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	You Can't Get Film Unless You Go Where They Go		06/17/2006

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	Fraud is an ever present factor throughout the world of insurance. Workers' Compensation may have the strongest attraction to those inclined to cheat the system due to the legal mandate requiring universal coverage. Whatever the reason, there is plenty of fraud in "them thar Workers' Comp hills" and...Read More


	You Must Fight Fire with Fire; Admissible Evidence		08/17/2003

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	The workcompcentral.com Professional Forums continue to be a ripe resource for instructive materials. The following are excerpts from a recent on line discussion in the Forums on ...Read More


	Your Medical Destiny is Within Your Control		07/06/2003

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	Click on the "Employer" tab on this site and you'll find a lot of discussion about medical control. The fight for medical control during the first 30 days following a work injury is critical to the employer for contr...Read More

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OH - Woman Ordered to Pay Restitution for Spending Dead Boyfriend's Benefit Funds

10/23/2017 | 188 | 0 | 0 min read

The boyfriend died, but the workers’ comp checks kept coming. Because 58-year-old Suzette Hedrick of Toledo, Ohio, cashed the checks, she has a choice of reimbursing the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation $18,576 or serve 10 months in prison, the BWC said in a press release Friday. A Lucas County judge on Oct. 5 sentenced Hendrik to five years of probation after she pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a fifth-degree felony, the bureau said. Hendrick’s boyfriend, whom the bureau did not identify, was receiving permanent total disability benefits until his death on Oct. 3, . Read More

TX - Imprisoned Doctors' Luxury Cars, Diamond-Covered Rolexes Up for Auction

10/23/2017 | 112 | 0 | 0 min read

The federal government is auctioning off 21 luxury cars seized from two doctors who are serving long prison sentences for running a pill mill in Mobile, Alabama. Gold jewelry and a series of Rolex watches covered in diamonds will also be auctioned Saturday at the Hilton Austin Airport, KSAT-TV 12 reports. The items were seized from John Patrick Couch and Xiulu Ruan, who became rich from selling instant-release fentanyl drugs off-label for neck, back and joint pain. The highly addictive opioid, produced by a company called Subsys, was approved only to trea. Read More

WA - L&I: Unregistered Contractor Behind on Premium Payments

10/23/2017 | 67 | 0 | min read

The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries said a contractor charged with felony theft for collecting payments for projects he never started owed $6,500 in workers’ compensation premiums and another $12,000 for unregistered contracting. Jesse Scott Espinoza, owner of Jesse’s Custom Concrete, is accused of accepting a total of $5,000 in down payments for two jobs that he allegedly abandoned. According to L&I, Espinoza did not work a single day on either project and never returned the money. What’s more, the department said it suspended Espinoza’s . Read More

CA - Former DIR Director Duncan Joins Sacramento Lobbying Group

10/23/2017 | 84 | 0 | 0 min read

Cal Capitol Group, a lobbying firm in Sacramento, announced that former Department of Industrial Relations Director John Duncan joined the company as a senior executive. John Duncan Duncan was director of the DIR from 2007 to 2011, and served as chairman of the California Public Employment Relations Board from 2004 to 2007. He worked as vice president of government affairs for US HealthWorks from 2012 to 2016, and held the same title at Western Dental Services, where he worked since 2016. Cal Capitol Group said Duncan’s expertise and communication skills, as well as his contacts an. Read More

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