The California Division of Workers’ Compensation on Wednesday announced additional changes to the hospital outpatient department and ambulatory surgical centers section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule to align with…
The Workers Compensation Research Institute published a guide describing the medical cost containment strategies used in all 50 states and three federal workers’ compensation programs.
The publication, “Workers’ Compensation Medical Cost…
Injured workers and their beneficiaries in California would be able to electronically sign settlement agreements, under a bill introduced this month.
Assembly Bill 2337, by Assemblymember Diane Dixon, R-Newport Beach, would…
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said a woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $170,000 in restitution for conning two employers in two…
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of permanent partial disability benefits to a former miner on his occupational pneumoconiosis claim.
Case: Wright v. West Virginia Office of Insurance Commissioner,…
A federal appellate court ruled that neither qualified immunity nor the exclusive remedy provision of Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Law barred a nurse’s civil rights claims of being strip-searched as she reported…