Industry Insights
| Thousands for Billables, But Not $133.32 in Tribute! | 08/19/2014 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Would you go to trial over $121? The recent writ-denied case of Martinelli v. Monterey County Superior Court seemed to answer the question in the affirmative. Ok, so here’s the deal: applicant court clerk sustained an admitted industrial injury which was resolved by way of C&R i...Read More | |||
| The 10 Commandments of Medical-Legal Psychological Reporting | 08/14/2014 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In the last two months I wrote about the 10 Commandments of Mental Status Examinations and the 10 Commandments of Psychological Testing. The response was so good I thought I would press my luck and write about the 10 Commandments of Medical-Legal Psychological Reporting. As we know, medic...Read More | |||
| The Outsourcing Universe | 07/28/2014 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The workers’ compensation insurer is for many the centerpiece of a mature industry. Injury frequency almost constantly declines. Insurers earn modest but fairly steady returns on equity, with little risk of insolvency. Market shares generally do not change much. Careers are largely very pre...Read More | |||
| Treatment at his own Expense -- Including a past Medical Award? | 07/21/2014 | ||
| By: Gary Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| OK, dear readers, your humble blogger has a crazy question with which to ruin your weekend: what does the wording of “at his or her own expense” mean? As my beloved readers will recall, the Supreme Court interpreted Labor Code Section 4605 to mean that an injured worker can trea...Read More | |||
| The Power of the Workers' Compensation Voucher | 07/03/2014 | ||
| By: Patty Finer | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Voucher is the most valuable, yet most ignored, benefit offered to an injured worker who cannot return to work. Today, this provision has been improved, but it still does not do enough to help the i...Read More | |||
| The Demise of American Medicine: Lawsuits and Federal Legislation | 05/29/2014 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I recently read two news items back to back, one regarding a lawsuit and the other a physician-written editorial in Forbes. My coincidental consumption of these two items left me wondering about the fundamental practice of medicine in the 21st century. Much has been made in the las...Read More | |||
| The Lion Bite Case Sleeps in Nevada | 03/18/2014 | ||
| By: Stephen C. Yohay | |||
| State: NV | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The tragic death of an orca (commonly called killer whales) trainer at Sea World of Florida in 2010 has stimulated much debate on whether direct contact between wild animals and humans should be permitted in entertainment contexts, and whether the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration s...Read More | |||
| The Primary Care Provider, an Indispensable Role | 03/05/2014 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| A recent article highlighted the experience of a Harvard Medical School physician who got a "crash course" in the way American medi...Read More | |||
| The Emerging Opt-out Debate | 02/24/2014 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The workers' compensation system (actually, more than 50 jurisdictional systems) has not changed its core model in a century while surviving several upheavals within living memory. In the 1970s, many states significantly improved their benefit structures and administration in respons...Read More | |||
| The Terminator is Coming: To Make your Burger | 01/27/2014 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Ok, dear readers, prepare for some scary sci-fi. And economics. And paranoia…Anyway, as you may have guessed, your humble blogger derives his living from the swampland we all lovingly refer to as California’s workers’ compensation system. As sad a tru...Read More | |||
