SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 BY WORKCOMPWIRE By Linda Lane, President of Harbor Health Systems On the whole, the workers’ compensation industry remains focused on reducing costs at the unit level. For example, prominent tactics still include negotiating a discount on fee... SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 BY WORKCOMPWIRE Boca Raton, FL – There are claims, and then there are mega claims. These extraordinary occurrences exceed $10M and can have a significant impact on the workers compensation industry. What’s surprising is that the number of mega... SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 BY WORKCOMPWIRE Oakland, CA – The WCIRB recently released its quarterly update on California statewide insurer experience valued as of March 31, 2018. Highlights of the report include: California written premium for the first calendar quarter of 2018... SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 BY WORKCOMPWIRE Tallahassee, FL – Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis recently announced the arrest of Vanessa Arreguin, owner of V&G Concrete, Inc. for workers’ compensation fraud. Over the course of two years she conducted more... Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Cassie Brown has turned in the keys to a secure warehouse that the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has used since 1992 to store injured employee claims. The 24,000-square-foot building that housed rows and rows of floor... SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 BY WORKCOMPWIRE Brooklyn, NY – A complaint was recently unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Joseph Penatello, a former motor vehicle operator for the United States Postal Service (USPS), with making false statements to obtain federal... 
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