Industry Insights
| How to Know What's Really Happening in Work Comp | 10/23/2013 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Want to know what’s really happening in comp? Spend a day sitting next to an adjuster.Whether you’re a work comp exec, big employer, investor or service provider, there’s no faster or better way to really understand what goes on, what works and what doesn’t, and w...Read More | |||
| How Do You Litigate? | 04/05/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| According to Merriam-Webster online, the phrase “carpet bomb” was first coined in 1944. Their definition is:1: to drop large numbers of bombs so as to cause uniform devastation over (a given area).2: to bombard repeatedly, widely, or excessively (carpet bomb the country...Read More | |||
| Hawaii: The Worst State? | 03/25/2013 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: HI | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Analysis of data from 1,500 drug toxicology tests performed by Millennium Labs (consulting client) indicates things are pretty bad in Hawaii.Here are some of the “highlights”: Less than 21% of tests were “in full agreement with reported medication...Read More | |||
| Hey Buddy, Can You Spare $1 Million? | 03/13/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Florida Bar News recently featured an article, “Mandatory e-filing in civil cases begins in April.” This article also described how the e-filing Authority Board has “asked the Legislature for $1.1 million to fund a help desk to assist lawyers with e-filing.” Perhaps I am ...Read More | |||
| Home away from Home now Equals Big Bucks in Ill. Workers' Comp | 12/13/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| We sadly announce another unprecedented, gut-wrenching and controversial appellate ruling for Illinois business and the whole defense industry. A problem with the wild expansion of the “traveling employee” concept is we don’t see any true “cure.” We also assure everyone...Read More | |||
| How to Measure what Might Have Been | 10/25/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The most difficult cost savings measurement is calculating the savings gained from what did not happen. Call it cost-avoidance measurement. Some say it cannot be done because if it has not happened, it certainly cannot be measured.However, another point of view says that if placed in the...Read More | |||
| How Many TPAs Have Undisclosed Fee-Sharing Agreements? | 09/19/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Third-party administrators and some insurers may be quietly generating revenue through undisclosed “side agreements” that drive up public and private employers' workers' compensation costs, a report by the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller cautioned recently. These side ...Read More | |||
| Hold Off on Appeal Until All Issues Resolved | 08/29/2012 | ||
| By: Joseph R. Needham | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is a straight-forward holding on a relatively simple issue: Orders remanding cases to an Arbitrator for furtherfactual findings relative to vocational rehabilitation efforts and awards are not final orders, and are not appealable. Period. Stopasking; because the Court cl...Read More | |||
| How a New York Bill Could Increase Workers' Comp Costs | 06/26/2012 | ||
| By: Peter J. Levin | |||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| My first contribution to this site was on pharmaceutical economics in the country of Greece. This time, I’m writing about something closer to home – a workers’ compensation prescription drug bill from the State Senator from Greece, New York.State Senator Joe Robach (R) ...Read More | |||
| Hartwig's Take: The Economy and P&C Insurance | 05/17/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| We're drinking from the firehose that is Bob Hartwig's annual discussion of economic factors affecting the property and casualty industry.His presentation was as usual high energy and entertaining. Example - noting that a Greek default would have little impact on the rest of th...Read More | |||
