Industry Insights
| One Way to ID Scofflaw Employers: IRS Co Op | 09/26/2011 | ||
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| Al Capone wasn't brought down on racketeering charges.No, it was income taxes.And now scofflaw employers who misclassify their workers as independent contractors will face similar fate if agreements between The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the Internal Revenue Service ...Read More | |||
| Ogilvie Petition to Supreme Court Pending | 09/16/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The lengthy saga in the Ogilvie v WCAB (City & County of San Francisco) will continue for at least a while longer as the defendant in the case, C&CSF, has filed a petition for hearing in the California Supreme Court, seeking review of the 1st District Court of Appeal's rather confusing d...Read More | |||
| Ogilvie Appeal Filed with the Calif. Supreme Court | 09/15/2011 | ||
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| Confounding the expectations of many workers' comp pundits, the City and County of San Francisco has filed a petition for review with the California Supreme Court in the Ogilvie case on Sept. 7.The argument used by Danny Chou, chief of complex and special litigation for the City and ...Read More | |||
| Ogilvie Overturned: The Issues we Face | 09/01/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| On July 29, the California 1st District Court of Appeal issued the long-awaited decision of Ogilvie v. WCAB, (2011) 76 CCC 624. The court held that the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule may be rebutted, but specifically rejected the method established by the appeals board in the en banc deci...Read More | |||
| Outlook for Workers' Comp: Centennial in a Storm | 08/30/2011 | ||
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| In this summer of weather extremes, workers' comp is celebrating its 100th birthday in America. The weather forecast - along with the prognosis for workers' comp probably sound familiar: periodic storms, heavy rain, damaging winds. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has i...Read More | |||
| OSHA to Focus on Infections in the Workplace | 07/12/2011 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
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| By Jon GelmanThe U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled two informal stakeholder meetings to solicit comments on exposure to infectious diseases in the workplace OSHA will use information gathered during these meetings to explore the possible development of a pr...Read More | |||
| OSHA Puts Residential Construction Contractors on Notice | 07/05/2011 | ||
| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
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| By Julie FergusonIn December of 2010, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration introduced stronger worker safeguards to prevent falls in residential cons...Read More | |||
| Opioids in Workers' Comp: Attacking the Messenger | 03/31/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaCompPharma and Health Strategy AssociatesOn March 23, WorkCompCentral had a piece by Greg Jones noting complaints by the California Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and California Society for Industrial Medicine and Surgery about the study on physician p...Read More | |||
| Opioids in Workers' Comp: the Prescriber Problem | 03/10/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaCompPharma and Health Strategy AssociatesThe Pareto Principle states that 20% of the causes generate 80% of the effects.The Pareto Principle doesn't apply to physicians prescribing opioids, at least not in California. It's far worse than that....Read More | |||
| Opioids and Chronic Pain Treatment | 02/01/2011 | ||
| By: Dr. Steven D. Feinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By Dr. Steven D. FeinbergFeinberg Medical GroupMany physicians do not fully understand the proper role of opioids in the treatment of injured workers and they do not understand the importance of a biopsychosocial, whole-person approach as promoted in the evidence-based and presumpt...Read More | |||
