State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 294 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The New York Workers' Compensation Board kicked a Middletown psychiatrist out of the system Monday after he lost his license to practice medicine in the state last week.
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State: KS | Segment: NORTH | 459 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The Kansas Supreme Court last week overturned the convictions of three workers who had used false Social Security numbers to obtain employment in the restaurant industry.
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 226 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation Division updated the training manual for independent medical examiners by adding new information about provider expectations, and tips to avoid complaints by injured workers.
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State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 213 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
The Commonwealth Court ruled that an injured worker failed to meet his burden of establishing material aggravation of a pre-existing condition from a prior industrial accident.
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 197 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The Workers Compensation Research Institute will hold a one-hour webinar on opioid prescription trends on Sept. 28.
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 321 | 0 | Popular with Legal
What started as a recommendation for a small increase in California’s pure premium rate turned out to be a somewhat more significant decrease instead.
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 420 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation Division announced the standard lodging reimbursement rate will increase by 2.2%, effective Oct. 1.
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 185 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Permanent rules that were proposed after the Oregon Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. SAIF will take effect on Oct. 8, the Workers’ Compensation Division announced Friday.
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State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 359 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s widow was time-barred from proceeding with her negligence claims against the general contractor on the construction project where her husband sustained fatal injuries from a falling beam.
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 381 | 0 | Popular with Legal
A Niagara Falls woman has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after forging her dead mother’s name on benefit checks her mother had been receiving since the work-related death of her husband 20 years earlier.
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