Latest Drugs Headlines
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Healthcare Execs Facing ‘Responsible Corporate Officer’ Strict Liability
Dec 6 2011 // After decades in relative obscurity, a U.S. legal doctrine that holds corporate officers liable for company wrongdoing is finding its way back into some high-profile healthcare prosecutions. The “responsible...
Florida Looks to Manage State’s Workers’ Compensation Costs
Nov 29 2011 // Florida officials are looking for ways to reduce the state government’s workers’ compensation costs and considering changing some mandates that grant first responders automatic benefits and reducing...
Doctors Continue to Work While Under Investigation in Louisiana
Nov 22 2011 // Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud...
NCCI Study Examines Medical Services in Workers’ Comp Claims
Nov 21 2011 // A new report on medical services casts light on how different combinations of medical services contribute to workers’ compensation claim costs over time. Understanding what combinations of medical services are used...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rates to Rise; Doctor-Dispensed Drug Costs Eyed
Nov 7 2011 // Employers in Florida will be paying more for workers’ compensation next year following the state insurance chief’s approval of an 8.9 percent statewide average rate hike. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin...
NCCI Study Examines Medical Services in Workers’ Comp Claims
Nov 4 2011 // A new report on medical services casts light on how different combinations of medical services contribute to workers’ compensation claim costs over time. Understanding what combinations of medical services are used...
Florida Looks to Rein In Cost of Repackaged Drugs
Nov 3 2011 // In an effort to lower workers’ compensation costs, Florida lawmakers are proposing to limit the amount physicians can charge for providing patients with prescription drugs. State Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) and Rep....
Corporations Win Key Product Liability Trials; More Victories to Come?
Nov 1 2011 // A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them. AstraZeneca Plc, Merck & Co. and...
Alabama Regulators Call for Hearing on Proposed Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Oct 27 2011 // Alabama regulators are preparing to hold a public hearing on a proposed statewide average 9.3 percent decrease in the state’s workers’ compensation rates. The National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Florida Approves 8.9% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Oct 25 2011 // Employers in Florida will be paying more for workers’ compensation coverage next year following the state insurance chief’s approval of an 8.9 percent statewide average rate hike. Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Man Shot During Minnesota Drug Bust Gets $350K from County Insurance
Oct 14 2011 // Minnesota’s Stearns County’s insurance trust has paid $350,000 to a man who was shot in the back by a sheriff’s lieutenant during a drug bust. John Albert Sorensen had sued the county and now-retired Lt....
Florida Weighs Workers’ Comp Hike, Cost of Doctor-Dispensed Drugs
Oct 13 2011 // Florida employers could have to pay more in workers’ compensation premiums if regulators go along with a proposed statewide average 8.9 percent rate hike. The rate change may also trigger legislative action to clamp...
Boeing Arrest Points to Workplace Drug Problem
Oct 4 2011 // The arrest of more than three dozen people on drug charges at a Boeing military aircraft plant highlights the growing problem of prescription drug abuse by U.S. workers, according to experts. Federal authorities last...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Overhaul Now in Effect
Aug 26 2011 // Legislation overhauling the Oklahoma workers’ compensation laws becomes effective today, Aug. 26, 2011. The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court noted that while the effective date for Senate Bill 878 is Aug....
Insurer Sued for Refusal to Hire North Carolina Man in Drug Program
Aug 23 2011 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a national insurance company, contending the firm violated federal law by refusing to hire a North Carolina man after he disclosed he was participating in a...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Fines Health Insurer
Aug 16 2011 // Wshington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined Regence BlueShield (Regence) $100,000 for denying contraceptive coverage to 984 women. Kreidler learned about the violation from a consumer who contacted his...
Diabetes Drug Maker Facing Hundreds of Lawsuits
Aug 9 2011 // The maker of the world’s best-selling diabetes drug is facing hundreds of lawsuits and likely a big sales drop as suspicion grows that taking the pill for more than a year raises the risk of bladder cancer. In June,...
Study: Workers’ Comp Drug Costs Higher in Texas, Louisiana
Jul 29 2011 // A new study indicates that Louisiana had the highest workers’ compensation prescription costs among the 17 states studied and that Texas also was among the states with the highest cost of prescription drugs per...
Wash. Workers’ Comp Prescription Drug Costs Among the Lowest
Jul 13 2011 // The high cost for prescription drugs for injured workers in some states is a major issue for policymakers, but not in Washington state, where costs were among the lowest compared to 17 other states, according to a new...
Tennessee Workers’ Comp Law on Drug Testing Takes Effect
Jul 5 2011 // A new workers’ compensation law on drug testing became effective, July 1, in Tennessee. Supported by the state’s business community, the new law changes the standard of proof workers must meet to prove that a...
