The end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 saw a raft of new workers’ compensation regulations in several states, from formularies in Indiana and
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The laws of the state in which a workers’ compensation claim is filed control whether an injured worker has any standing to bring a negligence claim in
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While Medicare forbids physicians from referring patients to hospitals in which they own a stake, Nebraska’s workers’ compensation regulators have gone in a different direction and lifted
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As the Social Security system moves closer to insolvency, some are predicting that the federal government may take aim this year at the workers’ compensation
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Federal prosecutors say Michael D. Drobot doesn’t seem to understand that his champagne wishes and caviar dreams don’t take precedence over his obligation to relinquish
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Recreational and medical marijuana are legal in Massachusetts. But that has not solved the thorny problem of how to objectively differentiate between injured employees who are
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Treatment of injured workers who have low-back disk disorders is shifting away from surgery in many states, a trend that may be due to workers’ comp
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Applied Underwriters is asking a federal judge to ignore the reply brief that a group of California employers filed in support of their motion for
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Fifteen years from now, when injured Kentucky workers receive notice that their medical benefits are about to expire but that they can ask for an
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Lawmakers in Wyoming introduced legislation this week that would offer air ambulances twice what Medicare pays if they agree not to go after injured workers
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