Industry Insights
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Wilson: Court Declares CMS Practice Unlawful but Withholds Injunction | 05/23/2017 | |
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| By: Rita Wilson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Earlier this year, Tower MSA summarized the California Insurance Guarantee Association’s (CIGA) case challenging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s (CMS) practice of claim...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Roboclaims: When Robots Injure Humans | 04/26/2017 | |
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| By: Gary Wickert | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Around the world, robots are increasingly being used to perform menial and complex labor tasks in the home and in the workplace. Robots are used in restaurant kitchens to make sushi and chop vegetables. They are also important earlier in food production, planting rice and tending growing cro...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court Confirms Compensation Carrier Can Initiate Filing of Third-Party Action | 03/31/2017 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A long-standing controversy has been resolved and a major anti-subrogation obstacle in Pennsylvania has been overcome. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Questionable Court Decision Creates Interesting Subrogation Opportunities | 03/01/2017 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: HI | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| If a contest were held for the worst appellate decision of 2017, we might already have a winner. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court Reminds Us of Need for Subrogation Counsel in Third-Party Actions | 02/13/2017 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: KS | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On Aug. 31, 2013, Dan Heimerman was driving in Kansas while employed by Northern Clearing Inc. and was killed when he was rear-ended by a dump truck driven by Zachary Rose and owned by Payless Concrete. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Idaho Supreme Court Prohibits Negligent Employer and Carrier From Subrogating | 01/25/2017 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: ID | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The last 40 years have been a roulette wheel of changing opinions and positions for the Idaho Supreme Court with regard to the subrogation and reimbursement rights of an employer or its workers’ compensation carrier when there is employer negligence. However, the white ball representing the...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Workers' Compensation Claims by Undocumented Employees | 01/16/2017 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Following an election cycle in which illegal immigration became a touchstone issue, it seems only appropriate that claims handlers and subrogation professionals have a clear understanding of the many nuances involving workers’ compensation claims made by undocumented employees. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: Malpractice Reform Reaches California Supreme Court | 01/04/2017 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The late and illustrious David J. DePaolo was on target in "Out of State UR — I Don't Understand," published Jan 4, 2013, when he wondered why it should make any diffe...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Pennsylvania's Comp Future Credit Applies to Indemnity and Medical Benefits | 12/16/2016 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| What we once commonly knew to be true is, well, still true. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: The R&R Ride for SB 1160 | 12/07/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Now that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Senate Bill 1160 into law, it's time for the bill to enter the "rule-making" phase. That's when legislation either gets its teeth or gets its teeth kicked in. ...Read More | |||
