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Bill Subjecting Air Ambulance Providers to State Insurance Code Heads to Governor
04/14/2017
authority and file paperwork with the state auditor's office.
The bill comes as many states are grappling with how to regulate air ambulance providers who hold that the federal Airline Deregulation Act precludes states' abilities to monitor them.
Some states have argued that the McCarran-Ferguson
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Lawmakers Ironing Out Compromise Comp Reforms as Clock Ticks
05/04/2017
. Competition works.
Lawmakers were grappling with several workers compensation bills Wednesday to resolve them before the regular session ends on Friday. The session will be extended to one day Monday to solve budgetary legislation only House Speaker Richard Corcoran R-Land O Lakes said from the
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Advisory Council Dulls Partisan Influences
05/16/2006
through the legislative shoals.
Bill proposals are suggested by many different sources including council members employers
injured workers and legislators. One idea the council is currently grappling with came from the logging industry which pays high premiums because of its hazardous nature
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Legislature Considering Repeal of Remarriage Penalty
05/22/2013
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief
New York claimants' attorneys and a union are pushing lawmakers to extend lifetime benefits to the spouses of all workers who die from work-related accidents and illnesses by repealing a century-old law requiring lump-sum payments when those spouses
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Lawmakers Delay Medical Fee Fight Until 2014
02/25/2013
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief
The Virginia General Assembly was scheduled to end its 2013 session last Saturday with the key workers' compensation issue a year-long fight over medical costs unresolved and assigned to a study panel grappling with a proposal to build the state's first
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Education Mandates a Sticky Subject in Model Opioid Legislation
06/28/2012
exceeded in their cases.
Others suggested mandated education for any doctor who prescribes pain medications to injured workers.
Krohm said the suggestions posed numerous potential problems and could create both questions and controversy.
He wondered how state lawmakers might struggle to stomach such
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Facing Higher Premiums, Volunteer Firefighters Now Talking Statewide Strike
11/14/2018
After years of spiraling workers compensation premiums and little action from lawmakers the outlook has become so dire that West Virginia volunteer firefighters are now considering going on strike to jolt officials into action.
Can you imagine if the folks providing fire and rescue to 90 of
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L.A. Supervisor Warns Against Reform Slip-up
03/23/2006
Ahead of Wednesday's hearing in Sacramento about curtailed disability awards under the new rating schedule Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe pleaded with lawmakers to stand pat and let the reforms continue to reduce employee costs for local governments and private employers alike.
In his
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Subsequent Injury Fund Study Outcome Appears Open
12/03/2007
workers.
Since 1992 at least 16 states have scrapped their second injury funds the American Insurance Association AIA reported earlier this year.
Regulators in many of those states are grappling with unfunded liabilities which AIA reported amount to billions of dollars in
Florida
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Lawmakers Grappling with Mental-Mental, Longshore Bills
02/15/2013
conditions and may open the flood gates to mental-mental claims.
Injured Workers Advocates is lobbying to pass the legislation. Maxwell said Thursday the high court gave South Carolina lawmakers a clear signal that the law governing mental-mental traumas is in need of reform.
He said the bill should be
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