Industry Insights
Goldstein: Efforts to Streamline Conditional Payment Recovery Process Continue | 03/06/2019 | ||
By: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced two upcoming webinars aimed at addressing payment functionalities within both the Medicare Secondary Payment Recovery Portal (MSPRP) and Commercial Repayment Center Portal. ...Read More | |||
Gelman: Watered-Down Supplemental Benefits Bill Heads to Governor | 03/05/2019 | ||
By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
A watered-down version of the original New Jersey supplemental workers’ compensation benefits bill has been approved by the Legislature. It now heads to Gov. Phil Murphy for review. ...Read More | |||
Grinberg: WCAB Rejects Efforts to Block Subpoena of Applicant's Employment Records | 03/04/2019 | ||
By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
Are you seeing more cases where applicants' attorneys start fighting subpoenas for prior records? ...Read More | |||
Grinberg: No 'Special Risk/Mission' Exception for MVA After Second Shift at Work | 02/21/2019 | ||
By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
If you ask an applicants' attorney about the “going and coming rule,” nine out of 10 will tell you, “Oh yeah, it means you’re going to find this claim compensable, and I’m coming for your money.” ...Read More | |||
Goldstein: Proposals Will Likely Increase Medicare Advantage Plan Enrollment | 02/12/2019 | ||
Source: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released Part II of a set of proposals that CMS indicates “will take significant steps in continuing the agency’s efforts to maximize competition among Medicare Advantage Plans (MAP) and Part D plans.” ...Read More | |||
Gorman: Let's Cap the Well | 02/04/2019 | ||
By: Patrick C. Gorman | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
We have been seeing a cottage industry in the area of non-independent bill review medical-legal disputes over the past three years. ...Read More | |||
Grinberg: Injured Worker Can Use Phone to Record QME Exam | 01/30/2019 | ||
Source: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
So many of our litigated workers’ compensation cases turn on the medical-legal exam. Everyone knows that every single chiropractic qualified medical evaluators will find every injury results in 100% disability that is industrially caused, while every spine and orth...Read More | |||
Grinberg: Absent Evidence of Causation, At-Work Collapse Not AOE/COE | 01/18/2019 | ||
By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
Pop quiz: A worker collapses on the job and ultimately expires. No witnesses appear with an explanation of what happened — no trauma, no blows, no anything. He just collapses and dies. ...Read More | |||
Grinberg: WCAB Rejects 'Every Specific Injury Is a Violent Act' Theory | 01/10/2019 | ||
Source: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
I have repeatedly expressed my frustration with the interpretation of Labor Code Section 4660.1(c)(1) and the “violent act” definition. ...Read More | |||
Gelman: Labor Department, OSHA Form Alliance to Better Protect Workers | 01/02/2019 | ||
Source: Jon L. Gelman | |||
State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL), the New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee (NJSISC) and the U.S Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed an agreement establishing an alliance to foster safer and mo...Read More | |||