Industry Insights
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Kirsch: Iowa Legislature Responds to Call for Reform of Workers' Compensation Act | 09/15/2017 | |
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| By: Ashton T. Kirsch | |||
| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa legislature has finally acted on the call by Iowa business groups to overhaul the state's workers’ compensation system. For years, they have claimed that the state’s system has tilted unfairly toward injured workers and significantly raised employers’ costs. Ma...Read More | |||
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Keefe: My Illinois Workers' Comp Arbitrator Wish List | 09/13/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Illinois government is closing in on a financial turning point. The way things have been done in the past may not get our nutty state government to the future. I truly feel we have to start doing things better and more effectively if we are to have any hope or expectations at all. ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Could MLB's Approach to Saving Arms Cut Workplace Injuries? | 07/18/2017 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Teams are strategically using an offseason change to Major League Baseball’s disabled list rules to prevent more significant injuries among pitchers. This has implications that the world of workers’ compensation could learn from. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Ready for Even Higher Taxes Next Year and for Years to Come? | 07/11/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Last week, the Illinois General Assembly, led by House Speaker Michael Madigan, raised our state income tax to 4.95% to raise about $5 billion in new money from you, me and business. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Gov't Will Continue to Financially Struggle for Decades to Come | 07/06/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Watching the mess that has gone on and continues in Springfield, one has to wonder if there is any chance it is ever going to calm down and fly along traditional lines of state government. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Can the General Assembly Reach a Capitol Compromise? | 06/20/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We are advised that several folks in Spring-Nuts, I mean Springfield, came to the realization that our state government’s lack of a budget for the last several years was causing irrevocable financial damage with threats to continued government viability. If the dysfunction continued, one co...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Math on Wage Loss Differential Forever Changed | 06/13/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You can’t ignore the ever-rising Cook County minimum wage ramp when calculating wage loss differential claims in Illinois workers' compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Could This Be the Dumbest Reform in History of Work Comp? | 05/31/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| My amazing brother Joe has been in comedy for decades. Whenever it comes to politicians, he always recommends you vote for the funny ones. When politics eventually get boring, and they always do, Joe points out that you can always laugh at the funny politicians. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: WC Reform Proposals to Get Our Claims Industry Out of Legislative Cross-Hairs | 05/24/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We find it a bit puzzling that workers’ compensation reform continues to be such a focus of concern to the extent it is seen as a sticking point for our state’s budget. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: A New and Blurring Part of WC Reforms | 05/18/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Chicago Democrat presented new Illinois workers' compensation reform legislation incorporating a “resource-based relative value scale,” or RBRVS, as the physician-health care payment system and a cost savings mega-plum for state employers and local governments....Read More | |||
