Industry Insights
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Tola: Navigating Interpreter Liens for Medical Treatment | 11/02/2023 | |
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| By: Maya M. Tola | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Interpreters play a prominent role in the multilingual realm of the California workers’ compensation system, and determining the rate of compensation for interpreting services remains a highly litigated issue. ...Read More | |||
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Tappin: COVID-19 in the Workplace: Updates on Legislation | 02/28/2023 | |
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| By: Crystal Tappin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As COVID-19 continues to linger in California, it remains an ongoing concern for state lawmakers. In response to this threat, California continues to provide updated regulations as it pertains to COVID in the workplace. This article will cover the recent updates adopted by the state. ...Read More | |||
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Tonn: Has "Evidence-Based Medicine" Become a Joke? | 09/13/2022 | |
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| By: Dr. Melissa D. Tonn | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In the late 1990s, evidence-based medicine was deemed innovative and the “be-all-do-all” for delivering care to injured workers. The EBM mantra advanced in the 21st century packaged in ever-evolving, proprietary treatment guidelines marketed as the key to reducing costs and improving ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Rand Report on Comp and COVID Is Highly Recommended | 02/07/2022 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Rand Corp. last month published an educational white paper on COVID and workers' compensation that is educational in the extreme for the workers' compensatio...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Court Upholds Award to Worker Who Sustained Flu Shot Injury | 01/04/2022 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania (an intermediate appellate court) held on Dec. 23 that the workers' compensation judge, in his grant of an original claim for a flu-shot-induced “transverse cervical myelitis,” did not rely on the purportedly incompetent opinion of ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: 50th Anniversary of National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws | 11/16/2021 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The year 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 publication of the Report of the National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws. ...Read More | |||
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Tipps: Bureau Adopts New Telehealth Rules, Physician Choice Form | 11/05/2021 | |
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| By: Dale Tipps | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Telehealth has officially arrived with the adoption of new Telehealth for Workers’ Compensation rules. ...Read More | |||
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Tolbert: Most Physicians Fail to Fully Explain Kite | 09/17/2021 | |
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| By: Kenneth Tolbert | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Since the 2013 decision in Athens Administrators v. WCAB (Kite), doctors have found ways of increasing total permanent disability by adding disabilities rather than using the Combined Values Chart (CVC). ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: COVID Adjudications, Compensability of Infectious Diseases Explained | 09/01/2021 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act features no statutory presumption of causation for COVID-19. Yet, infectious diseases, including COVID, were, and are, as a matter of legal causation, compensable under the law. ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Article Focuses on Injuries to Hospital Volunteers | 08/26/2021 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a new, practical, article — falling into the category of risk management counseling — the authors identify and explain the federal statutory and regulatory authorities that govern hospital planning for emergency conditions, with a focus on the thorny issue of how such ins...Read More | |||
