Industry Insights
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Montgomery: An Unfortunate Veto | 09/27/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed California Senate Bill 636, which would have required that utilization review for private employers be conducted only by California-licensed physicians. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: No, Doctors Aren't the Culprits | 09/17/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| It’s time to take a sledgehammer to one of the most pernicious myths about workers’ comp in California. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Claim Contact Deadline Still 24 Hours | 09/13/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| After receiving a first report of injury, how quickly the injured worker receives contact from the claims adjuster remains a critical element. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Multistate Claims Adjusting Is a Balancing Act | 08/28/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Becoming a multistate workers' comp claims adjuster ends up as an eye-opening experience. ...Read More | |||
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Moreno and Fortner: Another One Bites the Dust | 08/26/2024 | |
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| By: Patrick R. Moreno and Rachel Fortner | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| In August 2023, our case brief addressed the panel decision of Marva Smith v. Solar Turbines Inc., involving a vexatious applicant. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: What Happened to Micro-Captive Risk Management? | 08/13/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Micro-captive risk management was one of the hot topics until the 831(b) captives disappeared from the workers' comp insurance scene. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Mandatory E-Billing Approaches | 08/12/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York's Workers’ Compensation Board is asking providers to be proactive and get ahead of a major impending change: Electronic billing will be mandatory by this time next year. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC Defies Law, Botches WCIS | 08/08/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Without reliable data, no government can understand — let alone solve — the problems of any major system. Yet California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has openly defied California legislators and failed to gather vital workers’ comp data, in unabashed viol...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC to Impose Costly New Reporting Burdens on Providers | 07/25/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation is proposing major changes to the forms providers use for injured workers’ progress reports, the doctors’ first report of occupational injury, permanent and stationary reports, and requests for authorization. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Copy and Paste Is Not File Documentation | 07/19/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Workers' comp file documentation became very critical in the post-pandemic area. One area for adjusters that seems to have become almost the norm is copy and pasting the same info from note to note. ...Read More | |||
