
A plan by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to merge the understaffed Workers' Compensation Commission's Fraud Unit with the state Department of Insurance is being met
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The Montana Economic Affairs Interim Committee met to discuss an unexpected rate increase following the enactment of a cancer presumption for firefighters created last year.
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Reforms enacted in 2012 that required the Division of Workers' Compensation to transition to a medical fee schedule modeled after Medicare's Resource-Based Relative Value scale
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Thirteen years ago, a federal law authorized stiff penalties of up to $1,000 a day per claimant for insurers that fail to report information about
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In the eight months since Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appointed a risk manager and hired a claims administration firm to wade into the city's troubled
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The chairman of a Florida Senate committee said he will not hold a confirmation hearing for John MacIver, who was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis
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A pair of Hawaii legislative committees last week passed a bill that would change the method for calculating average weekly wages by removing a provision
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Raising indemnity amounts can prolong the duration of claims and increase payments for medical services, according to a new study by two economics professors.
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The Oregon state House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would give some 650 firefighters in Portland the same workers' compensation presumption
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In the backyard of some of the largest workers' compensation insurers in the country, a group of injured workers, doctors, lawyers and union representatives have
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