Industry Insights
| The Work Is Equal, Shouldn't the Pay Be Equal? | 05/13/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Senate Bills 491, 492, and 493 (Hernandez) would allow registered nurses with advanced training, optometrists, and pharmacists to practice medical care without the pesky obligation of going to medical school, doing internships, or submitting to residency programs under the supervision of ...Read More | |||
| The Failure to Prosecute Conundrum | 04/24/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| There has been clarity recently in the attorney fee litigation process. The 1st District Court of Appeal held that when an attorney fee issue remains pending in a case, the petition for benefits that initiated that claim will likewise remain open. ...Read More | |||
| The Workers' Compensation System and its Impact on Injured Workers | 03/29/2013 | ||
| By: Jeffrey Blackwell | |||
| State: AL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Each year, our workers' compensation system in Alabama faces new threats from the insurance industry. In some states, like Texas, the system has been dramatically altered, leaving many injured workers unable to recover and return to gainful employment. In Alabama, injured workers with a partial ...Read More | |||
| The Labor Code Section 4601(i) 'Problem' | 02/19/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Another issue raised by SB 863 is whether Labor Code §4061(i) will limit the ability of parties to expeditiously resolve cases when there is no report from a PTP and the applicant has not been examined by an agreed medical evaluator or qualified medical evaluator. Labor Code §4061(i) state...Read More | |||
| Toilet Paper, Plumbers and the Death Penalty: Hyperbole Not Helping | 02/15/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Wcc | |||
| California’s Senate Bill 863 created a new process for dispute resolution in connection with the utilization review process. After the standard UR process has run its course and an adverse determination has been rendered, an injured worker can request an Independent Medical Review. The IMR is ...Read More | |||
| The Dark Knight Rises | 02/01/2013 | ||
| By: Red Hollingsworth | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Are you the Dark Knight rising in your company fighting the good fight? There are numerous obstacles that can arise during the work comp claim process. If not handled with finesse from the beginning, a feeling of enmity may ensue. Now you are up against [Bain], or the dreaded attorney.Th...Read More | |||
| The Insurance Dept.'s Confusing and Unprecedented Memo | 01/08/2013 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| You have to love this nutty state. A source sent us a Dec. 20, 2012, edict issued by Andrew Boron, director of the Illinois Department of Insurance. It appears to indicate you can’t conduct utilization review or run a third party administrator or third-party administrator outside our state bou...Read More | |||
| The Brady Bunch | 12/20/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California's Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation met on Dec. 14 in Oakland.New CHSWC appointee Martin Brady was elected CHSWC chair for 2013.Brady has served as executive director of Schools Insurance Authority since 1988, so to say he knows his ...Read More | |||
| The Fla. Medical Assn.'s New Tagline: Profits Before Patients | 12/19/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mike Whiteley of WorkCompCentral reported on Monday morning that the Florida Medical Association has decided that their doctors’ profits are far more important than patient safety.Sure, they’re hiding behind grand words such as “patient choice” and “return t...Read More | |||
| Tennessee and Opioids: Fumble at the Goal Line | 11/20/2012 | ||
| State: TN | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I was as excited as anyone this past summer when Tennessee’s Legislature passed Senate Bill 3315. SB 3315 amends the definition of utilization review to explicitly include Schedule II, III and IV drugs being used for pain management.Specifically, the bill states “it is the in...Read More | |||
