Industry Insights
| Are Injured Workers Avoiding Comp? | 09/12/2012 | ||
| State: NH | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Insider has come across an intriguing but ultimately frustrating study concerning the under-reporting of workers' comp claims in New Hampshire. Under the auspices of the state Department of Health and Human Services, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey (with the unfortunate...Read More | |||
| A Micro-step into the Electronic Age | 08/31/2012 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Last month, Tom Lynch posted a concise and rather devastating macro view of workers' comp costs in New York. Today we revisit an issue that illustrates the difficulty of lowering costs in the Empire State: the use of stenographers in each of the several hundred thousand hearings that take place ...Read More | |||
| A Field Guide to Reform | 08/08/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| It's likely that we'll see a comprehensive California workers' comp reform bill emerging in the next few weeks.That proposal has been closely guarded by the small group involved in those negotiations.So before a proposal actually sees the light of day, perhaps thi...Read More | |||
| AMA 6th Study Doesn't Answer the Big Question | 07/23/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An interesting thing happened when three states migrated to the Sixth Ed. of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment - the average impairment ratings declined.That is what the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) reported on Wednesday.Impairm...Read More | |||
| Attorney's Fees Permissible from California WCMSAs After All | 07/16/2012 | ||
| By: Jennifer Jordan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| You all may recall that in 2010, the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board ruled in Pratt v. Wells Fargo that attorneys' fees could not be determined based upon MSAs. Although panel decisions are not binding, applicant attorneys throughout the state have been outraged none the less ...Read More | |||
| Appellate Case of the Quarter: Valdez v. WCAB | 07/13/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The workers’ compensation community has been pondering the reversal and remand by the 2nd District Court of Appeal of the WCAB en banc decision in the matter of Valdez v. WCAB and Warehouse Demo Services filed May 29, 2012. Various legal observers have offered their opinions as to whether the ...Read More | |||
| AB 1687 | 05/30/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| If there is one thing that leaves injured workers frustrated, it's the procedures that frequently result in treatment denials.Between 2005 and 2010, medical cost-containment expenses almost quadrupled. That includes expenses for utilization review and bill review.Insurers...Read More | |||
| Alternatives to Workers' Comp and Long-Term Issues | 05/16/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I had a couple of interesting conversations last week at the National Council of Compensation Insurance Annual Issues Symposium about alternative risk management in workers' compensation, instigated by discussions on what I thought would be disruptions to the marketplace should Oklahoma non-subs...Read More | |||
| Apellate Case of the Quarter: Escamilla v. WCAB | 04/10/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In an en banc decision, the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board gave notice that it may, pursuant to Labor Code section 4907, suspend or remove hearing representative Mr. Daniel Escamilla’s privilege to appear in any proceeding as a representative of any party before the WCAB or...Read More | |||
| A Painful Path to Academic Lab Safety | 03/07/2012 | ||
| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This month, University of California, Los Angeles chemistry professor Patrick Harran and the UC Board of Regents will be facing an ordeal they likely never anticipated: A court arraignment on felony charges related to a 2008 laboratory fire that killed Sheri Sangji. They face three counts each of wi...Read More | |||
