Industry Insights
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Ferguson: OSHA Under President Trump: Early Signs | 01/26/2017 | |
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| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
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| We’re still awaiting an appointment to the Department of Labor under the Trump administration, so we don’t expect an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) director to be named until after that. ...Read More | |||
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Ferguson: Reading the Tea Leaves: The Trump Administration and OSHA | 12/01/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Employers are in a state of limbo between one presidential administration and another, trying to intuit the potential impact as potential names of candidates for the cabinet and key administrative posts are floated, debated and named. Much is still in the realm of speculation. ...Read More | |||
| Farber: SPARC Act Does Not Make Medicare Responsible for Prescription Drugs | 11/17/2016 | ||
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| Many employers have been interested in recent federal legislation proposing to reform the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) laws surrounding the Medicare Prescription Drug program, known as “Part D,” and for good reason. The current law is ambiguous at best, and many do not...Read More | |||
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Fletcher: Another Look at Physician Dispensing | 10/26/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Editor's note: Physician dispensing for workers’ compensation patients has received close scrutiny in the past several years. This past week, Dr. David Fletcher spoke at the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce 9th annual Workers’ Compensation Symposium at the Lis...Read More | |||
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Ferguson: OSHA's New Reporting Rule Raising Hackles | 06/06/2016 | |
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| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
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| OSHA recently released a final rule on injury reporting and electronic record keeping that is raising hackles in many quarters. If you aren’t aware of the rule, this post will get you up to speed and will present an overview of the controversy. ...Read More | |||
| Fifty States, Fifty Different Laws: A Peter Rousmaniere Analysis | 02/04/2016 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
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| According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index calculator, what you bought for $100 in 1973 would today cost $533.82. Despite this, during that same period wage growth for the median hourly worker ...Read More | |||
| February 2016 Case Law Update | 02/03/2016 | ||
| By: Michael W. Sullivan | |||
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| JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATION In King v. Comppartners, Inc. (2016) E063527, the 4th District Court of Appeal held that an injured worker could assert a civil tort claim against a utilization review (UR) doctor for failing to warn him about the potential consequences associated with the abr...Read More | |||
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Finishing Home Health Care Regs | 12/23/2015 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
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| As we approach the year’s end, I’ll soon be publishing my annual list of the Top 10 Developments in California workers’ comp. ...Read More | |||
| Florida Case Law Update | 11/20/2015 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Hawkins v. Publix Super Markets, 1D14-5420, (11/12/2015): Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal reversed a judge's order suspending a worker's temporary partial disability benefits, saying the judge hadn't made sufficient findings to support the conclusion that the...Read More | |||
| Fee Schedule Puts Strong Limits on When Records May Be Ordered | 11/03/2015 | ||
| By: Stephen Schneider | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The rules about when and how to order records from a copy service as a medical-legal expense changed dramatically on July 1, 2015, through enactment of the copy service fee schedule regulations. Applicant attorneys who ignore these changes and continue to order records from copy services ...Read More | |||
