Industry Insights
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Weinmann: All Is Not Well in California and Hawaii | 02/14/2019 | |
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| Source: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Duty of care (King v. CompPartners) was reviewed in this column in October. The case involved the sudden discontinuation by a utilization review physician of patient Kirk King's klonopin. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: State Adopts 'Frye Standard' for Experts | 01/07/2019 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Florida’s tug-of-war between its courts and its Legislature regarding the appropriate standard for a judge to use to assess the admissibility of an expert’s opinion testimony has finally been settled. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court Opens Door to Employee Intervention After Statute of Limitations Runs | 12/20/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Illinois Supreme Court has somewhat clarified an injured employee’s rights to pursue a third-party case by intervening into a third-party subrogation suit filed by the workers’ compensation carrier, even after the personal injury statute of limitations runs. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court Confirms Strength of Carrier's Subrogation Lien | 11/29/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Subrogation professionals are duty-bound to maximize a workers’ compensation subrogation recovery for a WC carrier and its insured employer, which is eager to maintain a favorable experience rating. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: Duty of Care vs. Utilization Review | 10/30/2018 | |
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| Source: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Worker's Malpractice Action Against UR Doctor Comes to an End is WorkCompCen...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: SB 790 Bites the Dust | 09/21/2018 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Our decidedly negative story on Senate Bill 790 about gifts and ben...Read More | |||
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Wickert: State Reverses Itself on Post-Settlement Trials | 09/19/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In Arizona, a workers’ compensation carrier’s statutory lien under § 23–1023 is subject to being reduced if an employer is found to be negligent by a jury. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: UR Physicians Do Not Owe Injured Workers 'Duty of Care' | 09/18/2018 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| That utilization review physicians do not owe a duty of care to injured workers can reasonably be deduced from the recent California Supreme Court decision that trashed Kirk King's tort claim over an in...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Subrogable: Is It or Isn't It a Word? | 09/13/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary Wickert | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We are just as guilty as everyone else. Gar...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: KP Public Affairs Assumes Advocacy at CSIMS | 09/05/2018 | |
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| Source: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery (CSIMS) aligned with AdvoCal-represented private physicians engaged in industrial or occupational medicine for 37 years. ...Read More | |||
