Industry Insights
| WCAB To Reconsider Almaraz/Guzman | 05/01/2009 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| By Howard J. StevensOn Monday April 6, the WCAB, in a very unusual move, granted State Fund's Petition for Reconsideration After Reconsideration and agreed to reconsider its controversial decision in the Almaraz and Guzman cases. Petitions for Reconsideration After Reconsideration ar...Read More | |||
| Wise on Work Comp - More Bills, the Better | 04/29/2009 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| "It's all a fee-based business, so actually [in] the workers' comp business, the more bills there are, the more claims there are, the better that we do." &nb...Read More | |||
| Welcome to the Jungle: DWC-Appointed Designated Doctors | 04/24/2009 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe R. Anderson and Mark H. SicklesThe Texas Labor Code grants the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers Compensation (DWC) authority to appoint a designated doctor (DD) to help resolve compensability disputes. The Labor Code and DWC rules further outline the weight of the...Read More | |||
| We Are In Good Hands with State Regulators | 04/22/2009 | ||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Editors' note: The following is a letter by the Illinois Director of Insurance to the New York Times Contributing to the current economic volatility have been ideologically driven initiatives not premised on fact or consumer protection. Financial institutions pushed...Read More | |||
| WCAB Grants Reconsideration in Almaraz/Guzman and Ogilvie | 04/09/2009 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Julius YoungThe WCAB has granted reconsideration in the Almaraz, Guzman and Ogilvie cases (see a link below post to this week's en banc decisions).In doing so, the WCAB has adopted a briefing schedule for the parties in each case to submit additional arguments....Read More | |||
| WCAB En Banc: AMA Guides are Rebuttable | 02/21/2009 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michel LeClercOn Feb. 3, 2009, the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, sitting en banc, ruled that the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides can be rebutted by other evidence of disability when the AMA impairment rating is inequitable, disproportionate, and not a f...Read More | |||
| What I Learned at AADEP | 01/17/2009 | ||
| State: Natl. | Segment: | 0 | |||
| by David J. DePaoloI attended the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians' 22nd annual conference in Indian Wells, Calif., Jan. 9-10. The weather in the Palm Springs area was sunny and warm, ...Read More | |||
| What is Up in Work Comp? | 09/15/2008 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaAfter spending the last part of last week and the better part of this one preparing for two major presentations on "US health care 2009" (both requiring predictions about health reform efforts and results thereof) I've been anxious to get back to the comparatively sedate...Read More | |||
| Workers Comp -- The Hospital Profit Engine | 07/11/2008 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaWorkers' comp medical expenses account for less one-fiftieth of total U.S health care costs - $30 billion out of $2 trillion.Yet workers' comp generates almost one-sixth of hospital profits.Here's how the numbers work. About one-third of c...Read More | |||
| What's Coming in Florida | 06/03/2008 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| --By Joe PadudaI'm mystified, perplexed, confused, confounded, and appalled.There's just no other logical reaction to the goings-on in the Sunshine State, where several workers' comp payers are actually supporting a major increase in reimbursement for outpatient f...Read More | |||
