State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 232 | 0 | Popular with Legal
A Tampa man is accused of stealing a child’s Social Security number to obtain employment and then collect $21,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.
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State: ME | Segment: NORTH | 236 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Medical care is taking a larger share of total workers’ compensation spending across the country, but Maine appears to be on a different track.
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State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 314 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired John Scroope to manage its New England regional operations. Scroope will also lead the company’s corporate headquarters office in Boston.
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State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 446 | 0 | Popular with Legal
A Jackson woman faces up to five years in prison and $15,000 in fines over allegations that she committed one count of workers’ compensation fraud.
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 287 | 0 | Popular with Legal
A 55-year-old Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to taking nearly $10,000 in workers’ compensation benefits after returning to work, the state Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General’s Office said.
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 823 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The final round of briefs filed ahead of next week’s hearing on a constitutional challenge to the automatic stay on liens filed by providers charged with fraud focuses heavily on whether California lawmakers cured the alleged due process violations this year.
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 302 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has released a new data tool that allows its members to analyze various aspects of claims experience from eight regions in California using data from 2007 to 2016.
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 871 | 0 | Popular with Legal
The Division of Workers’ Compensation sent a notice of intent to suspend Paul Randall, a marketer who pleaded guilty in 2012 to paying kickbacks to providers who referred patients to Tri-City Regional Medical Center for spinal surgeries.
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 261 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Although some researchers have said that automation puts half of U.S. jobs at risk, a new report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance says the situation is not nearly that dire.
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State: OK | Segment: Top | 174 | 0 | Popular with Legal
Three drug-court defendants have sued the diversion program that put them to work, for no wages, at a chicken-processing plant, saying the program violates the 13th Amendment’s ban on involuntary servitude.
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