
Long-term prescribing of opioids to workers with low-back injuries led to temporary disability durations that were more than three times the length of disability among
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New York's workers' compensation system in 2017 appeared to have added a bit of oil to the machine, with increasingly timely payments by insurers, fewer
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Michael R. Drobot, the son of the former owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for operating
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Even though Tennessee is among states that do not license insurance adjusters, the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation is developing a voluntary certification program for claims
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Almost half of the medical providers who have been kicked out of California’s workers’ compensation system under a new fraud-fighting law were never charged with fraud.
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After a marathon battle in New York last session that ended with significant workers’ comp reforms sought by labor and business, the dozen or so
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Florida lawmakers this year approved benefits for first responders who suffer from PTSD, but other changes to the state's workers' compensation system — long sought by
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Sending a “get well” card to an employee who has recently been injured is one step that can be used as part of an advocacy-based
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There is no wiggle room in the five-year statutory cap on the duration of temporary disability benefits, California’s 4th District Court of Appeals said in
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A single-payer health care program that covers occupational injuries could undo the grand bargain of workers' compensation and open the doors for lawsuits over workplace
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