Industry Insights
| Fee Schedule in Maine: Interest Without the Conflict? | 07/02/2010 | ||
| State: ME | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesWe return to the beautiful state of Maine, where moose wander the woods looking for whatever interests a moose and where employers self-insured for workers comp look for a fee schedule. The moose are a lot happier than the self...Read More | |||
| Federalizing Workers' Comp for Oil Spill Workers | 06/17/2010 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon GelmanThe Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest environmental disaster in US history, creates a massive challenge to the nations' workers' compensation system. The system, already stressed to its limits, must now attempt to compensate injured workers and volunteers who ...Read More | |||
| Federalizing Workers' Compensation for Oil Spill Workers | 06/14/2010 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon GelmanThe Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history, creates a massive challenge to the nations' workers' compensation system. The system, already stressed to its limits, must now attempt to compensate injured workers and volunteers wh...Read More | |||
| Firefighter Family Health Care Benefits go the Supreme Court | 06/08/2010 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By John P. Campbell Jr.Keefe, Campbell & AssociatesIn two separate but very similar cases, two divisions of the Illinois 1st District Appellate Court disagree as to the factual elements needed for firefighters to qualify for family lifetime health coverage. Accordingly, we look...Read More | |||
| Florida's (Repackaged) Drug Problem | 06/03/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealth Strategy AssociatesMike Whiteley of WorkCompCentral's article on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of the bill limiting reimbursement for physician-dispensed repackaged drugs illustrates just how confusing the weird world of work comp can be to the unini...Read More | |||
| Fall-down Case Results in Initial Denial | 03/01/2010 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Eugene KeefeSynopsis: Fall-down case results in initial denial by Arbitrator of knee injury due to questionable credibility; reversal by Commission and affirmation by reviewing courts. While we hate to see this outcome, from a purely academic perspective, the Appellat...Read More | |||
| Fla's 2003 Reforms as they Pertain to Injured Workers | 01/25/2010 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By M. Benjamin Murphey“I am an invisible man…a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Ralph Waldo Ellison.Perhaps, it coul...Read More | |||
| From Hedge Funds to Workers' Compensation Board | 01/19/2010 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanBack in June we blogged the resignation of Zach Weiss from one of the more difficult jobs in America: head of New York's workers comp board. Weiss had been appointed by former governor Elliot Spitzer (whose libidinous indiscretions, we note in passing, were relatively...Read More | |||
| Former Sec. 413.031(k) of Texas Labor Code is Constitutional | 12/29/2009 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By James M. Loughlin In a long-awaited decision, the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin has declared that former Section 413.031(k) of the Workers’ Compensation Act is facially constitutional, reversing Travis County District Court Judge Stephen Yelenosky’s Dec. 7, 2006 judgment ...Read More | |||
| Fingers Count as Members, Too | 10/16/2009 | ||
| By: Arik D. Hetue | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Arik D. Hetue Synopsis: Do fingers and toes count as "members" under the Illinois WC Act for the purposes of application of the statutory minimum rate for amputations? Editor's comment: We here at Keefe Campbell and Associates have heard ...Read More | |||
