Industry Insights
| Supreme Court Reaffirms Arbitrator's Autonomy | 12/28/2012 | ||
| By: Joseph C. Nuzzo Jr. | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed a long-standing rule that an arbitrator must decide the validity of the terms contained in any employment contract or agreement containing a valid arbitration clause....Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Upholds Denial of TTC Benefits to Retired Employee | 12/04/2012 | ||
| By: Lisa G. Whittaker | |||
| State: OH | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court issued a decision in State ex rel. Rouan v. Indus. Comm. in October making it clear that employees who retire, and thereby remove themselves from the workforce, for reasons unrelated to their workers' compensation claims are ineligible to receive Temporary Total Compensati...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Saves Patient's Life | 12/03/2012 | ||
| State: PA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Pennsylvania Supreme Court saved a patient's life last week. Interestingly, the court accomplished this great feat by doing nothing. Linda Turner was injured on the job in December of 1987. She underwent two surgical procedures and was diagnosed, over a number of years, with arac...Read More | |||
| SB 863 Enacts Independent Medical Review System | 10/29/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Signed by the governor on Sept. 18, Senate Bill 863 brought in a host of changes that affect the business and litigation processes in the world of workers’ compensation. These changes were designed to address a host of problems that have been brewing since the passage and implementation of Sen...Read More | |||
| Sugar: Bad for Consumers, Deadly for Workers? | 10/18/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| It would be pretty hard to avoid the news about sugar: it's bad for us. Diets high in sugar contribute mightily to the nation's burgeoning problems of obesity and diabetes and may even be a factor in dementia. But sugar in its crop form is also proving to be deadly. The cause and effect, how...Read More | |||
| Show Me the Money: In Re Marriage of Christopher Washkowiak | 10/12/2012 | ||
| By: Aaron Frederickson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Over the years, Medicare Secondary Payer compliance professionals have worked hard to insure that funds placed into a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) are fully funded and properly administered either professionally or by the individual claimant. However, issues of divorce and child support enforcement matt...Read More | |||
| Second-Injury Fund Cases Highlight a Crisis | 10/09/2012 | ||
| State: MO | Segment: | 0 | |||
| An interesting little legal issue is brewing in Missouri with an outsized impact on the state's Second Injury Fund's solvency, again drawing into question the current day relevanc...Read More | |||
| SB 863: Credits and Kudos | 09/24/2012 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Senate Bill 863 provided one of the most drama-laden lobbying and advocacy campaigns in years and ended in a personal victory for Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Because of intense work chiefly by the California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery (CSIMS), the bill was nearly defeated.On th...Read More | |||
| ScripNet's Been Sold: Yet another Deal in Workers' Comp | 09/10/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| Healthcare Solutions announced yesterday that it will acquire work comp pharmacy benefit manager ScripNet, a transaction that will add significant share to HCS' Cypress Care PBM business. ScripNet is particularly strong in the 'Central Southwest' market, with substantial share in the gov...Read More | |||
| September Case Law Update | 09/07/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The following is a summary of important updates to California workers' compensation law.JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATIONIn Collins v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (2012) 77 CCC 622, the California 4th District Court of Appeal held that when a plaintiff is found to be a special ...Read More | |||
