Industry Insights
| Apportionment Available to Defendants, But Not Necessarily Easily Achieved | 05/05/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer The California Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in five consolidated cases commonly known as Welcher/Brodie. The court issued an unequivocal decision validating the continued use of the so called formula A methodology for calculating the v...Read More | |||
| Avoiding the 'Misclassification Crisis' | 05/05/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By DeWayne Pope On March 27, 2007, at an U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Workplace Protections hearing in Washington D.C., Congress and the U.S. Department of Labor were called upon to address the "unchecked and growing practice" of misclassifying employees as independent co...Read More | |||
| Appellate Case on Labor Code Section 132a | 04/21/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer The 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed a WCAB decision that denied liability under Labor Code Section 132a for a public entity that required its employees to use vacation time rather than sick leave for lost time for industrial injuries but allowed employees who we...Read More | |||
| An Employee Does, But Benefits Persist | 04/21/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By James B. Kennedy When the Missouri Supreme Court denied the Second Injury Fund's motion for rehearing on March 20 in the recent Schoemehl case, it caused the Missouri workers' compensation law to take a step backward. The implications of this case on the future inter...Read More | |||
| After All, We're Not Savages | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe R. Anderson and Robert Graves William Golding, in his classic novel Lord of the Flies, explained that: "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages." To that end, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), recently adopted...Read More | |||
| An Overview of Benefits for the New Year | 12/30/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Mike Sullivan With the onset of the New Year, now is a good time for carriers and TPAs to assess their obligations with regards to new benefits rates going into effect January 1. AB 749, which was passed in 2002, set forth a schedule of annual benefits increases and terms for their app...Read More | |||
| America's Most Dangerous Factories | 12/30/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By David Michaels Meat factories continue to be among the most dangerous places to work in America. According to a devastating article in the Dallas Morning News, "thousands of illegal immigrants gravitate toward meatpacking plants in places like Cactus, Texas" where each year more than o...Read More | |||
| A New Season of Services | 12/30/2006 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Peter Rousmaniere Managed-care customers are showing bigger appetites for quality medical providers, electronic connectivity and analytics, while trimming their purchases of case management. And we're seeing more crossover business in health insurance and nonoccupational lines. We're i...Read More | |||
| A Perspective on New Peer Review Rules | 12/16/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of three columns written to provide the reader with an overview of the issues of contention associated with the use of peer reviews in the Texas workers' compensation system. This series of perspective articles has been written at the request of the In...Read More | |||
| Audit Report Confirms WSI Performance Problems | 12/16/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Rep. Jasper Schneider In my practice as an attorney, my firm has represented hundreds of hard-working men and women who "through no fault of their own" have had the unfortunate experience of being injured on the job. While our workers' compensation system is supposed to be ...Read More | |||
