Industry Insights
| Vines: Revisions to Appeals Board Rules | 12/14/2023 | ||
| By: Elizabeth K. Vines | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| When speaking on behalf of the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals Board to any audience, I always stress the importance of reading our rules. They’re our “how-to” manual and can help practitioners and self-represented litigants alike avoid losing an appeal on te...Read More | |||
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Vasquez: See's Candies: The Unwitting Supplier to Forrest Gump | 01/13/2022 | |
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| By: Davil R. Vasquez | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| According to Forrest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get.” See’s Candies recently learned that lesson, as explained on Dec. 21, 2021, by the California Court of Appeal. ...Read More | |||
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VanDillen: The Pandemic Is Leveling Out. Now What? | 05/21/2020 | |
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| By: Linda VanDillen | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Our employees may have become deconditioned over the past three months. According to a WebMD article regarding a Danish study on healthy aging, it takes just two weeks of physical inactivity for those who are physically fit to lose a significant amount of their muscle strength. ...Read More | |||
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Varney: Material Cause Standard Applies in Combined Condition Claim | 11/25/2019 | |
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| Source: Karen S. Varney | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On remand from the Oregon Court of Appeals, the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board recently found that although a combined condition had been accepted and a current combined condition denial, the material cause standard applied for determining compensability of a diagnostic MRI. ...Read More | |||
| Vexatious Litigants and Disqualifying Judges | 02/05/2016 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| WorkCompCentral reported recently that Arizona has introduced a bill to reform or reshape some aspects of its workers' compensation statute. ...Read More | |||
| Viewing Alternatives to WC From Helpful Historical v. Impeding Ideological Perspectives | 01/06/2016 | ||
| By: Daryl Davis | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As legal alternatives to workers’ compensation grow in number and popularity, employers will save money and employees will—in aggregate—receive better care.1 As this market grows, my income will also grow. ...Read More | |||
| Voc-Rehab may have Forever Changed for the Worse | 11/27/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| We recommend all business observers take a long hard look before you make the decision to appeal workers' compensation cases past the Circuit Court level in this state. We are letting our clients know the math on getting a solid defense ruling or even a dissent from an Illinois workers' comp...Read More | |||
| Valdez and MPNs | 06/15/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Court of Appeals decision in Valdez got me thinking further about medical provider networks.If reports from non-MPN doctors are admissible, will this just accelerate efforts by some attorneys and defendants to "treat on a lien", accelerating the lien problem that plagues California&#...Read More | |||
| Verizon to Pay $20 Million to Settle EEOC Disability Suit | 08/19/2011 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Telecommunications giant Verizon Communications announced that it will pay $20 million and provide significant equitable relief to resolve a nationwide class disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit, filed against 24 nam...Read More | |||
| Virginia's No-Brainer | 04/15/2011 | ||
| State: VA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesWe have long puzzled over a peculiar and cruel stipulation in Virginia's workers comp statute that denies coverage to workers with brain injuries, where the injury had no witnesses and the injured could not testify on their own behalf....Read More | |||
