Industry Insights
| Coventry's perspective on workers' comp | 01/16/2008 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaCoventry Chief Executive Officer Dale Wolf presented a brief overview of the company's prospects at a JP Morgan conference last week. While Wolf's comments about WC were brief, they were also revealing. (A webcast is available till 4/7/08).To date, the WC...Read More | |||
| Coventry's perspective on workers' comp | 01/14/2008 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joseph PadudaCoventry CEO Dale Wolf presented a brief overview of the company's prospects at a JP Morgan conference last week - while Wolf's comments about WC were brief, they were also revealing. To date, the WC business has 'Done very well" (paraphrase) -- wh...Read More | |||
| Cost savings alone don't mean the state should increase benefits. | 10/19/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| --Riverside Press Enterterprise The fact California's overhaul of workers' compensation has cut costs by billions of dollars is ...Read More | |||
| Coventry's work comp strategy. | 10/17/2007 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| --By Joe Paduda Coventry was wasted no time. Just a month after the company signed an (essentially) exclusive deal to market Aetna's workers comp network, a deal that elimi...Read More | |||
| Court Finds No Labor Law Liability for Elevator Installer | 09/22/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Buckley v. Columbia Grammar and Preparatory, NYLJ 8/27/07 (1st Dept 2007) Plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.) which granted defendants' motions for summary judgment and denied plaintiffs' cross moti...Read More | |||
| Court Affirms Dismissal of Occupational Pulmonary And Orthopedic Claims | 08/11/2007 | ||
| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By John H. Geaney Yogini Patel filed an occupational disease claim against Federated Logistics for injuries from alleged exposures to dust, fumes, and pulmonary irritants, as well as repeated bending and lifting from 1999 through Sept. 28, 2002. Petitioner testified at trial that sh...Read More | |||
| Carrier Has No Lien on Taxi Driver's Personal Injury Settlement | 08/11/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Alam v. Taxi Wheels to Lease Inc., NYLJ 08/07/07 (Index no. 46810/03) (Supreme Court, Kings Co.) (Harkavy, j) Defendant Taxi Wheels is an entity licensed by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) to manage taxi medallions, and was the mana...Read More | |||
| Calif. Court Narrows Made Whole Doctrine | 07/14/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| On June 14, the California Court of Appeal for the 4th District struck a blow for the good guys in the ongoing made whole battle which is waging in this country's courts. As some courts broadly apply the doctrine to defeat virtually any subrogation or reimbursement right -- even going so...Read More | |||
| Court Hands Victory to Subrogation over the Made-Whole Doctrine | 07/14/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In what will surely be a significant victory for subrogation in Texas, the Texas Supreme Court held that policy language will trump the application of the made whole doctrine. The case, Fortis Benefits v. Cantu, 05-0791, 06/29/2007, was handled by Attorney Loren R. Smith and also ...Read More | |||
| Court Affirms Higher Wage for Employee Injured on First Day | 07/14/2007 | ||
| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By John H. Geaney In the case of Jesus Ventura v. Reliable Wood Products, A-4554-05T1, (App. Div. March 30, 2007), the petitioner was seriously injured on his first day of work for the respondent. He had gone to a supermarket parking lot in Orange, N.J. and was looking for work. H...Read More | |||
