Industry Insights
| To Intervene or Not Intervene? That is the Question | 07/28/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Workers' compensation carriers across the country continue to wrestle with the seemingly simple decision as to whether they should protect their subrogation interests by intervening into California third-party actions or simply file a Notice of Lien, and hope some of the third-party funds will find ...Read More | |||
| The Changing Face of Disability Management | 07/14/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Pamela Caggianelli and Renee Mattaliano Siloed no more, the new thinking requires a multidisciplinary approach and pays attention to the employee, not how a case is handled. At H.E. Butt Grocery Co., which operates more than 300 retail stores in Texas and Mexico, disabil...Read More | |||
| The Unique Position of Work Comp Insurance in a Post-9/11 World | 06/16/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Wayne E. McOwen Since September 11, 2001, the entire property casualty insurance industry has struggled with how to handle the risk of another catastrophic terrorist attack. Yet within that broader market, the workers' compensation insurance industry has had to struggle with an entirely...Read More | |||
| Temporary Duty Assignments Should Never Last 12 Months | 05/05/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| SJDB-PD-RTW Frequently Asked Questions An insurance company adjuster has advised our training facility that payments for Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit (SJDB) voucher training will be made according to a table they made up based on the "up to" language in Labor Code Sect...Read More | |||
| The Wicked Witch of Insurance Fraud? | 04/07/2007 | ||
| By: Jim Smith | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jim Smith Ladies of a certain age come in all varieties, as do 20-somethings and 30-somethings. The baby boom generation of ladies, like all generations of women and men alike, includes the good, the bad and the ethically challenged. My inclination is to give little old ladies the...Read More | |||
| Tips for Assessing Joint Impairments | 03/10/2007 | ||
| 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. Extremity injuries are among the most common cases we review at Brigham a...Read More | |||
| Tort Reform, Past, Present and Future Found in Workers' Compensation | 03/10/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael Stevens Some of the younger lawyers (and many of the corporate executives, insurance lawyers, and corporate counsel) may have forgotten that once upon a time the workers' compensation program was implemented as a tort reform measure. The basic purpose was to reasonably compensa...Read More | |||
| To Add or to Combine? Rating Impairment of the Hand | 02/24/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Christopher R. Brigham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Christopher Brigham There is often confusion about whether specific impairments are added or combined when assessing hand injuries. Hopefully this week's tip will help clarify the proper procedures and serve as a quick reference in the future. The Guides differentiate b...Read More | |||
| Three En Banc Decisions of WCAB | 01/27/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer The WCAB issued a series on en banc decisions addressing issues that are perceived by the WCAB to be of significant importance to the overall workers' compensation community. Even though these cases are en banc decisions of the WCAB it is highly likely that...Read More | |||
| Top 10 Pa. Workers' Comp Decisions Impacting the Defense Practice | 01/13/2007 | ||
| By: Daniel V. DiLoretto | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Daniel V. DiLoretto 2006 has been marked with many developments, and as the year comes to an end, I would like to summarize 10 decisions that, I believe, had an impact on the defense practice. If I left out your favorite case, I apologize. Supreme Court The...Read More | |||
