Industry Insights
| Wrongful Death, Without Recourse | 04/21/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By John Brummett A 19-year-old Danville man choked to death in 2004 after his shirt got caught in a Deltic Timber wood chipper that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration later determined to have been unsafe. Jeremy Foster's survivors got nothing in workers'...Read More | |||
| WCAB Issues New En Banc Decisions in Pendergrass, Baglione | 04/07/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer The WCAB issued new decisions in the Pendergrass and Baglione cases each of which has reversed the prior en banc decisions of the WCAB that issued in January of this year. Before addressing the merits of defendant's petition for reconsiderati...Read More | |||
| What Coventry is Getting From Concentra | 04/07/2007 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe Paduda The short answer -- elimination of a major network and bill review competitor, acquisition of a PBM and case management operator, and an annual revenue increase for Coventry's specialty division of about $320 million. The annual revenue increase is equivalent to ...Read More | |||
| When Regulators Knock Twice; Fremont's at It Again! | 03/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Even dead cats bounce, as the idiom goes, and the stocks of subprime lenders did just that last week. Fremont General, a financial company with a big subprime unit that it is trying to sell, is up 51 percent since it disclosed that it had received a cease-and-desist ...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp Bill Package Offers Fixes to Broken System | 03/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Edith Prague Every working person in Connecticut -- and everyone concerned with workers' rights -- ought to take exception to The Bulletin's Feb. 18 editorial on proposed adjustments to the state's workers' compensation laws. The editorial demonstrated a complete lack of understanding...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp Reform a Key to Prosperity | 03/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael Campbell South Carolina's workers' compensation system has been deteriorating for years and is now broken. Just 10 years ago, South Carolina boasted some of the lowest premiums in the nation. Unfortunately, fraud, excessive bureaucracy and judicial activism have taken their tol...Read More | |||
| Workers' Compensation Makes Insurance Companies Rich | 03/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By John C. Land III Business, and particularly small business, is paying too much for workers' compensation insurance. The insurance industry would have you believe the reason is that greedy injured workers are receiving too much for lost wages and medical care. The truth is that the insu...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp Reform is Step 1 for N.Y. Toward Economic Peak | 03/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joseph D. Morelle For decades, it's been undeniable that New York's workers' compensation system is among the worst in the nation. Costly to employers, meager in its benefits to injured workers, it has been one of the primary obstacles to new job growth in our state. Last we...Read More | |||
| Work Comp Bill Package Deserves Boot | 02/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| After more than a decade trying to woo businesses back to Connecticut, there are 18 bills in the state legislature that could combine to increase the reality the state is not a friendly place to start, grow or relocate a business. They are part of a workers' compensation package with elements that e...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp Program One of the Worst | 02/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael A. Warner As one of the few attorneys who handle workers' compensation claims in the Amarillo area, I think there is a way for the Amarillo Hospital District to eliminate any "tax" for indigent care: Make insurance companies accountable for what they owe. The state's...Read More | |||
