Month: June 2019

Minority Business Development Agency Seeking Award Nominations

Winners of 2018 MBDA Annual Awards

The U.S. Minority Business Development Agency is accepting nominations for its National Minority Enterprise Development Week Awards. Bestowed by the Department of Commerce since 1982, the awards recognize minority-owned business enterprises for outstanding achievements in three different categories: Minority Firms of the Year, Champions of Minority Business Development and Individual Achievement. Each category is further […]

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The Carmoon Group, Ltd. Launches Scholarship Fund for Carriacou’s Bishop’s College

Students at Bishop's College will benefit from scholarship fund

The Carmoon Group, Ltd. is pleased to announce the creation of a scholarship fund to benefit Bishop’s College Secondary School in Carriacou, Grenada. In keeping with its long-held commitment to higher education, the company will award $1,000 (US) to the Bishop’s College Secondary School student who, in the judgement of the faculty, demonstrates the highest […]

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Federal Judge Upholds Washington Law Protecting Hanford Employees

Photo shows Hanford workers in a toxic cloud

The U.S. government has lost a bid to dismantle a Washington state law that offers “presumptive” workers compensation benefits to injured workers at the now-defunct Hanford nuclear plant. The law was passed in 2018 after a two-year investigation by Seattle’s King 5 News revealed that workers at the site were routinely denied workers compensation benefits […]

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Workers Comp Insurers Preparing for Disasters

Flood waters courtesy of NOAA

With the U.S. heading into another hurricane season, the Midwest digging out from a series of devastating storms, and record heat and potential wildfires blanketing the West Coast, worker’s compensation insurers are ramping up efforts to ensure that beneficiaries continue to receive care and financial compensation when disaster strikes. Following the lead of Boston-based Liberty […]

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Ohio to Phase Out Oxycontin for Workers Comp

Two bottles of OxyContin pills

The Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation has ordered the removal of OxyContin and its generic equivalents from it’s workers compensation formulary beginning June 1, 2019. Citing the high potential for “abuse, misuse, addiction and dependence,” the BWC will no longer authorize new prescritpions for the drug, and will require workers who are currently taking it […]

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