Industry Insights
| What's Replacing AWP? | 02/08/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaAs industry insiders have known for almost a year, Average Wholesale Price as published by First DataBank, is going away. Triggered by a settlement in a lawsuit filed in Boston in 2006, as of March 2011 FDB will no longer publish their version of AWP. (There's a bit of d...Read More | |||
| What the....? Oh, it's Illinois | 02/01/2010 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Eugene KeefeOur Supreme Court issues new unanimous ruling we respectfully feel is a conundrum, wrapped in an enigma, surrounded by a puzzle; we feel there is no question this is a paradoxical decision on a major workers’ compensation issue Illinois employers may be reluctant to ...Read More | |||
| What's New in 2010 | 01/29/2010 | ||
| By: Mullen & Filippi | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Mullen & FilippiJanuary is not only the beginning of the calendar year, but is also when most legislation becomes effective. In this, our first edition of the Bulletin for 2010, we discuss a newly issued interpretation of Labor Code section 4062(b), new statutes and regulatio...Read More | |||
| What Does a Legal Observer Do When He Disagrees with the Courts? | 01/12/2010 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Eugene Keefe One great thing about American jurisprudence, like the football playoffs or most anything that appears in the public eye; you get to disagree. If you think a wide receiver in a football playoff game caught the ball but landed out of bounds and the referee calls it a touch...Read More | |||
| Where Were the Payers in Florida? | 12/14/2009 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaThe ongoing battle over the work comp hospital fee schedule in Florida continues, as challenges have been filed by two hospitals, the Florida Hospital Association, and FairPay Solutions that prevent implementation of a dramatic revision to existing fees pending further actio...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp Today: New Rates, New Reckoning | 12/08/2009 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Rick HodgesThe repressed economy, record unemployment, and a polarizing health-care debate have pushed workers’ compensation insurance off the radar screen in Florida — perhaps too soon. Although the legislative reforms enacted in 2003 brought stability to the state’...Read More | |||
| WCAB Disapproves Brasher Decision for Second Opinions | 11/24/2009 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Get CE credits for reading this column, click here.By Richard M. "Jake" JacobsmeyerThe WCAB has issued an en banc decision which substantially disapproves of and reverses its prior decision ...Read More | |||
| Who is the Crook? | 11/02/2009 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: ND | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe Paduda Few things I've encountered in my 25-plus years in the insurance business are as outrageous as the prosecution of Sandy Blunt, the former head of the North Dakota work comp fund.I've posted on this case several times; what originally caught my attention ...Read More | |||
| Work Comp Grand Slam from Illinois Appellate Court | 10/28/2009 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Eugene KeefeSynopsis: Splat!!!! Work Comp Grand Slam from our Appellate Court, Workers’ Compensation Division for Illinois labor.Editor’s comment: Three major things happened the last two weeks on the Illinois legal/political/jobs scene.First, the s...Read More | |||
| WC in Sunshine State Is Busy As Usual | 09/29/2009 | ||
| By: McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Pope & Weaver | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Pope & WeaverWith the Annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference concluding in August, the Florida workers' compensation industry (including this newsletter) "gets back to business." NCCI has made its annual rate filing f...Read More | |||
