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Experience Modification Rate Can Lead to Higher WC Premiums, Lost Work Opportunities.
State Counties With Highest Temp Workers: SC, IL, MI, NJ, TN.
RIMS Warns Proposes OSHA Rule Would Adversely Affect Risk Management Practices.
AK: HB 316 Would Clamp Down on Medical Fee Schedule Rates.
AZ: Industrial Commission to Hold 2014 Fee Schedule Hearing on 4-17-2014.
AZ: HB 2094 Sets Time Limit on Employee’s Third Party Action.
AZ: HB 2394 Keeps 10% Deviation Rate for Calculating Taxes Paid by Self-Insured Employers.
CA: AB 1897 Proponents Seek to Protect Small Business Which Use Temp Agencies.
CA: AB 1746 Would Give Priority to WC Claims Involving Illegally Uninsured Employers.
CA: Dem. Lawmaker Questions LAX Worker Safety.
CA: AB 1576 Would Require STD Testing Every 14 Days for Porn Stars.
CA: DWC Issues Second 15-Day Notice re MPN Proposed Rule Changes.
CA: WCIRB Actuarial Committee to Meet March 19.
CA: WCIRB Posts Summary of SB 863 Medical Cost Analysis.
CO: Employers Ramp Up Drug Testing Due to Legalization of Recreational Marijuana.
CT: Two Bills for Mental Trauma Being Considered by Legislature.
CT: Governor Appoints Thomas J. Mullins to Workers’ Compensation Commission.
HI: SB 2064 Would Give Injured Employees 17 Visits of Psychological/Psychiatric Services.
KS: Court of Appeals to Hear Oral Arguments in Two Workers’ Comp Cases.
LA: LWCC Board of Directors Declare $69.1M Dividend.
MD: Local Governments Crack Down on Workers Comp Fraud.
MA: High Court Dismisses Lawsuit in Caseworker Death.
MN: High Court Says PTSD Is No “Brain Injury”.
NV: NCCI Explains 3.2 Percent Increase in Loss Cost Filing.
NH: HB 439 Increase in WC Benefits Opposed as Undoing Cost Control Reforms.
NM: Governor Signs SB 9 Business Portal to Access Workers Comp Information.
NM: Funds Not Earmarked When Subsequent Injury Fund Disbanded in 1996.
NY: Cornell Administrators to Form Task Force on Workers’ Comp for Grad Students.
NC: Industrial Commission Posts 2014 Maximum Weekly Comp Rate.
OH: Dem. Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Provide Death Benefits for Part Time Officers’ Families.
OK: High Court Upholds Law to Convert CompSource Into Mutual Insurance Company.
OK: Attorney General Comments on CompSource’s Legal Victory.
OR: Governor Signs SB 1558 re Insolvent Self-Insured Employer Groups.
PA: SB 1195 Would Provide $4M to Address Uninsured Employer Obligations.
TX: Employers Offering FMLA Instead of Workers’ Comp Face Risks.
TX: DWC Posts Revised Medical Quality Review Process Document.
TX: DWC Adopts Revised Utilization Review Rules Effective 3-30-2014.
WA: Legislature Adjourns Without Reforming Workers’ Comp.
WV: Attorney General Urges DEA to Enact Stronger Restrictions on Hydrocodone Drugs.
WI: Lobbyist Warns of Need for Workers Comp Reforms.
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