ORLANDO, Florida — Florida's new cancer presumption law for firefighters has no enforcement mechanism and may take years of litigation to iron out confusion about
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ORLANDO, Florida — Dramatic societal factors outside the control of workers’ compensation stakeholders will alter the grand bargain, posing challenges to the 110-year old truce
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Opioid use, comorbidities and attorney involvement are often looked at as warning signs that a workers’ comp claim is on a costly trajectory.
But another
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ORLANDO, Florida — As many as 700,000 injured workers are misdiagnosed every year, leading to prolonged claims, unnecessary surgery or drugs, and more time away
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Although the federal government has rolled back a requirement for employers to electronically submit more detailed information regarding workplace injuries, debate over such a proposal
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Divorce. A death in the family. Insomnia.
If any of those terms show up in The Hartford's artificial intelligence scan of injured workers' medical records
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Paying medical providers more to treat injured workers doesn’t substantially improve worker outcomes, but it does seem to increase the amount of care provided, according
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A woman denied benefits after tripping over her dog and a challenge to the constitutionality of Florida's system that allows expert medical advisers to deny
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California’s advisory pure premium rate is poised to fall again in 2020 with the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau recommending a 5.7% cut.
The WCIRB’s
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Thanks to a reporting error that wreaked havoc on workers' compensation premiums over the past year, the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau will have regulators looking
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