer to fall and crush to death a 58-year-old electrician on his first day of work for an Illinois manufacturer of custom trailers, OSHA said. ...Read More | |||
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Old Republic Net Income Dips 11.9% in 3rd Quarter | 10/28/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Old Republic International Corp. on Thursday reported net income of $110.9 million for the third quarter of 2016, down 11.9% from $125.9 million in the prior-year quarter. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Fines Company $244K for Carbon Monoxide, Asbestos Exposure | 10/20/2016 | |
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| State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined an asbestos abatement company $243,716 for exposing workers to carbon monoxide and asbestos while renovating a Wisconsin nursing home. ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Fines 3 Companies $147K Total for Fall Protection Hazards | 10/20/2016 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Three Ohio companies violated workplace safety standards this summer by exposing workers to 60-foot falls at a Columbus work site, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
| OSHA Will Further Delay Enforcement of Anti-Retaliation Measure | 10/20/2016 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The federal workplace safety agency has agreed to further delay the enforcement of a new rule's anti-retaliation provisions until Dec. 1 while a lawsuit plays out. A workers' compensation insurer, several trade organizations and three employers ...Read More | |||
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OSHA Fines Plumbing Contractor $276K for Failing to Correct Hazards | 10/13/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Injured worker | |||
| The federal workplace safety agency fined Illinois contractor Og Plumbing about $276,000 and placed it in a monitoring program for severe violators after the contractor failed to correct safety hazards. ...Read More | |||
| Occ Docs Propose Ways to Improve UR Quality | 10/11/2016 | ||
| By: Elaine Goodman (medical/business reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| One reason utilization review bogs down is because providers requesting treatment and agents conducting the review have difficulty contacting each other to exchange information, according to a group of occupational medicine physicians. But the group has proposed a solution, as one part of...Read More | |||
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Opinions of Doctors Who Provided Initial Treatment to Injured Worker Weren't Admissible | 10/10/2016 | |
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| By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court on Friday ruled that medical reports from doctors with whom a claimant had consulted without authorization from his employer were not admissible to support the claim. ...Read More | |||
