Global inactivity has rapidly increased as more people spend less time performing physical activity. The decline of physical activity affects the current obesity epidemic and could increase the risk of other diseases. The decrease in physical activity was reported across the global and not just in developed countries. New research is showing the decline of …
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Jun 18
Help Wanted: Workers’ Compensation rights
DEAR CARRIE: My 84-year-old mother-in-law works for a country club in the catering and restaurant division. She has worked there for 20 years and has used just four sick days. She works all holidays and even double shifts when called upon. She recently tripped at work and missed three days because she hurt her knee. …
Jun 14
Police not affected by workers compensation cuts
The Whole Dirty Truth About Reverse Mortgages. Be Informed. NSW police will be exempt from radical cuts to workers compensation benefits and maintain their existing entitlements. Police Minister Mike Gallacher last night said the state government will maintain the current workers’ compensation and death and disability scheme for police officers. “This commitment includes preserving the …
Jun 14
Don’t make New York’s already expensive Workers’ Comp system more expensive
ALBANY, NY (06/14/2012)(readMedia)– Two bills before the State Legislature could rollback cost savings created in the 2007 Workers’ Compensation reforms. S.3749-C (Robach)/A.5183 (Simotas) would allow an injured employee to utilize any pharmacy that matched the state’s “published prices,” regardless of whether such pharmacy was in an employer’s network and offered “volume discounts” often significantly below …
Jun 04
Work-Zone Safety, Workers’ Comp Programs Help Governments Stay Within Budget
The City of Columbia, Mo.’s money-saving efforts include increasingly concentrated attempts to keep Workers’ Compensation costs down, says Sarah Perry, the city’s risk manager for more than 15 years and a member of NU’s Risk Managers Advisory Board. Measures undertaken to that end include increased focus on work-zone safety measures for any public employee working …
Jun 04
New York: Medical fee schedules are in effect
The Workers’ Compensation Board announced that it intends to adopt new fee schedules for physicians, chiropractors, podiatrists, psychologists, and other medical professionals who treat injured workers. The new fee schedules went into effect on June 1 and will incorporate the latest current procedural terminology codes from the American Medical Association. The fee schedules also incorporate …
Jun 04
Painkillers hike workers’ compensation cost, insurers say
Injured who take opioids slower to return to work NEW YORK – Workplace insurers are accustomed to making billions of dollars in payments each year, with the biggest sums going to employees hurt in major accidents, such as those mangled by machines or crushed in building collapses. Now they are dealing with another big and …
Apr 02
NFL and Falcons Sue Former Players Over Workers’ Comp
The National Football League and the Atlanta Falcons are suing nine former Falcons players to force them to litigate workers’ compensation cases in Georgia rather than in California, where dozens of current and former NFL players have sought compensation for injuries sustained from playing football. The eight-page suit, filed by King & Spalding attorneys Darrick …
Apr 02
Workers’ Compensation Medical Prices Were Higher and Grew More Rapidly in States without Medical Fee Schedules, Says New WCRI Study
The prices paid for medical professional services for injured workers were higher and rising faster in states without fee schedules compared with states that have them in place, according to a new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), Medical Price Index for Workers’ Compensation, Fourth Edition (MPI-WC). Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) March 29, 2012 …
Apr 02
NY factory owner where worker died is arrested
NEW YORK — The owner of a Brooklyn tortilla factory where a worker died after falling into a waist-high dough mixing machine has been arrested. Erasmo Ponce was charged with underpaying employees, falsifying business records, violating workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance laws. Authorities said Wednesday Ponce surrendered Tuesday and was released on bail. According to …