Industry Insights
| Reviewing Section 4658 | 02/10/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno Correction In last month's edition, the effective date for the new return to work small employer reimbursement regulations (Sections 10004, 10005) was inadvertently shown as 8/1/06. The correct date is 8/18/06. PD-RTW Adjustments (L.C. Secti...Read More | |||
| Rating for Ankle Motion Impairment | 01/27/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Christopher R. Brigham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Christopher Brigham This week's tip is courtesy of Ken Subin, MD, MPH who joined our staff on a full-time basis this month. (Dr. Subin is a highly qualified occupational medicine physician who has a superb understanding of the AMA Guides.) The evaluation for ankle motion...Read More | |||
| Rating Patellofemoral Arthritis | 01/27/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Christopher R. Brigham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Christopher Brigham Question: My patient has patellofemoral knee pain but the joint interval on X-ray looks normal. Does the patient have a ratable impairment? Answer: Possibly. Although Table 17-31 on page 544 of the Guides in...Read More | |||
| Rating Spinal Degenerative Disease | 01/13/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Christopher R. Brigham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Christopher Brigham We want to discuss the problems we are seeing with rating spinal degenerative disk disease. A frequent problem we are seeing is using the Range of Motion Method for rating spinal degenerative disk disease. Question: In r...Read More | |||
| Reduced Employer Costs: Reason to Cheer, be Wary | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Don Brunell The announcement that workers' compensation and unemployment insurance rates will be lower this year is good news for Washington employers, workers and their families. Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that the Department of Labor and Industries will reduce rates by ...Read More | |||
| Rating Sleeping Disturbances | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By Christopher Brigham I'm glad you are reading this because we want the AMA Guides to be applied in an appropriate manner to assure accurate, unbiased ratings. We are seeing serious problems with ratings, are you? I want to discuss the problems we are seeing with rating sleep...Read More | |||
| REPS Helps Agencies Identify Risks | 12/02/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Benny Vanden Avond Do you remember "The Jetsons?" They lived in a utopian world of elaborate robotic contraptions, moving sidewalks, and flying space cars. Father George Jetson was the digital index operator at "Spacely Space Sprockets." His co-worker, the talking computer Referential ...Read More | |||
| Ranking the Cost of Comp | 11/18/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Peter Rousmaniere Sometimes we want to know how a state is doing relative to others with regard to the cost of workers insurance, the efficiency of the insurance system and the adequacy of benefits. Each year, Actuarial & Technical Solutions, Inc. publishes a ranking of the cos...Read More | |||
| Rusin's Review of Good, Bad and Ugly Court Decisions | 11/04/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael E. Rusin Before the Supreme Court of Illinois Claim for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Held to be Timely Even Though Petitioner Knew of Condition and Did Not File a Claim Within Three Years, Deana Durand v. Industrial Commission and RLI Insurance Company, Docke...Read More | |||
| Reforming the Texas Workers' Compensation System: One Year Later | 10/07/2006 | ||
| By: Steve Nichols (News Contributor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Steven W. Nichols In 2005, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 7, reform legislation that brought about what its author -- Rep. Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton, -- called radical change to the Texas workers' compensation system. The last time reform legislation was passed ...Read More | |||
