Steven Howser was convicted of conspiring to pay $8,000 in kickbacks to a Southern California doctor who ordered durable medical equipment from his company. As a result,
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Intrathecal pumps, drug-delivery systems that have been controversial in workers’ compensation, are the subject of a warning issued Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug
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Backroom negotiations and lobbyist involvement are rarely associated with changes that benefit the many over the few. But talks this week between business groups and
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Expectations about the impact Jerry Brown would have on California’s workers’ compensation system at the start of his second stint as governor haven’t exactly matched
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Stakeholders of all stripes were stunned Wednesday to hear that Pennsylvania's state rating bureau early this year had based a rate increase on bad data,
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Eight states have been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor to participate in a five-year, $100 million pilot project that seeks to develop early intervention
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Oregon claimants' attorneys say efforts to bring their pay more in line with what workers’ compensation defense attorneys are paid haven’t worked, and the Workers’ Compensation Board
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Physicians in Colorado will soon face stricter limits on their dispensing of opioids to injured workers, in the latest example of states taking aim at
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After years of spiraling workers’ compensation premiums and little action from lawmakers, the outlook has become so dire that West Virginia volunteer firefighters are now
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Having recently approved an eighth consecutive advisory pure premium rate cut, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has one last workers’ compensation issue to address, with
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