Industry Insights
| Important Recent Florida Case Law | 05/22/2009 | ||
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| NEW! Rose v. North American Van Lines, SC07-2432 (05/14/2009): The Florida Supreme Court granted a petition for review and remanded a case back to the 1st District Court of Appeal for further consideration in light of the high court's 2008 decision in Sanders v. City of Orlando. ...Read More | |||
| Illinois Government May Never Be the Same | 05/14/2009 | ||
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| By Eugene F. Keefe Breaking News: The Workers' Compensation Commission may be wildly changed and swept clean in the next 60 days along with the rest of Illinois...Read More | |||
| It is Official: Wilkinson Is Dead | 05/05/2009 | ||
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| By Michel LeClercOn April 29, 2009, the California Supreme Court denied review of the 1st District Court of Appeal case of Benson v. WCAB (2009) 170 Cal. App 4th 1535; 74 Cal. Comp. Cases 113, leaving the Benson decision as controlling law on apportionment of multiple injuries to t...Read More | |||
| Insurance Chief Has High-Profile Assignment With WC Rate Hikes | 04/29/2009 | ||
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| By Julius YoungInjured workers and labor activists were welcome to attend this week's Department of Insurance meeting on workers' comp rates.The hearing, held Tuesday in San Francisco, was in response to the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau's reco...Read More | |||
| I Stand Corrected on my Ogilvie Analysis | 04/17/2009 | ||
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| By Michel LeClercThanks to Kenneth Kingdon for pointing out an error in the Ogilvie analysis I did (posted on WorkCompCentral Feb. 21, 2009) in the case of Maria [below]. Here's what went wrong and how it should look.In my example, Maria returned to a minimum wage j...Read More | |||
| I Apologize Hank. Please Come Back! | 03/07/2009 | ||
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| EDITORIALbyDavid J. DePaolo"No one was responsible for the whole company. There was no umbrella regulator over the whole company, and there was a piece of the company – Financial Products – that really wasn't being superv...Read More | |||
| Insurers Can Negotiate CPD Letters To Realize Savings | 01/24/2009 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By John WilliamsAs most already know, Mandatory Insurer Reporting (MIR) will allow the government to easily identify any unresolved conditional payments and the primary payers that are responsible for them. In the past, many settlements contained language that placed the burden of reimbu...Read More | |||
| Is this the Shape of Things to Come? | 10/29/2008 | ||
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| By Sam GoldThe U.S. 6th Circuit Court in Michigan has reversed a district court’s decision to dismiss a civil RICO complaint brought by six current and former employees of a trucking company after being ordered by the United States Supreme Court to reconsider their action....Read More | |||
| Illegal Aliens - What Should Their Right of Compensation Be? | 08/05/2008 | ||
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| Federal law prohibits illegal aliens from working in America. It is illegal for the alien to seek employment. It’s illegal for the employer to employ the alien. Nevertheless, even if an employer tries to avoid hiring an illegal alien, employers still find themselves having hired illegal aliens...Read More | |||
| Injured Workers Need More | 06/24/2008 | ||
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| By the Star-LedgerTrenton lawmakers have made a respectable start on reforming New Jersey's ailing workers' compensation system. Bills are advancing that, among other things, will speed claims, give compensation judges more power to enforce their orders and penalize employers who...Read More | |||
