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Pharmacist Gets Benefits for Injuries From Investigating Alarm | 09/17/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 85 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 9 min read | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a pharmacist for his injuries from a fall that happened after he was called in to work on Christmas day to investigate a security alarm's sounding. ...Read More | |||
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Court Orders DOES to Revisit Question of Whether Employer Can Terminate Worker's Benefits | 09/17/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 60 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 4 min read | |||
| The District of Columbia’s highest court is ordering the Department of Employment Services to revisit its determination that an employer failed to prove a change in a worker’s condition that would warrant a termination of her disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Bureau Posts New Rules on Black-Lung Fund Premiums | 09/17/2018 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 93 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 51 min read | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation is accepting comments on proposed changes to rules governing the Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Fund. ...Read More | |||
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Report Shows Claims Are Up, Bucking National Trend | 09/17/2018 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 90 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 34 min read | |||
| Virginia has seen a big jump in alternative dispute resolutions, requiring it to hire five new mediators. The state has also seen an increase in claims and first reports of injuries, bucking a national trend of declining claims frequency. ...Read More | |||
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Self-Represented Worker Forfeits Appeal Due to Inadequacies in Brief | 09/17/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 78 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 10 min read | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that a self-represented worker’s failure to comply with the rules of appellate procedure resulted in the forfeiture of his arguments. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Family's Labor Law Claim After Death of Worker | 09/17/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 137 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 6 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a family’s Labor Law claims for a worker’s death from being crushed by a 27,450-pound piece of air conditioning equipment. ...Read More | |||
| Assigned Risk Rate to Decline 0.7% | 09/17/2018 | ||
| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 76 | 0 | Popular with Insurance | 6 min read | |||
| Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Jessica Looman has approved a 0.7% decrease in the assigned risk rate, to take effect Jan. 1, the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Insurers Association announced last week. The Assigned Risk Plan will continue to use a pure premium multiplier of 2...Read More | |||
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DWC Posts New Rules on Opting Out of Self-Insurance | 09/17/2018 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 141 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 140 min read | |||
| In keeping with House Bill 1989, passed in 2017, The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation has proposed ...Read More | |||
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Feds to Collect $1.2M From Bill Mill, Secure Guilty Plea in Kickback Case | 09/14/2018 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1486 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 56 min read | |||
| A federal judge in Northern California on Thursday ordered Pain Free Diagnostics Inc. to deposit $1.2 million into the court’s registry to pay restitution to more than two dozen carriers it defrauded through a billing scheme. ...Read More | |||
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Average Charged Rates Fall Below 2012 Levels | 09/14/2018 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 232 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 17 min read | |||
| California employers, on average, paid $2.38 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation coverage in the first three months of the year, according to a first quarter report published by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. ...Read More | |||
