Industry Insights
| Emma Murray Postmortem | 10/28/2008 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael RabinowitzIf you think that judges sit in their legal ivory towers, above the political fray, you are blissfully naive. Case in point: one day after the Florida Supreme Court rolled back the Claimant attorney fee cap in workers' comp, the 1st District Court of Appeals (the...Read More | |||
| Education Codes Benefits Counted as TTD | 08/19/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By Richard M. "Jake" JacobsmeyerIn another case that adds to our growing understanding of Labor Code Section 4656(c)(1) (two-year limits on payment of temporary total disability), the 1st Appellate District has reversed a WCAB Decision After Reconsideration which had ruled benefits provi...Read More | |||
| Education Code Benefits Trigger Two-Year TTD Cap | 08/12/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| By Richard M. "Jake" JacobsmeyerIn another case that adds to our growing understanding of Labor Code Section 4656(c)(1) (Two year limits on payment of TTD), the 1st Appellate District has reversed a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision after reconsideration which had ruled be...Read More | |||
| Employer Can't Raise Immigration Status Issue in Litigation | 08/11/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Gomez v. F&T Int'l (Flushing, New York) LLC, NYLJ 7/16/07 (Index no. 101817/05) (Supreme Court, New York County) (Acosta, j) This action arises out of a Feb. 4, 2005 construction site accident. F & T Int'l LLC was the owner of a certain prop...Read More | |||
| Epicondylitis: To Rate or Not to Rate? | 07/28/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Leslie Dilbeck The Guides are very specific in how to address the issue of epicondylitis. They have broken down the methodology into two scenarios: surgical versus non-surgical. Non-Surgical: Section 16.7d Tendinitis (5th ed., 507) states "Se...Read More | |||
| Effects of Treatment | 07/14/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Guides offer the following discussion for this impairment rating (5th ed., 20): * In certain instances, the treatment of an illness may result in apparently total remission of the person's signs and symptoms. Examples include the treatment of hypothyroidism with levothyroxine and ...Read More | |||
| Extension Lag vs. Passive Flexion Contracture | 05/19/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Craig M. Uejo | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Craig Uejo When rating Impairment of the lower extremity after Total Knee Replacement, an examiner must know to examine and document both passive and active motion in the knee so as insure measurement of Extension Lag and Flexion Contracture, if present. These terms are not interch...Read More | |||
| EDI News From Around The Nation | 05/05/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| ROES Updates Automated Triggers is coming to WorkComp.NET! Are you tired of remembering when a report needs to go to the state? If so, contact Pat Cannon at (512) 363-4297, e-mail: prcannon@roeisinc.com to learn how we can automatic...Read More | |||
| Examining Hand Strength in Presence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | 03/24/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Christopher R. Brigham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Christopher Brigham Greetings, and welcome to this week's impairment tip. This week's impairment tip is courtesy of Kenneth Subin, MD, MPH, CIME, one of our senior physician reviewers. Muscle strength testing is discussed in the Guides 5th ed. in Chapter 16,...Read More | |||
| Echeverria and the Exceptions Under Labor Code Section 4660(d) | 02/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Linda F. Atcherley INTRODUCTION I was kindly asked to write an article on Echeverria, the correct citation of which is State Compensation Insurance Fund v. WCAB (Echeverria), SRO 131702 and the First Appellate District Case number is A114505, a currently unpublished d...Read More | |||
