01/11/2006
.
Calderon the lawmaker-turned-lobbyist said Assembly Bill 228 was never intended to impose a fee schedule as strict as the one that DWC has proposed. Calderon was author of that 2003 reform bill.
However Brenda Ramirez medical director of the California Workers' Compensation Institute said the
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01/10/2006
AUSTIN -- Public Employee Counsel Norman Darwin announced Monday that he selected Dorian Ramirez a 14-year veteran with Texas' workers' compensation agencies as deputy public counsel for the Office of Injured Employee Counsel OIEC.
Ramirez' appointment is the first reported by Darwin
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12/17/2005
that generally contain evidence of debilitating
and permanent alterations in lifestyle. See e.g. Ramirez v. Off
Track Betting 112 F.3d 38 2d Cir. 1997 award of 500000
appropriate where the plaintiff's psychiatric difficulties had become
so severe after his discharge that he was
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12/09/2005
restitution to ACCA. He also was fined 547 and placed on five years' probation.
Ortiz -- whose true name was Everardo Ramirez Vega -- used the alias to conceal his identity because he had a workers' compensation claim on file with his last employer the Ventura County District Attorney said in a separate
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11/04/2005
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CHARLES SHEPPARD FARMS
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11/04/2005
regulators not to make changes unless they were absolutely necessary to meet new legal requirements.
The nine pages of comments were signed by Communications Director Robert Young General Counsel and Vice President Michael McClain and Medical and Rehabilitation Director Brenda Ramirez. The entire
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10/31/2005
union's apprenticeship program.
Ramona Ramirez of Santa Maria was chosen to lead the VIAW group in Assembly Districts 33 and 35. She has been featured in the organization's newsletter and testified in support of SB 1023 before the Assembly Insurance Committee.
Juan Carlos Lemus has taken an
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10/20/2005
and Michigan have restricted illegal aliens' right to collect benefits and no state has upheld a total ban on benefits.
An Associated Press report on the decision quoted Andy Ramirez a spokesman for Friends of the Border Patrol in Covina a Los Angeles suburb.
"We can't reward people for
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09/29/2005
Ramirez medical director for the insurance-industry group.
The CWCI examined 107194 low back soft tissue complaints from 1997 to 2002 and measured the number of Temporary Disability days taken the cost of treatment and the cost of Temporary Disability and Permanent Disability payments made for
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09/22/2005
. "It focuses on cutting costs for workers' compensation by providing top-quality care rather than angling for deep discounts from doctors who will take them. It is an unusual approach but is catching on."
The article tells the story of hospital worker Carlos Ramirez who popped out his knee while
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