Industry Insights
| Benefits for Activities of Daily Life will Massacre the Golden Goose | 05/18/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| As fast as we reported on the report from Illinois state Attorney General Lisa Madigan about issues facing the workers' compensation program for state workers, we saw another impossible-to-understand workers' compensation claim and ruling out of, you guessed it, the Menard Correctional Cente...Read More | |||
| Biology is Different in Ariz., when Driven by Politics | 03/22/2012 | ||
| State: AZ | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI) have a constant public relations campaign going on convincing states that have not yet adopted medical treatment guidelines that it is more efficient and ethical to adopt national based st...Read More | |||
| Bill Puts More Power in Hands of Physicians who Dispense Drugs | 02/29/2012 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In a state with the second highest incidence of drug overdose deaths in the nation, I am surprised that this type of legislation is getting steam. I’ve written before about physicians prescribing drugs and dispensing themselves. Chapter 440 has specific language that forbids an emp...Read More | |||
| Bring Workers' Comp Benefits in Line with Other States | 02/13/2012 | ||
| By: Indiana State Sen. Karen Tallian | |||
| State: IN | Segment: | 0 | |||
| State Sen. Karen Tallian (D-Portage) says she is extremely disappointed that a bill she authored to bring Indiana's workers' compensation benefits in line with other states will not receive a hearing this year. The legislation, Senate Bill 346, was not given a public hearing in a Senate comm...Read More | |||
| Businesses Getting Left at the Alter on Workers' Comp Savings | 01/24/2012 | ||
| By: Arik D. Hetue | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Utilization review, or UR, became a fixture for the Illinois workers’ compensation system when it was brought to our state by a prominent Illinois claimant lawyer as part of the 2005-6 amendments to the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. Five years of limited effectiveness and disappointm...Read More | |||
| Bad News for Nev. Injured Workers who Fall at Work? | 12/23/2011 | ||
| State: NV | Segment: | 0 | |||
| According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010, about a fifth of all workplace fatalities in Nevada were caused by a worker falling. Almost every serious fall injury I've handled in the Nevada work comp arena in the past 15 years was caused either by the employer's obvious f...Read More | |||
| Brown v. US Steel: A Story of Retirement Benefits and MSP Triggers | 11/23/2011 | ||
| By: Jennifer Jordan | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Understanding the order of priority in determining who pays first when Medicare is involved can be extremely complex. As I reported earlier this year, where you are in the payer lineup may very well be your defense to Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP) claims brought against you as it cannot always ...Read More | |||
| Baker Redux | 10/27/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Call it Baker Redux.In response to a petition for rehearing filed by San Jose attorney Arthur Johnson, the California Supreme Court issued a modified opinion that can be found via the link at the bottom of the article.Johnson's petition for rehearing had noted that the Ba...Read More | |||
| Brown Awarded Accolades from Insurers | 10/18/2011 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Editor's note: The author is commenting on Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of Assembly Bill 584 by Paul Fong, D-Cupertino. The measure would have allowed utilization review in workers' comp only by physicians licensed in California.Gov. Brown and former Gov. Schwarzenegger hav...Read More | |||
| Before Discussing Reform, Define the Mission | 07/27/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By David J. DePaoloWorkCompCentralPanelists at the California Coalition on Workers' Compensation's 9th annual Educational Conference on Friday all had points of cost elements that they felt should get attention as loss ratios accelerate and impair the business of insurance ...Read More | |||
