Industry Insights
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A Disconnect: IHSS and the Comp System | 12/10/2015 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
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| Julius Young Will Califor...Read More | |||
| Are We Only Paying Lip Service To Psychosocial Issues? | 11/17/2015 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
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| It is a cliché in the workers’ comp industry that claims adjusters never want “to buy a psych claim.” Perhaps that’s why they rarely resort to psychologists until the horse is out of the barn and grazing four pastures over. By then it’s a last resort kind of t...Read More | |||
| Agreements Matter | 11/05/2015 | ||
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| Workers' compensation is under most people's radar. There are industry sources for news in workers' compensation. There are not a great many workers' compensation-focused news sources, but a few like WorkCompCentral.com and WorkersCompensation.com provide news and feed...Read More | |||
| Appellate Court Upholds Exclusive Remedy Bar for Asbestos Exposure | 09/25/2015 | ||
| By: Richard M. Jacobsmeyer | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a case issued Sept. 17, the California 2nd Appellate District declined to open a new avenue to avoid the exclusive remedy of workers’ compensation in Melendrez v. Ameron International Corp., not on...Read More | |||
| AB 1542 Drama in the Capitol | 09/03/2015 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Now that Assembly Bill 1542 (Mathis and Cooley) has passed the California state Senate, 39-0, having already passed the Assembly, 79-0, we have a unique situation wherein the governor is being pressured by the Department of Industrial Relations to veto a bill that has unanimous bipartisan su...Read More | |||
| A Lesson in Chronic Pain Management from Nietzsche | 08/12/2015 | ||
| By: Michael Gavin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how." I bet you've never seen a Friedrich Nietzsche quote in a work comp blog post before. I came across this in a book recently, but I've also seen it plastered on social media and an occas...Read More | |||
| August 2015 Case Law Update | 08/06/2015 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| EMPLOYMENT In Noe v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (2015) 80 CCC 534, the 2nd District Court of Appeal held that LC 226.8, which prohibits the willful misclassification of individuals as independent contractors, is not limited to employers who make the misclassification decision, b...Read More | |||
| A Flight of Fancy: Air Ambulance Fee Disputes in Workers' Comp | 07/24/2015 | ||
| By: James M. Loughlin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Injured workers are sometimes transported by air ambulance helicopter due to their injuries. The transport may either be from the scene of an injury to a hospital or from one hospital to another for a higher level of care. Recently, the number of fee disputes over the amount of reimbursement owed...Read More | |||
| A Primer on Insurer Profits | 07/20/2015 | ||
| Source: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The profitability of workers' compensation has attracted a lot of attention of late. In part, that’s because the insurers have been celebrating. The NCCI’s state of the line report in 2014 said that the insurance market was “in balance” after a streak of ...Read More | |||
| Aging and Injury: The latest Evidence | 07/06/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The workforce has indeed been aging. In contrast to younger age groups, the workforce participation rate of those over 55 is increasing. In 2000, the 10% of lost-time injuries were sustained by workers 55 years old or older. Today, it’s 20%, and the share will continue to grow. Ther...Read More | |||
