by Kelia Scott | Oct 28, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) implemented a closed formulary in 2011 to manage prescription drugs for injured workers. The formulary excludes investigational, experimental and non-recommended or N-drugs, and requires...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 24, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
An employer had paid for home health care by an agency for an injured worker, which doesn’t necessarily mean that care provided by an employee’s spouse was compensable too, determined a Virginia appellate court. In early 2012 Ross had sustained severe injuries,...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 23, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Aruvil International Inc. again after an inspection turned up multiple workplace violations, including four willful safety citations, at their Pennsauken, NJ facility....
by Kelia Scott | Oct 23, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
A New York appellate court decided that the Workers’ Compensation Law Judge erred when they determined a worker’s average weekly wage. The WCLJ had taken a worker’s wages, having worked six days a week for 13 weeks, and divided the total by 13 which was not the...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 22, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
A Florida appellate court found that a physician acting as an employer’s independent medical examiner did not need to be a board-certified pulmonologist to give an opinion that an employee’s history of cigarette smoking was the major cause of his respiratory...
