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The topic of workers' compensation fraud is highly controversial, with claimant supporters arguing that fraud by claimants is rare—as low as one-third of one percent, [63] others focusing on the widely reported National Insurance Crime Bureau statistic that workers' compensation fraud accounts for $7.2 billion in unnecessary costs, [64] and ...
In 1996, he advocated successful legislative initiative to reform workers’ compensation in the state, including establishing a workers’ compensation fraud unit in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. In 1998, he was author and co-sponsor of a bill that established a program of employment training grants for companies that provide highly ...
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of ...
Tennessee's workforce shortage reached 100,000 in March 2023, according to the University of Memphis Workforce in Progress report for the Tennessee Business Leadership Council.
The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs administers four major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease. [2]
The Labor Department has prioritized child labor enforcement since last spring amid a 152% increase in children found to be illegally employed since 2018, according to department figures. Show ...
The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) is a state Cabinet agency of the government of Tennessee. The main job of the agency is to regulate and ...
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