Industry Insights
| Dual-purpose Nursing | 11/01/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| One aspect of doing the blog is that people send me letters and emails.Today I received this unsolicited but noteworthy inquiry from an injured worker (not a client of our firm), which I'll quote in its entirety:"I wanted to send you an email about an issue th...Read More | |||
| Do I Look Stupid to You? Do I? | 10/01/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Tom Rowe, president and chief executive officer of the California State Compensation Insurance Fund, said yesterday that by recommending no change in advisory pure premium rates for 2013, the Governing Committee of the California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) can "seize o...Read More | |||
| Does Chicago have the Worst-Run WC Defense Program of All Time? | 08/02/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In our view, you can’t run a defense program worse than the City of Chicago’s workers' compensation defense program is being run. The only reason it isn’t a headlines-grabbing “scandal” is that so few people truly understand workers’ compensation or its metric...Read More | |||
| Do you Know your MEDS? A Powerful Metric for Opioid Mgt. | 06/27/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| MED stands for morphine equivalent dosage. And you should immediately start using it (if you're not already) to identify and mitigate the potentially harmful effects of chronic opioid use. Different formulations of opioids can be compared to one another (and the real extent of ...Read More | |||
| Dahl Decision Reveals WCAB Interpretation of Ogilvie | 06/05/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| After the California 1st District Court of Appeals holding in Ogilvie, many of us have been waiting to see what the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board would do.How would the WCAB interpret the 1st DCA's Ogilvie decision?In its decision the Court of Appeals rejected t...Read More | |||
| Do ASC Owners Do More Surgery? | 05/21/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Do ambulatory surgery center owners do more surgery? If so, is that bad?What are the implications for workers' comp?On an anecdotal level, I recently had minor hand surgery at an ASC. The facility was incredibly efficient, with far less bureaucracy than I had experienced ...Read More | |||
| Daddy, Can we Reform Workers' Comp in Illinois? | 05/11/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office lays out a seminal report with crucial recommendations for her father, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan for needed workers' compensation reform. Some of these recommendations will affect current handling of claims for Illinois state workers and ...Read More | |||
| Drug and Alcohol Intoxication Not Always a Losing Case | 05/02/2012 | ||
| State: NV | Segment: | 0 | |||
| A blog post by Thomas A. Robinson for Lexis Nexis ...Read More | |||
| Denial of Workers' Comp Claim May Form the Basis of a RICO Claim | 04/25/2012 | ||
| By: Robert Meyers | |||
| State: MI | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Executive Summary: The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a group of transportation workers have a property right in their entitlement to workers' compensation benefits under Michigan law, and that the denial of their workers' compensation claims may form the basis for RICO clai...Read More | |||
| Determining Medicare Status | 02/06/2012 | ||
| By: Mark Popolizio | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Determining a claimant’s Medicare status is an integral part in evaluating one’s compliance obligations under the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute (MSP). When a claimant is identified as a Medicare beneficiary, several MSP compliance considerations come into play: Medicare, Medicaid, and...Read More | |||
