An Ohio appellate court upheld a former correctional officer’s conviction for workers’ compensation fraud and theft based on his acceptance of temporary total disability benefits
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Prescription drug monitoring programs that physicians must access before dispensing medications helped reduce opioid use among injured workers, according to a recent presentation from the
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The Missouri Court of Appeals overturned a denial of benefits from the Second Injury Fund to a brewery worker with a lengthy history of injuries,
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A California appellate court ruled that a worker who was fired because of accounting discrepancies in the books she kept failed to state any claim
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A divided Mississippi Court of Appeals overturned a grant of partial summary judgment to a worker on her malpractice claim against the firm that had
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A Texas appellate court ruled that a worker could not proceed with her intentional infliction of emotional distress claim against her alleged employers and manager but
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The Supreme Court of New Hampshire revived an estate’s claim that a worker’s depression and anxiety from job-related stress was compensable, remanding for a determination of
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A Florida judge found that an air ambulance provider lacked standing to bring a lawsuit against the Office of Insurance Regulations to prohibit enforcement of
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Minnesota employers can’t be ordered to reimburse injured workers for medical cannabis because doing so would require them to violate federal law, the state’s high
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The California Division of Workers’ Compensation fined claims administrators a combined $868,318 and ordered them to make good on $332,826 in unpaid indemnity benefits following
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