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Health Care Reform To Have Major Impact on Workers’ Compensation
Dec 16 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurers and actuaries need to prepare for upcoming changes arising from proposed healthcare reform and the shifting medical landscape, attendees of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) annual...
Supreme Court Hears Vioxx Arguments on Investor Lawsuits
Dec 2 2009 // Lawyers for Merck & Co. told the Supreme Court this week that investors waited too late and didn’t do all of the necessary investigations to sue the drug maker over whether it properly warned about the risks of...
Winners, Losers in Senate Health Bill
Nov 23 2009 // Democrats in the Senate cleared the first procedural hurdle for sweeping healthcare reform Saturday by voting to open debate on the historic legislation. The Senate debate due to start on Nov. 30 is expected to last for at...
8th Circuit Affirms Arkansas Court Ruling Against Drug Companies
Nov 15 2009 // The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld Arkansas district court decisions in a products liability case against pharmaceutical companies that are the makers of hormone therapy drugs that, combined, have...
Utah Official Pleads to Health Insurance Fraud
Nov 11 2009 // The former commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety on Monday entered a conditional guilty plea to two third-degree felony charges of falsely obtaining a prescription and to a misdemeanor count of filing a...
Provisions of House Healthcare Bill
Nov 9 2009 // Here are the main provisions of the healthcare overhaul passed by the House of Representatives: INSURANCE MARKET CHANGES * Creates an insurance market exchange where individuals and small businesses would purchase...
8th Circuit Affirms Arkansas Court Ruling in Products Liability Case
Nov 5 2009 // The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld Arkansas district court decisions in a products liability case against pharmaceutical companies that are the makers of hormone therapy drugs that, combined, have...
Michigan Driver Sues, Claims UPS Fired Her For Refusing Drug Delivery
Nov 4 2009 // A former United Parcel Services driver in Michigan who claims he was fired for refusing to deliver a package containing marijuana has filed a lawsuit against the delivery company. Forty-one-year-old Steven Mojica of...
Investigation: Ohio Work Comp Fund Lost $20M in Pharmacy Program
Oct 30 2009 // The state watchdog says the Ohio insurance fund for injured workers is out $20 million because of problems with its prescription drug program. Inspector General Tom Charles says the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation...
California Commissioner Warns Seniors About Agents
Oct 23 2009 // California’s Insurance Commissioner is worried that crooked health insurance agents may target seniors during open enrollment for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Program. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner...
Alabama Supreme Court Throws Out $274M in Verdicts Against Drug Makers
Oct 19 2009 // The Alabama Supreme Court last Friday threw out jury decisions awarding the state more than $274 million from three pharmaceutical companies, ruling they did not defraud the state in pricing Medicaid prescription...
California Workers’ Compensation Drug Costs Up, Despite Reforms
Sep 21 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per claim are on the rise...
Text: Sen. Baucus Introduces to Senate Financial Committee Health Bill
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future...
Text: Senate Finance Committee’s America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009
Sep 16 2009 // Chairman’s Mark America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 TITLE I—HEALTH CARE...
Study Shows California Workers Compensation Drug Costs Up
Sep 10 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms and a pharmacy fee schedule in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per...
Arkansas Panel Rules Jailers Can Be Sued as Individuals
Aug 24 2009 // A federal appeals panel on Aug. 20 upheld a ruling that jailers in Garland County, Ark., can be sued personally for allegedly ignoring a suspected intoxicated driver who didn’t move for hours in his cell and suffered...
Unsafe Truck, Bus Operators Told to Shut Down Are Still on Roads
Aug 3 2009 // Hundreds of tractor-trailer and bus companies ordered to shut down because of federal safety violations ranging from suspended licenses to possible drug use have stayed on the road by using different names, investigators...
Mini Reasons to Stay Sober
Jul 20 2009 // The survey showed a decline in the percentage of legally intoxicated drivers, but for the first time used screening techniques that detected other substances as well. My husband and I recently bought ourselves a new car...
Fewer Drunk Drivers on U.S. Roads; Concern Rises Over Drugged Drivers
Jul 13 2009 // A new roadside survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirms a continuing decline in the percentage of legally intoxicated drivers. In 1973, 7.5 percent of drivers had a blood alcohol concentration...
Louisiana Supreme Court: Payment by Insurer Establishes Liability
Jul 6 2009 // The Louisiana Supreme Court recently reversed the decision of trial and appeals courts, which had ruled in favor of an insurer in a case involving an uninsured/underinsured motorist. In Marco Demma, III v. Automobile Club...
