Illinois doctors who treat injured workers are celebrating after the state House of Representatives this week gave final approval to a measure that will put some
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The U.S. Department of Justice is threatening to sue Washington state over a new law that presumes cancer, respiratory disease and other specified conditions arose
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Drug company Pfizer has received a six-month patent extension for Lyrica, a non-opioid medication used to treat pain and a top drug in workers’ comp.
The
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida — What happens when regulations require that surgical implant charges be based on a manufacturer’s invoice, but there is no manufacturer’s invoice? Or
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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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