California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones signed a pair of precedential decisions before Thanksgiving ordering a carrier to pay back any money it collected based on
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Spinal cord stimulators led to nearly 80,000 medical-device injury reports to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over a 10-year period, making them the third
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Some 15 years after a group of board members first discussed a plan to turn a South Carolina home builders’ self-insurance fund into a mutual
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The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services is drafting legislation that would double the minimum statutory balance for the Workers' Benefit Fund, which pays for inflation adjustments
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Almost three years after a landmark Florida Supreme Court decision that struck down statutory limits on attorneys’ fees, the new president of the state Senate
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Following months of public hearings and rewrites, the Vermont Department of Labor chose to withdraw a proposed update to the state’s vocational rehabilitation rules because
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Fresno County prosecutors allege a suspect hired a hit man to kill the lawyer who successfully defended his attorney from malpractice allegations after the California
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Louisiana, a state with a high rate of opioid prescribing, had the highest prescription cost per workers’ comp claim for 2015 injuries among 18 states featured in
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A high-tech twist on a compounding medication scheme could be seen as a cautionary tale on the growing use of telemedicine in workers’ compensation.
The arrest
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Consumer privacy legislation that California lawmakers rushed through the Capitol to fend off a ballot initiative could be extremely disruptive for the state’s workers’ compensation
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