Rapid Expansion Ahead for SmartPay Pay-As-You-Go Comp

Current News :
• 04/20/21
• WorkCompAcademy.com

Sacramento, CA - What happens when the enhancement is in more demand than the original product? That was the quandary faced a few years ago by entrepreneurs operating an insurance agency. And, like all ...
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NY: Assembly Passes Hero Act, Protecting Workers from Infectious Diseases in the Workplace

Current News :
• 04/20/21
• WorkersCompensation.com

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - Speaker Carl Heastie, Labor Committee Chair Latoya Joyner and Assemblymember Karines Reyes today announced that the Assembly has passed the Hero Act, which will ...
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Oregon OSHA Fines Lowe’s Stores More Than $35,000 for COVID-19 Violations

Current News :
• 04/20/21
• WorkersCompensation.com

Salem, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) - Oregon OSHA has fined Lowe’s Home Improvement stores in Redmond and Albany more than $35,000 for violating standards designed to protect workers from the ...
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OSHA Cites North American Lighting After Maintenance Technician Suffers Facial Burns in Explosion

Current News :
• 04/20/21
• WorkersCompensation.com

Paris, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) - On Nov. 14, 2020, a master maintenance technician for a central Illinois lighting manufacturer suffered severe facial burns when pressurized material in a plastic ...
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We're Really Back!

Workers Comp Blogwire :
• 04/20/21
• Judge David Langham

On October 6, 2020, I attended my first in-person workers' compensation seminar in nine months. At the time, I blogged "we're back" and then admitted that was an overstatement but concluded we were ...
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CMS releases updated Section 111 Model Language document

Workers Comp Blogwire :
• 04/20/21
• Mark Poplizio and Jeremy Farquhar

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released an updated Section 111 Model Language document dated March 10, 2021 (PDF version) for RREs to use as part of their efforts to obtain ...
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UK's medicines regulator resumes onsite inspections

Workers Comp Blogwire :
• 04/20/21
• Mark Buckingham

The global pandemic saw the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) suspend its inspection program in January 2021. This decision was taken in line with government restrictions ...
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Two years in review: Notre-Dame de Paris fire

Workers Comp Blogwire :
• 04/20/21
• Michael Honore

There are anniversaries that we do not always wish to celebrate. This is the case of the Notre-Dame de Paris fire. However, we cannot forget the exceptional mobilization of emergency services, nor the ...
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COVID Creates Havoc with Businesses and Insurance Companies

Featured News :
• 04/20/21
• Chriss Swaney

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A cavalcade of restaurants, retail and entertainment venues are squaring off with insurance companies to approve claims for businesses that face substantial losses ...
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