Industry Insights
| Are immigrant Workers Safe? | 05/26/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
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| A young, immigrant and undocumented worker in an above-average injury job is not a situation anyone would prefer to be in. A recent report zeros in on some of these workers. This month, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the American Society for Safety Eng...Read More | |||
| April 2015 Case Law Update | 04/02/2015 | ||
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| BUSINESS OF INSURANCE In Chavarria v. Vasquez, dba JRV Construction, 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 35, the WCAB held that an insurer remained liable for workers' compensation benefits to an injured worker even though it had a pending civil action for rescission of a worker's com...Read More | |||
| Appellate Court Nails another One | 03/25/2015 | ||
| By: Shawn R. Biery | |||
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| The Illinois 5th District Appellate Court ruled the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, not the Circuit Court, has exclusive jurisdiction to decide whether a claimant who settled a third-party lawsuit resulting from a work-related accident may also pursue workers' compensation bene...Read More | |||
| Anticipating the Future | 03/16/2015 | ||
| Source: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
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| A very cold Vermont winter suddenly broke in early March. Maple syrup lines are flowing. In another kind of spring awakening, a surge of seemingly unrelated challenges question if workers’ compensation’s "Grand Bargain" should be saved or abandoned. There&rsquo...Read More | |||
| Apportionment and SIBTF: Acme Steel v. Bowman | 03/04/2015 | ||
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| When California Labor Codes 4663 and 4664 were changed pursuant to Senate Bill 899 it was understood by the legal and medical stakeholders that major changes in applicable case law were in the making and that the issue of apportionment was about to become even more difficult than it already was. ...Read More | |||
| A Wellness Smell Test | 02/10/2015 | ||
| By: Barry Thompson | |||
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| Here is a wellness needs-analysis to help you choose the best approach for your company. ...Read More | |||
| Appeals Court Reverses WCAB Application of Coming and Going Rule | 01/08/2015 | ||
| By: Richard M. Jacobsmeyer | |||
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| The California 2nd District Court of Appeal has reversed a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision, which had in turn reversed a workers' compensation judge's decision in a going and coming rule case. In Shultz v WCAB (Joint Test Tactics And Training (JT3)) the Cour...Read More | |||
| A Nifty Tool to Predict Claims Costs | 12/08/2014 | ||
| Source: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
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| A basic article of belief in the field of workers’ compensation claims is that a small number of claims are particularly difficult to manage and account for a large share of claims costs. An applied Pareto Principle, expressed in a “20-80” rule, would say that 20% ...Read More | |||
| A UR Denial and 12 Months of Peace | 11/17/2014 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
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| So, there you are – triumphantly stroking the recent independent medical review decision which upheld the utilization-review determination that the injured worker is not entitled to fresh shipments of caviar to help with his industrial paper cut. What a wonderful feeling – justice is ...Read More | |||
| Asbestos Pokes its Long Nose out from under the Workers' Comp Tent | 11/06/2014 | ||
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| Judgments in two recent court cases held that long-tail asbestos claims are not subject to the comp bar. A very good friend who spends most of his time dealing with asbestos claims for a very large carrier shared this with me in a recent email. Here’s how he put it: If t...Read More | |||
