Industry Insights
| How to Return to Work After 1/1/04 | 11/07/2004 | ||
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| This article is primarily geared toward injured workers in California with dates of injury January 1, 2004 and after. It will also offer some information to those injured workers with dates of injury before January 1, 2004. The intent of the article is to provide basic information concerning the new...Read More | |||
| How Do I Get Onto a Medical Provider Network? | 05/08/2004 | ||
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| The following question and answer series appeared recently in the Medical section of the WorkCompCentral Professional Forums - a physician fairly new to the workers' compensation system wants to become a part of a medical provider network. The answers are interesting and relevant to practitioners of...Read More | |||
| How to Find a Work Comp Attorney For Your Claim | 03/28/2004 | ||
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| After the difficult decision is made to get an attorney to assist with your workers' compensation claim, the next most difficult decision is who to hire. Just how does someone shop for an attorney to represent them in a workers' compensation proceeding? One way, in California, is to check w...Read More | |||
| HIPAA and Work Comp, Physicians Beware | 09/14/2003 | ||
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| Specifically excluded from the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is information required for the processing of workers' compensation claims, so long as the state in question has laws in place permitting the disclosure of such information.Many state...Read More | |||
| How to Reduce Costs with a Return to Work Program | 09/14/2003 | ||
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| This is the first in a two-part series reviewing the elements for implementing a successful return to work (RTW) program.The 2002 Workers' Compensation Reform Act AB 749 mandated that beginning 7-2004 that the Administrative Director will establish a Return to Work Program in order to...Read More | |||
| How to Value Your Work Comp Case - Part 2 | 03/15/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The first part of this article series dealt with some basic work comp case valuation issues, such as some of the concepts behind workers' compensation, temporary disability and other b...Read More | |||
| How to Value Your Work Comp Case - Part 1 | 03/03/2003 | ||
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| What's my case worth? When all is said and done, the bottom line for most people is the answer to this question - the system is, after all, "workers' compensation. Unfortunately, this question is much easier to ask than it is to answer, as there are many issues that have a bearing on a case v...Read More | |||
| HIPAA, Work Comp & Common Sense | 02/15/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, became law, most of the public and professional attention was centered on the act's privacy provisions, perhaps because of the serious consequences for violation of those rules (penalties of up to 10 years in prison and $250,000...Read More | |||
| Hearing Loss is a Safety and Work Comp Issue | 11/24/2002 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Occupational hearing loss is becoming more of a problem for both employees and employers according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). About 30,000,000 United States workers are exposed to potentially damaging noise on the job and another 9,000,000 are at risk for ...Read More | |||
| How to Give Deposition Testimony - Part 2 | 11/09/2002 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Our first articlereviewed the basics of giving deposition testimony. Now we'll review some of the basic rules to keep in mind that will ensure your presentation in a deposition is the ...Read More | |||
