Channeling Apple’s iconic marketing slogan in a headline (some would argue a more grammatically correct version) necessarily means turning to the company’s legendary leader Steve Jobs for one of his memorable quotes on innovation: “To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of discipline.”
The Travelers Companies Inc. has spent the past two years attempting to curb opioid abuse by gauging the likelihood that an injured worker would become hooked — and it helped reduce opioid use in claims by 30% among 500,000 claimants in the United States, the company reported Wednesday.
NBC2 has obtained video showing the moment a lightning strike at Southwest Florida International Airport sent a ground worker to the hospital. The bolt hit a Sun Country plane and traveled through 21-year-old Austin Dunn’s body on Saturday July 22nd.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office recently announced that a Redondo Beach woman accused of participating in a $150 million workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme recently pleaded guilty.
A bill presented to lawmakers in Texas on Wednesday aims to tackle the murky issue of causation in workers compensation.House Bill 233, sponsored by Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, calls for medical causation narrative reports to be paid for by insurers when they dispute a correlation between one condition and that which is directly related to the workplace injury.
States that enacted reforms to rein in the high cost of drugs dispensed by physicians to injured workers are facing an uphill battle as some doctors are finding ways around the regulations, meaning these costs remain stagnant or are rising in some states, experts say.
As much as a fifth of medical diagnoses in workers’ compensation claims involve errors that cost workers’ compensation systems billions, a 10-year study from a medical consulting service found.
Insurance company Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company announced it will stop providing workers’ compensation insurance to seven of the eight businesses waiting for licenses to begin selling their product in dispensaries.
A state employee who said he got hurt at work and claimed disability from the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, but was actually injured riding a motorcycle at a Bozeman racetrack, has admitted to a felony and will pay a $3,000 fine. Boone Block, 34, of Clyde Park, pleaded guilty June 14 to false claim to a public agency.
According to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), Michigan boasted the country’s largest decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed for workers’ compensation claims between 2009 and 2015. In total, the amount fell by 37 percent, and the WCRI claims it is due to amendments of Workers’ Compensation Health Care Services rules and fee schedule.
Authorities say a blast believed to have been a gas explosion leveled a Pennsylvania home, killing one utility worker and injuring at least one other employee.
One construction worker has died and another was hospitalized after being struck by lightning on Tuesday. According to fire rescue, the men were laying rebar for the new Pines City Center at 103rd Avenue and Pines Blvd. when they were hit at around 1:30 p.m.
Two CSX rail workers were struck and killed late Tuesday by an Amtrak passenger train in Washington, D.C., officials said. CSX issued a statement Wednesday that said the workers were on tracks near the intersection of Ninth Street and New York Avenue when they were struck just before midnight.
Thousands of injured workers statewide could receive more benefits after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a key part of the workers’ compensation law that has governed how the state assesses workplace injuries for the past 20 years.
Between 11% and 18% of injured workers in 15 states do not return to work within a year of their accident, a range that is in line with previous studies, according to reports released Tuesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
