by Kelia Scott | Feb 25, 2020 | Workers' Comp News
A stenographer in New York state has allegedly been adding zeros to billing invoices to insurance carrier clients over the past few years. She was recently arrested for extensive overbilling. Laura Hayes worked as a court stenographer for Oswego County. New York State...
by Kelia Scott | Feb 24, 2020 | Workers' Comp News
In a case out of the Iowa Court of Appeals, it was determined that a worker could still be eligible for alternate care even if they had refused an IME to determine whether the requested treatment was related to a compensable injury. Justin Botkin worked for Harris...
by Kelia Scott | Feb 24, 2020 | Workers' Comp News
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined two companies for safety violations that led to the deaths of two workers at a Portland, OR area music festival. OSHA launched an investigation and issued $31,000 in fines to Pickathon LLC and...
by Kelia Scott | Feb 19, 2020 | Workers' Comp News
An appellate court affirmed that an appliance repair technician who was injured in a vehicle accident was eligible for workers’ comp benefits, even though they acknowledged there were discrepancies between his story and the other driver’s account of the accident. Dale...
by Kelia Scott | Feb 19, 2020 | Workers' Comp News
The National Safety Council (NSC) has observed that over the past decade the number of workplace injuries has declined, but the number of fatalities has stayed consistent, even going up in some years. To address this, they have created the “Work to Zero” initiative to...
