Industry Insights
| America's Worst Worksite Disasters | 10/09/2014 | ||
| Source: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
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| When measured in lives lost during concentrated periods of time, these accidents are the worst ones in America. (The occupational victims of asbestos are not included; they deserve their own epitaph in a future column.) April 16, 1947: Texas City, Texas, dockside explosion takes cl...Read More | |||
| Aetna's of Coventry Work Comp Services... | 10/02/2014 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Is off. The latest intel from several folks in the know is consistent: APAX will not be buying Aetna’s Coventry workers’ comp business. While it's possible Aetna will look for another buyer, that is doubtful; the issues that reportedly led to the collapse of t...Read More | |||
| Anyone Notice WC Law Changes? | 09/23/2014 | ||
| Source: Michael T. Berns | |||
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| It not only appears that the Workers' Comp Board’s move from Menands to Schenectady was legal, but WCL §146 Office of the Board was changed last year as part of the annual budget bill. The old law read: § 146 Offices of the board. The principal office of th...Read More | |||
| A Beverage you cannot Drink | 08/27/2014 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I was privileged to sit through a discussion of workers' compensation issues and challenges this month. I learned a new term, the "ghost policy." When you sit around with workers' compensation experts, you can learn a great deal by listening carefully. I have had the benefit of ...Read More | |||
| August 2014 California Case Law Update | 08/07/2014 | ||
| By: Michael W. Sullivan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| INJURY In Gonzales v. Dirk Limas Corp., 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 264, the WCAB held that a carpenter's psychiatric injury was not barred by LC 3208.3(d), even though he had worked only three months at the time of the injury. STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS In Delta Dent...Read More | |||
| A Better Approach to Chronic Pain Management | 06/24/2014 | ||
| By: Dr. Pamela Thomas | |||
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| Maybe the discussion for specialists treating chronic pain should shift away from what law governs their treatment plans and toward what they should really be treating in chronic pain patients. The traditional biomedical model of chronic pain assumes chronic pain occurs because of deviat...Read More | |||
| Appellate Court Upholds Denial of Coal Miner's Claim | 06/20/2014 | ||
| By: James F. Egan | |||
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| In a positive decision which effects numerous employers in the state of Illinois, the Illinois Appellate Court, Workers’ Comp Division upheld the Workers' Compensation Commission's denial of benefits based upon the statute of limitations. In ...Read More | |||
| Appeals Court Splits Hairs to Bar Workers' Comp Subrogation | 06/09/2014 | ||
| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: OH | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Trial lawyers have a stranglehold on Ohio subrogation. Workers’ compensation subrogation in Ohio has gone through major transformations since it was ruled unconstitutional in 2001. Although subrogation is currently a statutory right of carriers and self-insured employers, it has been a bumpy r...Read More | |||
| Another Day, another Battle in the War on Overprescribing Opiates | 05/28/2014 | ||
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| Fresh off Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's donnybrook with Zogenix, maker of Zohydro ER, district attorneys from Orange and Santa Clara Counties in California have filed a consumer protection lawsuit against five opioid manufacturers, charging they conducted a more than decade-long massive...Read More | |||
| Arbitrator Sends Strong Message on Questionable Voc-Rehab Concept | 05/08/2014 | ||
| By: John P. Campbell | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In a ruling we consider important for our readers to be aware of, if you are going to offer an injured worker alternative vocational-rehabilitation services, such services better be conducted by a certified vocational counselor and provide legitimate outside placement. If not, a seven-figure permane...Read More | |||
