Workers' Compensation News
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Paradigm Outcomes Announces Expansion of Catastrophic Care Solutions | 08/02/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Paradigm Outcomes announced that it has expanded its clinical services as a result of purchasing several assets from Best Doctors Inc. ...Read More | |||
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Prescription Drugs, First Responder Benefits Popular Issues With Lawmakers | 08/02/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Lawmakers in nearly every state considered legislation addressing prescription drugs this year, with 20 focusing on issues directly relating to workers’ compensation, including physician dispensing and opioid use, according to a new report released Wednesday by the National Council on ...Read More | |||
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Policy Institute Chronicles Cost to City of 'Modest' Comp Claims | 07/31/2018 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Policy Institute says that the city of Belleville, Illinois, has spent $420,000 settling workers’ compensation claims by employees this year, with much of that money going to workers who returned to their jobs the day after the injury. ...Read More | |||
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Panel Finds Corporate Veil Shields Claimant From Lien Stay | 07/30/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Three Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board commissioners found that criminal charges against a director of a parent corporation don’t necessarily trigger the stay on liens filed by a subsidiary, but identified other unanswered questions about what exactly California lawmakers want...Read More | |||
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Profitable Q2 at The Hartford Includes Favorable Work Comp Development | 07/30/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Hartford has reported second quarter net income of $582 million, a reversal of a $40 million net loss in the second quarter of 2017...Read More | |||
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Panel Upholds Award for Hearing Loss Despite Worker's Long Delay in Filing Claim | 07/27/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel upheld an award of benefits to a worker for his hearing loss, even though he did not file his claim until years after he told his doctor he was aware he was losing his hearing. ...Read More | |||
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ProAssurance Promotes Dana Hendricks to CFO | 07/27/2018 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| ProAssurance Corp. has named Dana Hendricks as the company’s chief financial officer, effective Sept. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Pew to Be Keynote Speaker at Texas WC Conference Sept. 10 | 07/27/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Nationally known workers' compensation expert Mark Pew will talk about how automation and the coming "brain drain" will impact workers' comp in the next decade, at the Insurance Council of Texas' workers' compensation ...Read More | |||
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Psychologist Disciplined for Failing to Review Records in Disability Evaluations | 07/24/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Southern California psychologist was censured for failing to review medical records in at least four disability evaluations conducted for the Social Security Administration. ...Read More | |||
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Provider Ousted After Pleading Guilty to Health Care Fraud | 07/23/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New York Workers’ Compensation Board announced last week that it has removed one medical provider from the state workers’ comp system and reinstated another. ...Read More | |||
