Workers’ compensation claim frequency increased for the second year in a row among private self-insured employers in California in 2018, bucking a decades-long national trend
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The California Department of Insurance will hear public testimony on proposed rules intended to improve carrier fraud investigations, during a Sept. 5 hearing in Sacramento.
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The New York State Department of Financial Services has fined Applied Underwriters $3 million for offering workers’ compensation insurance bundled with side agreements that weren't
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Although California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara pledged not to accept money from the industry he regulates as part of his 2018 campaign, four months into
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Perhaps the state workers’ compensation system does need fixing, as the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association and Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio assert, but an attempt by Rubio and
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A federal judge allowed the Illinois Public Risk Fund to proceed with a lawsuit accusing more than 30 drug manufacturers and individuals of negligent and
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The U.S. workers’ compensation market is on track for another year of underwriting profit, a trend that analysts at Fitch Ratings expect to continue into 2020.
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Utilization reviews in Connecticut are required only in managed care plans, and anyone who says otherwise is subject to fines and penalties.
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Two years after workers’ comp insurer BrickStreet Mutual announced an affiliation with Motorists Insurance Group, the combined companies have rebranded as Encova Mutual Insurance Group.
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A pain management physician in Oklahoma has placed the blame for the opioid crisis at least partly at the feet of the state's workers' compensation laws
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