Industry Insights
| Employment Law Muddle | 06/24/2013 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| We saw two very different outcomes in two very similar actions across our state in the past couple of weeks. The legal battlefield and potential costs have to make Illinois risk, safety and human resources folks bewildered. In Holland v. Schwan’s Home Service, No. 5-11-0560, i...Read More | |||
| Efficient and Effective Drug Dispensing to Injured Workers | 01/24/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. Rafael Miguel | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Editor's note: This column is published in rebuttal to Joe Paduda's column, "The Fla. Medical Assn.'s New Tagline: Profits Before Patients," which ran in WorkComp...Read More | |||
| Essentials of a High Quality Psychological or Psychiatric Report | 01/16/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. Bruce Leckart | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| For some time now I have been writing newsletters about flaws that can be found in psychological and psychiatric reports that have been written in the context of workers’ compensation and personal injury litigations. Now I think it’s about time to write something about what should be in ...Read More | |||
| Employers in Illinois Have a Lot to be Thankful for | 11/30/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| As of Nov. 20, Illinois employers won’t have to pay outrageously inflated prices for drugs dispensed to their injured employers. Until the Legislature approved regulations capping drug prices for repackaged drugs, employers’ workers' comp drug costs had been increasing at an astoundi...Read More | |||
| E\Cs Must Prove a Pre-existing Condition to Assert Idopathic Defense | 08/14/2012 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Nothing is as frustrating to an employer/carrier as when an employee suffers an accident and cannot explain how the accident took place. This occurs often in slip and falls where the employee readily admits she does not know (or sometimes remember) how she fell. She was walking down and a hallway at...Read More | |||
| Employment General Releases are Interconnected to WC Claims | 06/01/2012 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Over the last three to five years there has been a movement by carriers to disassociate themselves from preparing employer general releases when completing a settlement with a claimant. This is motivated by fear as there was significant litigation by sue-happy claimant’s alleging collusion bet...Read More | |||
| ERISA Option Movement Underlies Broader Discontent | 04/05/2012 | ||
| State: OK | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Oklahomas experiment with an ERISA option to workers compensation moves forward remarkably fast, with a hearing on Tuesday before the state House Judiciary Committee.Two bills, House Bill 2155 and Senate Bill 1378, began as identical measures but the Senate bill was amended...Read More | |||
| Eye Opening | 04/03/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Eye opening and transformative.Thats how Angie Wei of the California Labor Federation described her visit to some hearings at the San Francisco and Oakland Workers Compensation Appeals Board.Wei was among the speakers at a legislative hearing this week on the fu...Read More | |||
| Ex-spouse, Medicare Rules and CMS Sting Illinois Man Twice | 03/15/2012 | ||
| By: Shawn R. Biery | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| For all of the consternation with regard to protecting future medical interests when dealing with a potential for Medicare payments in the future, one Illinois court decided a Medicare set-aside trust is a marital asset and subject to division in the divorce proceeding. One concern is what might hap...Read More | |||
| Employer May Suspend Benefits for Failure to Complete DWC-19 | 12/29/2011 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Previously, I wrote about how an employer/carrier must present evidence that a claimant failed to complete an earnings report (DWC-19 form) in order to suspend temporary partial benefits. In the Rucker v. Just Brakes case, the E/C failed to assert this as an affirmative defense and therefore the jud...Read More | |||
