Industry Insights
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Grinberg: Death Benefits Not Barred by SOL; Stips Don't Resolve 'Date of Injury' | 07/26/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Are you feeling a little too cheerful? Do you need something to bring your happiness down a notch or two? How about the grim and dark subject of death to keep those joyful inclinations in check? ...Read More | |||
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George and Walls: Social Determinants of Workforce Health | 07/19/2019 | |
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| By: Kimberly George and Mark Walls | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Getting the best outcomes for injured workers involves much more than just treating the actual injury. Their recoveries depend on a variety of additional factors such as whether they have access to healthy food and clean water, their ability to travel to medical appointments and the extent o...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Legislature Proposes Psyche Presumption for LEOs, Firefighters | 07/18/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You know what California really needs? We need a strong lobby group that will protect our most precious and marginalized citizens — a lobby group to look after the interests of those who are rarely thanked, often forgotten and frequently subject to abuse. ...Read More | |||
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Goldstein: CMS Issues Proposal to Cover Acupuncture | 07/17/2019 | |
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| By: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed decision to cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP) who are enrolled participants either in clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or in...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Once Claim Accepted, Worker Must Transfer Care to MPN | 07/15/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Often enough, we have an applicant attorney fighting tooth and nail, proverbially speaking, to keep out of a defendant’s medical provider network. ...Read More | |||
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Gelman: The Dangers of Heat Illness | 07/09/2019 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As temperatures rise in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reminds employers to protect their employees from the dangers of working in hot weather. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: City of Los Angeles Moves to Limit Port Automation | 07/08/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Come on, let’s get real. For at least 85% of you, today is Monday because who in their right mind would come in on Friday, July 5, right? So, you did the sane thing and took a four-day weekend. What better way to celebrate Independence Day than to exercise a bit of freedom an...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: WCAB Rules on Catastrophic Injuries | 07/02/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As you will recall, toward the end of 2012, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 863, which, among other things limited increases in permanent disability as a result of compensable consequence psyche cases. ...Read More | |||
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Gelman: AI and Workers' Compensation: Who's Watching the Machine? | 07/01/2019 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Artificial intelligence is the new challenging frontier in the administration of workers’ compensation benefits. While there are cost savings benefits that will be achieved through deep learning and machine intervention, there are also serious ethical concerns coming to the forefront as thi...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Leased Employment Has Consequences | 05/14/2019 | |
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| Source: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| An employee leased to another company (ER) — a placement agency (PA) — does not have the rights and benefits available to a regular employee. A recent case illustrates how the leased employee is prohibited...Read More | |||
