Virginia employers and work comp carriers would have one year to seek recovery of payments to health care providers regardless of the date payment was made, under legislation moving through…
Workers’ compensation would not be the exclusive remedy for Wisconsin workers claiming injuries from abusive work environments, under legislation introduced in the state Senate last week.
Sen. Tim Carpenter
Sen. Tim…
Essential government workers in Maryland who are diagnosed with long COVID would be presumed to have a compensable occupational disease, under a bill introduced in the state Senate.
SB 431, by…
Insurance companies continue to be the subject of most Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation enforcement activities, according to an update provided during recent health care provider and carrier quarterly meetings.
Dan LaBruyere
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A Texas phlebotomist who claimed she could not work was sentenced to 18 months of deferred adjudication after she was convicted of double dipping.
Ruth Castilleja, of Baytown, will also pay…
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that an injured nurse was not entitled to additional benefits or a change in her date of maximum medical improvement.
Case: Tygrett v. Norton Healthcare,…