Workers' Compensation News
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Two States Seek Names of Patients of Pain Clinic Caught Reusing Syringes
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07/23/2014
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State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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More than eight months after a case of bacterial meningitis triggered an investigation of a pain management clinic five miles south of Wheeling, health officials in West Virginia and Ohio are urging the clinic’s former patients to get tested for bloodborne infections.
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TV Ads Target Kasich in Bid to Get BWC to Drop Its Appeal
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07/22/2014
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The long-running legal battle over roughly $860 million that trial and appellate courts say the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation owes to thousands of businesses has become an issue in Gov. John Kasich’s re-election campaign, the Toledo Blade newspaper reported.
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Travelers Sues NFL over Duty to Defend against Drug-Use Suit
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07/18/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A New York state court judge is being asked to decide whether the Travelers Insurance Co. should be on the hook for defending the National Football League from a pending federal action in California by a group of former athletes who claim the league's promotion of their use of painkillers and...Read More
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Teacher Files Comp Claim after Breaking up Fight with Broom
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07/11/2014
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State: MI | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Detroit high school teacher who was thrust into the national spotlight when a video of her using a broom to break up a fight between students hit the internet has filed a workers' compensation claim asserting that she is too traumatized to return to duty.While ...Read More
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Truck Drivers Protest Independent Contractor Status
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07/10/2014
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State: GA | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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About three dozen truck drivers staged a protest on Tuesday at the Port of Savannah because of their status as independent contractors, according to a local news report.The truck drivers say their status deprives them of workers’ compensation benefits and prevents them from negotia...Read More
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TDI: Combined Denial/Dispute Rates Don't Tell Whole Story
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07/09/2014
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State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Joey BerlinSouthern Bureau ChiefAre nearly half of all workers’ compensation claims in Texas either initially denied outright or disputed in some fashion?Technically, statistics show the answer is ...Read More
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Tow Driver Ordered to Pay Restitution for Double Dipping
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07/09/2014
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State: OH | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A county court has ordered a Logan, Ohio, man to pay the Bureau of Workers' Compensation $2,376 for receiving injury benefits while working.Shannon Rager knowingly received benefits from the BWC but took on work as a tow truck driver and mechanic, according to a ...Read More
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Teague Campbell Poaches 3 from Competing Defense Firm
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07/09/2014
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Teague Campbell has added three attorneys to its Raleigh, North Carolina, office starting July 3, all of them previous employees of Wilson Jones Carter & Baxley, the law firm announced in a press release.Scott Farwell has been practicing since 2006 and currently focuses exclusively o...Read More
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Two Former Pill Mill Owners Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
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06/30/2014
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State: GA | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Two owners of an Atlanta "pill mill" have been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for feeding a stream of prescription painkillers to addicts.Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos, who owned the Atlanta Medical Group, pulled in millions of dollars du...Read More
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