Industry Insights
| Clean-up Legislation vs. More Workers' Comp Reform | 01/17/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| AB 227 and SB 228 were only the beginning of the Legislature's efforts at reform. Spurred by "holes" in these statutes as written, not to mention pressure from the new governor, the Legislature commenced a Special Session on November 18th where the State's budget problems and workers' compensation ...Read More | |||
| Causation and Diagnosis of Sick Building Syndrome - 2 | 12/06/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is the second of a two part series of articles on sick building syndrome by Donald Lee, D.O., a specialist on environmental and occupational medicine. With an increase in mold related workers' compensation claims, essentially a form of sick building syndrome, a review of the history, causation ...Read More | |||
| Causation and Diagnosis of Sick Building Syndrome - 2 | 12/06/2003 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is the second of a two part series of articles on sick building syndrome by Donald Lee, D.O., a specialist on environmental and occupational medicine. With an increase in mold related workers' compensation claims, essentially a form of sick building syndrome, a review of the history, causation ...Read More | |||
| Causation and Diagnosis of Sick Building Syndrome | 11/22/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is a two part article on Sick Building Syndrome by Donald Lee, D.O., a specialist on environmental and occupational medicine. With an increase in mold related workers' compensation claims, essentially a form of sick building syndrome, a review of the history, causation and diagnosis of the synd...Read More | |||
| Controlling Comp Costs, A Broker Perspective - Part 2 | 11/22/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The first in this series of articles providing tips and advice to employers from the insurance brokerage perspective - the level of interaction that is most frequent and common to the...Read More | |||
| Causation and Diagnosis of Sick Building Syndrome | 11/22/2003 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is a two part article on Sick Building Syndrome by Donald Lee, D.O., a specialist on environmental and occupational medicine. With an increase in mold related workers' compensation claims, essentially a form of sick building syndrome, a review of the history, causation and diagnosis of the synd...Read More | |||
| California Physicians: Adjusting to AMA Guidelines | 11/08/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The "Garamendi Plan", second phase, envisions a restructuring of the permanent disability rating system, and it is highly anticipated that a new permanent disability rating system will adopt the widely used (in 40 states) American Medical Association's Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment...Read More | |||
| Controlling Comp Costs, A Broker Perspective - Part 1 | 11/08/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is the first of a series of articles providing tips and advice to employers from the insurance brokerage perspective - the level of interaction that is most frequent and common to the employer experience with workers' compensation. The right broker can have a significant impact on the cost of y...Read More | |||
| Common Adjusting Mistakes, Part 5: Earnings | 10/25/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This is the final article in this series of common adjusting mistakes, this time on failure to present evidence of earnings when presenting a settlement with an in pro per applicant for approval. We have reviewed ...Read More | |||
| Calculating SAWW in Life Pension/100% Awards | 10/11/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| While most of the 2002 amendments to the California Labor Code that peg indemnity to the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) don't go into effect until 2006, Labor Code section 4659 contains a little notic...Read More | |||
