Since 2014, the percentage of indemnity claims involving a major surgery in the first two years has declined one percentage point per year, falling from 28% of the 2014 claims to 23% of the 2019 claims, according to a study released Monday by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. The study tracked treatment patterns in the …
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A contractor and an equipment operator are both facing first-degree reckless endangerment charges in Vernon, Connecticut, following a fatal trench collapse that resulted in willful violations with proposed penalties of $375,021 issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Special agents with the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General and detectives with the Town …
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CompScience Insurance Services on Monday announced a managing general agent agreement with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Swiss Re Ltd. to underwrite, bind and service workers compensation policies that will engage the company’s intelligence safety platform to help reduce costs. The platform has been shown to “significantly reduce claims through actuarial analysis” by detecting previously …
(Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by Uber Technologies Inc. and subsidiary Postmates Inc. challenging a California law that makes it more difficult for them to save money by treating workers as independent contractors. In a major win for app-based services that heavily rely on contractors, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state …
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A Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Friday that the state’s medical marijuana law does not prohibit insurers from reimbursing injured workers for medical marijuana in cases where the drug is used to treat accepted work injuries. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that the state’s Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board erred when it upheld a decision by Firestone …
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South Carolina officials have filed another federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor over a requirement that the state’s maximum civil penalties in workplace safety citations match or exceed those of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District in Columbia, challenges the requirement that the South Carolina State …
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A federal appeals court has denied a bid by a transit agency to dismiss a lawsuit by an injured worker who claims he was hurt after being forced to work an overnight shift, despite seeking accommodations for a sleep disorder. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Wednesday that a disability …
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For the second week in a row, news about Allianz leads the BI Top 10. Also of note: Shareholders sued top executives in connection with the high-profile failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Source link
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Thursday announced it has cited BP Products North America Inc. after investigators determined the oil company failed to adequately train its workforce after two employees suffered fatal burns. The Houston-based company, a subsidiary of BP of the United Kingdom, was cited for 10 serious violations and one other-than-serious …
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Vertical integration in medicine is driving up patient care pricing in workers compensation, and provider consolidation is not necessarily translating to improvements in patient outcomes, according to research from the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The study released Thursday, Impact of Medical Provider Consolidation on Workers’ Compensation Payments, examined the impact of provider vertical integration …
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