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California Workers’ Comp Bill Tabled
Sep 7 2005 // A bill aimed at closing a loophole in California’s workers’ compensation laws that allows doctors to profit from big markups on prescription drugs they sell to their patients appears has died in the current...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // NAMIC ENCOURAGES RATE MODERNIZATION IN HAWAII: The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has told a Hawaii legislative committee that passing rate modernization laws would benefit state commerce and insurance...
Second Vioxx Trial to Open in N.J. as Suits Against Merck Multiply
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case. Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
ARIZ. RULING MAY THREATEN WORKPLACE SAFETY:
Sep 5 2005 // The Arizona Supreme Court has invalidated what the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America believes was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments, according to PCI...
Second Vioxx Trial to Open in N.J. as Suits Against Merck Multiply
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case. Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
PCI Says Ariz. Court Ruling Threatens Workplace Safety
Aug 18 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court in David C. Grammatica v. Arizona Industrial Commission has invalidated what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to...
PCI Says Court Ruling Threatens Workplace Safety
Aug 11 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court has invalided what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments in...
Texas Jury Finds Humana HMO Liable in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jul 21 2005 // A local jury in San Antonio, Texas, on July 1 awarded $7.4 million in actual damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against the health maintenance organization Humana Health Plan of Texas Inc., a physician, and his physicians...
Wyoming’s First Lady Backs Repeal of Insurance Law
Jul 15 2005 // First lady Nancy Freudenthal says a law allowing insurance companies to withhold coverage for injuries resulting from drug or alcohol use should be repealed. Because of the law, she said, doctors and nurses are less likely...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...
Survey Says Insurance Cost Increases Slow
Jul 4 2005 // Kibble & Prentice announced the results of its annual employee benefits survey. With nearly 250 Washington state companies reporting, the results showed two surprising trends: The rate of increase of health plan costs...
Who’s Really Driving Consumer-Driven Health Care?
Jul 4 2005 // Over the past couple of years, the most used phrase in the employee benefits industry has been consumer-driven health care. Though its broadest definition may refer to limited employer contribution or dual option plans,...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
Survey Says Insurance Cost Increases Slow
Jul 4 2005 // Kibble & Prentice recently announced the results of its annual employee benefits survey. With nearly 250 Washington state companies reporting, the results showed two surprising trends: The rate of increase of health...
Analysis From Three Perspectives: Consumer, Employer and Broker
Jul 4 2005 // Analysis From Three Perspectives: Consumer, Employer and Broker Over the past couple of years, the most used phrase in the employee benefits industry has been consumer-driven health care. Though its broadest definition may...
Kibble & Prentice Survey Shows Insurance Cost Increases Slow
Jun 23 2005 // Seattle-based Kibble & Prentice announced the results of its annual employee benefits survey. With nearly 250 Washington state companies reporting, the results showed two surprising trends: the rate of increase of...
R.I. Draft Rules for Importing Canadian Drugs Include Product Liability
Jun 16 2005 // The Rhode Island Health Department has drafted guidelines that would govern drug imports from Canada, and help ensure the medications meet quality and safety standards in Rhode Island. The proposed rules would be another...
N.C. Police Officer Accused of Passing Fake Prescriptions, Insurance Fraud
Jun 9 2005 // Concord, N.C. Police Officer Dana Lynn Beninati has been suspended without pay after allegedly passing fake prescriptions and billing her insurance company. Lynn was arrested at her home and charged with 23 counts of...
Pharmaceutical Reviews Target Workers’ Compensation Drug Costs
Jun 3 2005 // With prescription drug costs in workers’ compensation mounting at an annual rate of 13 percent, Professional Reviews Inc., a physician peer review company based in Atlanta, has launched Physician Pharmaceutical...
Conn. Med-Mal Prescription Still Uncertain
Apr 26 2005 // Dealing with the thorny issue of how to ease doctors’ rising medical malpractice insurance rates, Connecticut lawmakers have managed this year to whittle dozens of proposals down to two. The work isn’t finished...
