The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has revised its proposed rule on what types of traumatic scenes may qualify a first responder for wage
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Stakeholders are welcoming the California Division of Workers’ Compensation proposal to simplify the rules on subsequent reports of injuries, saying the current data reporting requirements
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Telemedicine services are expanding in workers’ comp, raising a number of potential questions. Should telemedicine be allowed for an injured worker’s initial visit, in which
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Cases of workers’ compensation premium fraud, worker misclassification and fake insurance certificates have become so widespread in the construction business that legitimate contractors say they
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Coventry Health Care Workers’ Compensation Inc. has reported to patients that an unlicensed doctor involved in determining whether to approve treatment requested for injured workers in
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Even though a new report shows that the flood of insurance company impairments seen in the early 2000s has now slowed to a trickle, one
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Kansas, a state that has seen a decade of cuts to workers’ compensation benefits, could become a little more worker-friendly after today, regardless of whether
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Older employees who are hurt on the job tend to have more severe injuries than their younger counterparts, a trend that is quantified in a
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Texas could soon become the only U.S. state to require insurance carriers, when taking over policies of previously self-insured employers, to cover all claims incurred
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For now, the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division is sticking to a previous decision that platelet-rich plasma is a non-compensable treatment for injured workers, but its medical
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