Alliance, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Physicians providing workers' compensation related services under the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation's imprimatur must apply to perform evaluations. The bureau draws from a pool of contracted physicians providing one or […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A worker's injury on a construction job set off a chain reaction leading to a contractor's liability for the claim. In Singh v. Atlas Construction Corp., No. CV-22-2011 (N.Y. App. […]

Bangor, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Maine, "utilization review" means the initial prospective, concurrent or retrospective evaluation by an insurance carrier, self-insurer, or group self-insurer of the appropriateness in terms of both the level and the […]

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you're thinking about torts and on-the-job injuries, you're probably also thinking about exclusive remedy rules in most states. What an exclusive remedy rule does is prevent someone from suing for […]

Las Vegas, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Nevada, the following posters and forms or data must be used by an insurer, employer, injured employee, provider of health care, organization for managed care or third-party administrator in […]

Reno, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Nevada, the meaning of "annual expenditures for claims" comes from a state statute, and is as follows: 1. For assessments for fiscal years before fiscal year 1999-2000, the total amount […]

Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In California, when there's a need to change qualified medical examiners, there are rules and a form that must be followed. Basics Once an Agreed Medical Evaluator, an Agreed Panel QME, […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It is against the law in New York for an employer to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against an employee because the employee has claimed or attempted to […]