Industry Insights
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Uribarri: In COVID Claims, Follow the Symptoms | 08/23/2023 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| PQME evaluations in workers’ compensation cases can be tricky. With limited time, and sometimes limited records, a PQME must interview an applicant, make an evaluation and issue an opinion on a wide range of topics outlined by lawyers in very long joint letters. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: WCAB Tackles NFL Claims | 05/01/2023 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| After a brief timeout, out-of-state NFL teams have returned to defending injury claims at the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: End of an Era: Rescission of COVID Emergency Impacts Rules and Regs | 03/06/2023 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Tuesday marked the end of the COVID-19 state of emergency in California, as the executive order of March 4, 2020, has now been officially rescinded. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: DWC Issues New QME Regs | 02/24/2023 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued revised PQME regulations that permanently incorporate some of the pandemic-era rules allowing for remote evaluations and longer scheduling time frames. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: Causation of Injury | 01/26/2023 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Causation of injury, while not the most exciting challenge in the California workers’ compensation system, is an all too important threshold question that often relies on a doctor’s opinion on the cause of injury. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: AB 5 Still Creating Headaches for Trucking Industry | 01/10/2023 | |
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| By: Jemma S. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| While California has a long history of extending new rights to employees, not all legislation has the overall intended effect. The passage of Assembly Bill 5 in 2019 is a prime example. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri and Uribarri: WCAB Provides Guidance on COVID-19 Presumption | 09/29/2022 | |
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| By: Jemma S. Uribarri and Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board panel decision stating that the “executive order” presumption did not apply to a probation officer’s alleged COVID-19 infection is worth taking note of, according to one of the leading legal research services in the Californi...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: What's Left After Total Knee Replacement? QME Clarifies: Almost Everything | 11/01/2019 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Have you ever considered just what the phrase “total knee replacement” means? It seems so self-explanatory that any answer must be, “Well, it means the whole knee has been replaced.” ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: Settlement Alternatives for Claims Involving Medicare Beneficiaries | 03/21/2019 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| What are your options when an Medicare set-aside has derailed your settlement discussions or complicated resolution of a claim with a Medicare beneficiary? ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: Apportionment in Our Post-SB 899 World | 01/22/2019 | |
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| Source: Jemma S. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Apportionment was revamped with the enactment of SB 899 in 2004. It had long been the case that employers were liable for exacerbations or aggravations of underlying conditions without any benefit of apportionment to the pre-existing condition. ...Read More | |||
