Industry Insights
| Texas Case Proves Employee Leasing too Good to be True | 07/12/2012 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mom used to say that if something seems too good to be true, then it is.Unfortunately this happened to a Texas employer with tragic consequences.In July 1999 Jackson Brothers Hot Oil Service entered into a contract with Business Staffing, Inc. (BSI) for a variety of administr...Read More | |||
| Texas, Bad Faith and Attorney Communications | 07/06/2012 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Texas has been generating a lot of workers' compensation bad faith law lately.A couple of weeks ago the state's Supreme Court essentially put the lid on bad faith arising out of workers' compensation claims with its Ruttiger opinion.Now the same court ruled that t...Read More | |||
| The (Second to) Last Word on the AIG Bailout | 06/21/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| We taxpayers agreed to pony up $182.5 billion to bail out American International Group after the credit derivative debacle (well, mostly we taxpayers). There were two criticisms of the deal; first that the government should allow the market to determine winners and losers, and second that we'd l...Read More | |||
| Too Much Sitting Comorbidities = Big Trouble | 05/25/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| For those who seek risk conundrums, workers' comp is fertile ground. From a micro perspective, the unfortunate Ronald Westerman, a paramedic for a California ambulance company, embodies many of the elements that result in sleepless nights for claims adjusters and actuaries: Westerman had an inor...Read More | |||
| The Erosion of Workers' Comp Reimbursement and Patient Choice | 05/22/2012 | ||
| By: Franklin J. Rooks Jr. | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| IntroductionUndoubtedly, physicians have heard the grumblings of their patients. Health insurance premiums continue to rise, and patients are exposed to higher financial burdens. First, they bear an increased expense in contributing to the portion of the premium not pa...Read More | |||
| Taxpayers May Lose Twice when 2 State Employees Go for a Joyride | 04/26/2012 | ||
| By: Ellen Keefe-Garner | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| For a while there was a large billboard on Interstate 80 near the Indiana-Illinois border that stated something like, “Ill-Annoyed About Taxes.” The billboard contained one of the many writings in Illinois to speak loudly about how this state is unable to pay its bills and obligations. I...Read More | |||
| The Drug Testing Controversy | 04/13/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| If patients are prescribed opioids, 'best practices' calls for: Assessment of risk for dependency and addiction; Completion of an opioid agreement; Ongoing assessment of pain and functionality, and Random urine drug testing (UDT).This last has become...Read More | |||
| Texas DWC Misses the Mark | 04/03/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Texas will be publishing 'report cards' for physicians treating workers comp patients, but won't include opioid prescribing patterns as a criterion. That's unfortunate at best.According to a piece by Bill Kidd in WorkCompCentral, the DWC not the group tasked with develo...Read More | |||
| The Fight About MPNs isn't about Treatment | 03/09/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| I learned very early on in my workers' compensation legal career that medical control was control over the entire case.My mentor, the legendary Rene Thomas Folse, PhD, JD, and probably the smartest man I have ever known, emphasized this lesson to me many times very early on as I was ...Read More | |||
| The Gathering Storm in Calif. Workers' Compensation | 02/27/2012 | ||
| By: Thomas E. Rowe | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Since March 28, 1948, when U.S. Air Force forecasters Ernest C. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller issued the first tornado forecasts from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, our ability to predict severe storms has increased exponentially. Our ability to predict storms in the workers’ compensation s...Read More | |||
