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Workers' Compensation News
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Snyder: New Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers | 09/06/2018 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 191 | 0 | |||
| The California Supreme Court has approved new rules of professional conduct for attorneys licensed in California, which go into effect Nov...Read More | |||
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Smith: Do You Belong to the Coalition FOR Insurance Fraud? | 05/14/2018 | |
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| Source: Matthew J. Smith | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 204 | 0 | |||
| The headline is hardly a typo, nor does it refer to the honest organization called the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Stephens: A Curious Pursuit of Obscure Knowledge | 02/28/2018 | |
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| Source: John Stephens | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 346 | 0 | |||
| Now that the Philadelphia Eagles have won their first Super Bowl title, only one team with an all-time winning record has never won the Big Game. Coincidentally, that team is the Minnesota Vikings, in whose stadium Super Bowl LII was played Feb. 4. These factoids are just a small sampling of the ...Read More | |||
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Sams: MEMIC on Top, According to Some Group Few Have Heard Of | 01/25/2018 | |
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| By: Jim Sams | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 984 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 283 min read | |||
| I didn’t learn until this week that the MEMIC Group is the nation’s “top” workers’ compensation insurer. ...Read More | |||
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Scarpa: IMR Remains Untouched by Attacks on Constitutionality | 09/26/2017 | |
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| By: Lisa Scarpa | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1016 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As if the ushering in of independent medical review under SB 863 had not raised enough questions and litigation, still more concerns regarding independent medical review were highlighted in the case of ...Read More | |||
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Sams: Familiar Pattern Emerging in Fraud/CT Claim Connection | 07/10/2017 | |
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| By: Jim Sams | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1569 | 0 | |||
| It took California policymakers more than a decade to crack down on spinal fusion surgeries, which makes me think that WorkCompCentral is going to be writing about post-termination cumulative trauma claims for a very long time. ...Read More | |||
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Sams: Inaction by Lawmakers Not Always a Partisan Divide | 06/26/2017 | |
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| By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1476 | 0 | |||
| Single-party rule clearly is no guarantee that government will find solutions to the problems at hand. ...Read More | |||
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Sams: Clickbait News Is Still News | 06/12/2017 | |
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| By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1390 | 0 | |||
| Joe Paduda asserted a familiar theme in his ManagedCareMatters blog last week; that is, ...Read More | |||
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Sams: Formularies Grow in Popularity, but Which One to Use? | 05/22/2017 | |
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| By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1291 | 0 | |||
| A familiar labor vs. management battleground has sprung around the latest cost-control trend in workers’ comp: drug formularies. ...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Decision Does Significant Damage to Work Comp Subrogation | 05/09/2017 | ||
| By: Gary Wickert | |||
| State: NV | Segment: Top | 1519 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In Nevada, when a workers’ compensation carrier is subrogated to the rights of the worker under § 616C.215(5), the carrier has a lien on the “total proceeds” of any third-party recovery. ...Read More | |||
