Industry Insights
| A Clinical Overview of Pseudobulbar Affect: Part I of II | 02/06/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. H. Richard Adams | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This week we begin a 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 neurological...Read More | |||
| A Tale of 2 States: Idaho and Florida | 01/25/2013 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| On Jan. 23 came the welcome news that the good – and smart – folk in positions of authority in Idaho have drafted work comp regulations designed to prevent outrageous up-charging for physician-dispensed repackaged drugs. Approved by both legislative houses, the rules will shortly go into...Read More | |||
| An Old Man Takes his Lump(s) | 01/22/2013 | ||
| State: MS | Segment: | 0 | |||
| We have often discussed the disconnect between the roughly 100-year-old workers' comp system and the realities of today's workforce. The old system was not designed to handle older Normal 0 ...Read More | |||
| Annals of Aging: Return to Work at 80? | 12/31/2012 | ||
| State: OH | Segment: | 0 | |||
| As the New Year looms, the 100-year-old workers' compensation system continues its awkward foray into the 21st century, and it encounters problems beyond its original design: the widespread availability of opioids, increasing sophistication in medical interventions and an aging workforce. Today ...Read More | |||
| A Common Sense Fix to the Texas URL Problem | 12/14/2012 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Because workers' compensation is a state-by-state phenomenon, every jurisdiction has its own little quirky laws that originate to deal with re...Read More | |||
| Aging Workers, Limited English, Limited Skills | 11/28/2012 | ||
| State: IA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| When a laborer with limited English is disabled from physical work, is he obligated to increase his employability by learning English? This interesting question emerged in the case of Enrique Gutierrez, a 48-year-old welder who worked at Merivic, a company specializing in grain-related processing. G...Read More | |||
| A Modest Proposal for New York | 11/08/2012 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| New York's workers' compensation system has taken a few high hard ones to the head lately. Premiums are now the fifth highest in the nation (according to the well-respected "2012 Oregon Workers' Compensation Premium Rate Ranking"); its surcharges are the highest in the nation; the Spitze...Read More | |||
| A Difficult Lesson in Sustantial Evidence | 10/11/2012 | ||
| State: LA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Substantial that's the evidentiary standard that governs the vast majority of workers' compensation litigation.The standard of substantial evidence means that the evidence upon which the trier of fact relies can reasonably support the proposition for which it is raise...Read More | |||
| AB 369 (Huffman) Vetoed | 10/05/2012 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Assemblyman Jared Huffman found out too late that his vote in favor of SB 863 helped seal the doom of his own bill, AB 369, which was intended to put an end to the merciless use of "step therapy," the method favored by insurance companies to restrict access of patients to medications prescribe...Read More | |||
| Annals of Compensability: Heart Attacks at Work | 10/04/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Over eight years ago, my colleague Julie Ferguson blogged on the issue of workplace heart attacks: compensable or not? (Workers Comp Insider just passed its ninth birthday, but we've been too busy to celebrate.) Heart attacks present a unique challenge to the courts overseeing workers' comp....Read More | |||
