by Kelia Scott | Oct 3, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
A New York physician who worked for years as an orthopedic surgeon was found to be fraudulently inflating charges and billing for surgeries that he did not perform – billing for 20 surgeries in a day or recording that he was seeing 60 to 90 patients a day. While he...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 3, 2018 | Industry Insights, Workers' Comp News
Today we have a Guest Post from Tom Reddon, a forklift specialist and blog manager for the National Forklift Exchange. Today Tom shares some great tips on predicting and preventing forklift accidents. Thanks Tom! How To Predict Forklift Accidents: The...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 1, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
Coventry has released part 4 of their 2017 Drug Trends series, this one is titled “Topicals, Specialty Medications & Regulatory Development”. The analysis uses data from calendar year transactions billed through Coventry’s Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM)...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 26, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Review Board who determined that a widow was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for her husband, who died of lung cancer in 2012 after working at Electric Boat for years. Donald...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 20, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited five separate contractors in connection with the fatal bridge collapse that occurred on the Florida International University campus in Miami this past March. Six...
