Texas firefighters and their attorneys are hoping the Legislature will close some gaps in the state's cancer presumption law that they say have made it easier for
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The California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery is under new management as of July 1, following the departure of Carl Brakensiek, who had led
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A federal judge ordered Michael R. Drobot to appear in person for a hearing to determine whether he should be held in contempt for allegedly
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Federal prosecutors have announced a guilty plea and a settlement agreement in two more compounding pharmacy kickback schemes, one of which involved $400 million in
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Positive trends including downward loss development, accelerating claim settlement rates, and a drop in both pharmaceutical costs and new lien filings are continuing to drive
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A workers’ comp lost-time claim involving a head or brain injury costs on average about $70,000, but if the injury was sustained in a motor
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The dragnet targeting pharmaceutical manufacturers that pay medical providers to write opioid prescriptions has continued to widen.
Two months after an Insys Therapeutics sales representative pleaded
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SACRAMENTO, California — State lawmakers on Wednesday requested an audit comparing medical treatment provided to inmates who were injured while assigned to work details with the
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A federal project that seeks to reconfigure the methods used to get injured and sick employees back to work as soon as possible has taken its
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A study committee is just a week away from finalizing a draft of legislation that would take Alabama’s permanent partial disability benefits from the lowest
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