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Chiros in CA the Target in LA Times Story
08/18/2003
The workers' compensation woes of Safeway Inc. was in the news on Sunday as the Los Angeles Times ran a story on how chiropractic bills have run that company's California workers' compensation costs far higher than any of the other 19 states the company operates in.
Saying that the same boxers
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IL Quadraplegia Case Goes to Commission re Van
08/14/2003
was terminally ill with cancer. She has since died.
The employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier Fremont Compensation Insurance Group paid McKenzie's medical bills and weekly workers' compensation benefits. However Fremont refused to provide McKenzie with a handicap-accessible
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AU Small Businesses Hit Hard by Work Comp
08/12/2003
of Australia are calling for small businesses to rise up and reform workers compensation laws throughout the country and in particular those in New South Wales which is seen as particularly onerous on business. One story has a small business not only footing 90 of an injured worker's medical bills
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NAII Has High Hopes for CA Legislators on Comp
08/12/2003
NAII press release
Several bills of interest to the California propertycasualty insurance industry- including proposals to reform the workers' compensation system and address privacy issues- are pending on the Senate and Assembly floors. The Senate and the Assembly recessed after passing the
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Ohio Boasts of Successful Fraud Program
08/11/2003
training all SIU staff to investigate health care cases. In fiscal year 2003 the department identified more than 17 million in savings from provider fraud cases.
This includes identifying 500000 in savings from a Cleveland case involving a family of chiropractors who were upcoding bills and
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OH Declares Fraud Awareness Week
08/05/2003
claims an inability to work yet holds down a job while collecting workers' comp benefits. A health-care provider who bills for services never provided.
Ten years ago there was a good chance these subjects of these investigations would successfully steal from the system; today they would likely
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CA: Garamendi Says All Must Pay for Comp System
07/31/2003
have to squeeze the providers. We have no choice."
Of all of the pending 'reform' bills now before the legislature Garamendi said "Let a thousand flowers bloom and then we're going to pluck a bouquet."
Garamendi downplaying the recall of Governor Gray Davis said that workers' comp should
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OH: High Claim Rate for Public School System
07/30/2003
Employees at the Dayton Ohio school system which currently employs over 1600 teachers and bus drivers are finding themselves answering phones and performing other transitional jobs in an effort to reduce the district's escalating workers' compensation benefit payments and medical bills.
In
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OR Lawmakers May Raid SAIF Reserves To Pay Bills
07/29/2003
Oregon State Treasurer Randall Edwards is running out of options. With State lawmakers set to haggle over large spending issues well into August Edwards must come up with a way to pay the State's bills with no budget approval in sight.
Edwards who had planned to issue notes against future tax
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Poochigian Says Conference Must be 'Open'
07/24/2003
' Compensation reform it must be an "open conference committee" meaning that all ideas for reform are considered instead of allowing the committee to only consider those bills which were sent to the Conference from the Assembly and Senate. Additionally Ms. Topp encouraged CCWC and its members to move beyond
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