Mexican Restaurant Pays $1 Million in Unpaid Wages to Employees

• 03/25/19
• Toni Sutton-Deangelico

San Jose, CA (WorkersCompensation.com)-The California Department of Industrial Relations has announced that a San Jose restaurant has finally reached a settlement with state regulators over complaints of 239 ...
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Enforcement of Medicare Payments

• 03/25/19
• Bruce Burk

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Medicare is always on the minds of those who work in the workers’ compensation field. If an injured worker is a Medicare recipient, that fact can have a large ...
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Is The OptumRx Suit Just The Beginning?

• 03/25/19
• F.J. Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Earlier this month, WorkersCompensation.com reported on OptumRx allegedly overcharging the Ohio Bureau Of Workers Compensation by $16 million. Dave Yost, Ohio ...
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Combustible Dust Tragedies Spark Renewed Efforts to Raise Awareness, Seek Solutions

• 03/25/19
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Thirteen people were killed and 163 injured in 2017 as a result of 169 combustible dust incidents. In the first half of last year, there had already been 115 such ...
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Pervasive Rate of Misdiagnoses a 'Silent Cost Driver in the Insurance Industry'

• 03/25/19
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Getting the right treatment for an injured worker at the right time improves outcomes and reduces costs. However, an incorrect diagnosis sends the claim in the wrong ...
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Increased Disputes Aside, California Formulary ‘On Track’ to Reduce Frictional Costs

• 03/22/19
• Nancy Grover

Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - There’s some good news and not as good news in the latest research out of California. The recently implemented workers’ compensation prescription drug ...
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Lyft, Uber Say Reclassification of Workers Would Impact Business

• 03/22/19
• Liz Carey

San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Both Lyft and Uber, the country’s two largest ride sharing companies, say changing the classification of their drivers would negatively impact their ...
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MEDVAL Acquired by Brown & Brown Subsidiary

• 03/22/19
• Nancy Grover

Daytona Beach, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Insurance brokerage firm Brown & Brown announced one of its subsidiaries, The Advocator Group has acquired MEDVAL, which provides Medicare Secondary ...
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Report: Federal Black Lung Fund Threatened

• 03/21/19
• Liz Carey

Coeburn, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A tax increase that was not renewed during the budget showdown in January 2019 may mean the depletion of a fund designed to help coal miners who have contracted ...
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