Industry Insights
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Chahal: Utilization Review and Timeliness | 05/06/2016 | |
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| SB 863 attempted to improve the delivery of medical benefits to applicants by mandating the use of evidence-based medicine via utilization review (UR) and independent medical review (IMR). ...Read More | |||
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Clingman: Insurance Con | 05/03/2016 | |
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| This week Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak once again has joined other elected officials and others in the continued assault on Oklahoma’s working families. ...Read More | |||
| CWCI: Supreme Court Denies Review of Stevens | 02/23/2016 | ||
| By: California Workers’ Compensation Institute | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Last Wednesday, the State Supreme Court declined to review the 1st District Court of Appeal’s October 2015 ruling in Stevens v. WCAB (Outspoken Entertainment) which found that: 1) The California Workers’ Compensation Independent Medical Review (IMR) process is not u...Read More | |||
| Constant or Persistent "Non-Trauma?" | 01/15/2016 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In workers' compensation, we have seen an evolution. I recently heard Frank Neuhauser speak about the future of workers' compensation. He appeared at the Southern Association of Workers...Read More | |||
| Cleansing | 11/13/2015 | ||
| Source: Julius Young | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Array | |||
| Making headlines this week is another high-profile indictment in California workers’ comp. The federal charges allege a fraudulent kickback scheme among various Southern California medical providers, including doctors, chiropractors and durable equipment providers. This indi...Read More | |||
| California Case Law Update | 10/15/2015 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| NEW! Treatt USA v. Superior Court, B263117, (10/08/2015): A California appellate court ruled that a worker suffering from a chronic and disabling lung condition as a result of his occupational exposure to diacetyl and acetyl propionyl waited too long to file a personal injury suit against th...Read More | |||
| California Case Law Update | 09/24/2015 | ||
| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Matute v. Los Angeles Unified School District, ADJ984305, (09/17/2015): The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, sitting en banc, ruled that a party wishing to appeal from an adverse independent medical review determination gets 35 days to file a petition for review with the board....Read More | |||
| Cyber Threats and WC: An Industry Confab May Be Needed | 09/08/2015 | ||
| By: Nancy Grover (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Are cyber attacks really a threat to the workers' comp industry? Should payers start reserving for this? How can the industry "model" for this risk? After speaking recently with a couple of workers' comp security/tekkie types who scared the bejesus out of me, my ans...Read More | |||
| Case Deals with Credibility of Evidence | 08/05/2015 | ||
| By: Paul E. Peifer | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| When Kelly Perry severely injured both thumbs in an industrial accident at his job with Viking Forge Corp. in September 2008, his subsequent workers’ compensation claim brought his case before us – the Ohio Supreme Court. The same day that Perry was injured, Dr. Drew R. E...Read More | |||
| California Case Law Update | 07/31/2015 | ||
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| NEW! State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Michael D. Drobot Sr., et al., SACV 13-0956 AG (CWx), (07/28/2015): A federal judge postponed until next summer the sentencing hearing for Michael D. Drobot, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to defraud a federal health care program and admi...Read More | |||
