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• How New York Workers Comp and Special Exemptions Affect New Health Care Legislation

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Persons reading  the New York Workers’ Compensation Law from start to finish are struck by the long, inexplicable lists of various employments. Why do these have to be listed? The answer has great relevancy to proposed national health care. When the comp law  was passed in 1914 only certain hazardous ...
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• Independent Medical Exam Uncovers Workers Compensation Fraud

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  A Florida man  pled guilty in Suffolk Superior Court to charges he schemed to collect falsely workers’ compensation benefits and lied under oath. The defendant, formerly from Massachusetts, pled guilty to two charges of charges of workers’ compensation and perjury. The defendant collected a total of $3,960 in ...
  6 days ago

• Court Backs Distribution of 4.5 Million Settlement Against Allstate

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  The U.S. Equal  Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that Judge E. Richard Webber of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has granted final approval for distribution of a $4,500,000 monetary award to 90 claimants identified during the litigation as part of an EEOC litigation ...
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• CANADA Ontario Nurses’ Association Lobbies for Changes to Workplace Violence Bill

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  The Ontario Nurses’  Association (ONA) has highlighted “two seemingly small but fundamental flaws” that they say threatens the value of the entire workplace violence legislation created recently in Ontario as the bill passed a second reading in the province’s legislature.  According  to The ...
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• Subrogation in New York: Employer Rights to Sue Doctors and Lawyers

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Employers who have  experienced a long string of seemingly exaggerated claims with anomalously long and expensive periods of disability learn, the hard way, to recognize patterns. First, the names of the doctors are repetitive. Second, the same attorneys always seem to have the claims.   The associations ...
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• Hospital Settles Disabillity Discrimination Lawsuit

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  For not obeying  the laws prohibiting disability discrimination this employer ended up with these sanctions: 1.  $142,500 in back pay and compensatory damages.  2.  Payment to employee’s attorney. 3.  A 26-month consent decree prohibiting further discrimination and retaliatory behavior. 4.  Maintenance and ...
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• Do You Know The ONE Thing An Employer Can Do to Drive Their Injured Employees Straight to An Attorney

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  The easiest way  to chase your injured employee to an attorney is to ignore the employee once an injury occurs.  Of course the attorney who is interested in maximizing his income, builds-up the employee’s claim by whatever methods are available in the jurisdiction of the injury.  The best way to prevent ...
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• Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Workers Comp Fraud, Elder Abuse and Grand Theft

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Sometimes, it’s not ONLY a workers’ comp claim…it’s other types of exposure as well. A California woman was arrested last week on suspicion of committing workers’ compensation insurance fraud, financial elder abuse and grand theft according to California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.  She ...
  2 weeks ago

• No one Should Be Denied Employement Based on Genetic Discrimination

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Title II Genetics Information Nondiscrimination Act Prohibits Discrimination by Health Insurers, Employers U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has assumed responsibility for enforcing Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), the first legislative expansion of its ...
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• Recovery Under Uninsured Motorist Coverage Against Workers’ Compensation Benefits Owed to Injured Worker

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  How Would You Decide:  Mississippi Insurance Guaranty Association Is Not Entitled To Credit a Recovery Under Employer’s Uninsured Motorist Coverage Against Workers’ Compensation Benefits Owed to Injured Worker. Here’s What Happened: Blakeney,  an employee of a local housing authority, sustained ...
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• Contacting Claimants Represented by Counsel in New York

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Can a carrier  or an employer contact a claimant who is represented by an attorney without first contacting the attorney? The Workers’ Comp Law (WCL) makes no mention of any such restrictions. In any event, it is the rule that an ATTORNEY representing a party may not contact the other party if he/she is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yukon Alaska Workers Comp Board Unveils New Approach in Investigating Incidents

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  In a bid  to prevent serious workplace incidents, Workplace Safety officials Yukon, Alaska implemented a new approach of releasing preliminary investigation reports to the public. Last month,  the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board released two preliminary reports examining the ...
  2 weeks ago

• California Councilwoman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud Riding Motorcycle While Claiming to Be Too Injured to Work

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Fraud Blotter A survey of what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report  in terms of workers’ comp fraud, listing recent arrests, charges, and convictions. Criminal complaints and indictments are accusations only. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Councilwoman ...
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• Hospital Employees Fired for Alleged Patient Privacy Violations

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Sixteen employees  were fired for reportedly violating patient privacy laws a Harris County (Texas) Hospital District hospital spokeswoman confirmed. Most of the fired employees included  managers, nurses, clerks who worked at Ben Taub General Hospital. A county employee,   wishing to remain anonymous, told ...
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• CANADA Termination of Disabled Union Workers and Accommodation Law In Canada

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Attendance Management and the Law - Case Study II The Supreme Court   of Canada upheld grievance arbitration decisions in two court cases endorsing the right of management to terminate union employees who cannot fulfill their basic employment contract of work for compensation.  Essentially the   Court ...
  3 weeks ago

• CANADA Supreme Court Says Management Has Right to Terminate Employees Unable To Perform Essential Duties

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Attendance Management and the Law - Case Study One The Supreme Court   of Canada upheld grievance arbitration decisions in two court cases endorsing the right of management to terminate union employees who cannot fulfill their basic employment contract of work for compensation.  Essentially the   Court ...
  3 weeks ago

• CANADA Bullet Proofing Health Care Workers, Literally

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Health care workers  are facing increased abuse in the hospital setting, making a recent move by the IWK Health Centre to buy bulletproof vests very welcome, says the head of the Nova Scotia Nurses Union.  “I think safety in our hospitals is becoming more and more of an issue, for sure,” union president Janet ...
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• Workers Compensation Insurance Must Be Sold by LICENSED Agents and Brokers

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  A survey of what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report   in terms of workers’ comp fraud, listing recent arrests, charges, and convictions. Criminal complaints and indictments are accusations only. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Workers’ Comp ...
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• Workers Protections Expanded Under New York Law

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  As often stated   our articles are usually about workers’ compensation cost containment for employers.  So, why do we talk about laws seeming to favor or be directed towards employees? It’s simple.  In accounting there are direct expenses: costs of doing business known about and planned for.  Then ...
  3 weeks ago

• North Dakota to Examine Whether Their Benefits For Injuries with Pre-Existing Conditions Are Adequate

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Auditors in  North Dakota will conduct a fresh review of denied workers’ compensation claims and study the laws defining eligibility for certain benefits. According to  inforum.com , Workforce Safety and Insurance and the state workers’ comp agency, will audit its operations in 2008 and 2009.  An ...
  4 weeks ago

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