
Two years after workers’ comp insurer BrickStreet Mutual announced an affiliation with Motorists Insurance Group, the combined companies have rebranded as Encova Mutual Insurance Group.
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A pain management physician in Oklahoma has placed the blame for the opioid crisis at least partly at the feet of the state's workers' compensation laws
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A bill that would give a pay raise of at least 50% to physicians performing workers’ comp medical-legal evaluations has been introduced in the California
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Air ambulance charges, long a thorn in the side of insurers and workers' compensation fee-schedule proponents, are out of line with other medical charges and
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Drug company payments may be influencing doctors to prescribe brand name gabapentinoids — pain-killing drugs sometimes used as a substitute for opioids — rather than less expensive
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Fifty years ago this month, the world's attention was focused on man's first landing on the moon. It was history in the making and arguably the
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The Assembly Insurance Committee on Wednesday approved a bill creating a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is a compensable injury for California police and firefighters, and
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A New Jersey task force is recommending a robust, multipronged approach to fight the growing problem of worker misclassification, including legislation and new rules that
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California medical-legal providers say their billing disputes would be put on hold until the case-in-chief is resolved, under proposed changes to Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
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The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries launched a rulemaking process intended to help shift the focus of vocational rehabilitation services from determining benefit
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