Industry Insights
| AB 1309: An Unwarranted WC Ins. Exemption for a Special Interest | 04/12/2013 | ||
| By: Brad Chalk | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Assembly Bill 1309 by Henry Perea, D-Fresno, shifts National Football League owners’ injury costs to taxpayers, aiding billionaires in avoiding responsibility for players’ injuries, including dementia, Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease.Workers’ compensati...Read More | |||
| A 21st Century National Compensation Committee? | 04/10/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| I recently attended a program at which Professor John Burton spoke regarding his service on the 1972 National Commission on Workers' Compensation. He recounted how that commission met 11 times, over 32 days. The end result was the formulation of 19 essential recommendations. He noted that these ...Read More | |||
| A Clear Message to Lien Claimants | 04/08/2013 | ||
| By: Reid L. Steinfeld and Richard Boggan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Medical providers, lien collection companies and lien claimants won’t last long if they don’t adapt to the statutory, regulatory and legal environment in California’s workers’ compensation system.The passage of SB 863 and regulations promulgated by the Division of...Read More | |||
| Annals of Compensability: (Lack of) Education Pays | 04/04/2013 | ||
| State: MO | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Imagine identical injuries to two workers: one is a junior college graduate, the other lacks a high school diploma; one can read and compute fairly well, the other reads at the 8th grade level and performs math at the 6th grade level. The injury involves failed back syndrome, with the injured worker...Read More | |||
| April 2013 Case Law Update | 04/03/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The following is a summary of important updates to California workers' compensation law.JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATIONIn Guzman v. Angelus Block Co., Inc., 2013 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 2, per LC 3856(b), the WCAB held that it had jurisdiction to make a determination on a...Read More | |||
| A Tale of 2 Blisters | 03/21/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Back in November we blogged the story of John Pearson, a diabetic whose tight workboots Normal 0 ...Read More | |||
| Addiction, Patient Rights and Lawsuits | 03/20/2013 | ||
| State: NV | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The text of Nevada Senate Bill 75, authored by State Senator Tick Segerblom, is simple. Here it is in it's entirety:1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, a person who suffers injuries as a result of an addiction to a prescription drug may bring and maintain an action for damages a...Read More | |||
| A Worker's 1st Day at Work shouldn't Be his Last Day on Earth | 02/20/2013 | ||
| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Temporary worker Lawrence Daquan Davis was 21 years old just a few months over the legal drinking age in Florida when he began working at the Bacardi Rum bottling plant in Jacksonville. Sadly, he had a very short career. It began on Aug. 16, 2012, and ended shortly before 5 p.m. on the same day af...Read More | |||
| Appellate Case of the Quarter: Adventist Health v. WCAB (Fletcher) | 02/13/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| When an applicant entitled to future medical care under California Worker’s Compensation laws moves out of state, provision of treatment often poses a problem. Finding physicians who will treat such applicants can be especially difficult. In these circumstances, often applicants begin to self-...Read More | |||
| A Clinical Overview of Pseudobulbar Affect: Part II of II | 02/07/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. H. Richard Adams | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Today we conclude our two-part series about a distressing complication that may arise following a traumatic brain injury—pseudobulbar affect (PBA). Due to minimal awareness and knowledge of PBA in the medical community, PBA is often misdiagnosed as depression or part of the primary neurologica...Read More | |||
