Industry Insights
| Grinberg: COA: Keeping Identity of IMR Reviewers Secret Is Constitutional | 02/06/2018 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Are you ready for a post on independent medical review? This is a good one, because the Court of Appeal has, once again, upheld the IMR process as constitutional. Not only that, the case of ...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Governor Signs Executive Order Mandating Review of Medical Marijuana Policy | 02/02/2018 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order on Jan. 25 directing the New Jersey Department of Health and the Board of Medical Examiners to review the state’s medical marijuana program. The goal of the re...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Unpaid Volunteer Firefighter not Entitled to Temporary Benefits | 12/15/2017 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The New Jersey Appellate Division held, in an unreported opinion, that an unpaid and unemployed volunteered firefighter was not entitled to temporary workers’ compensat...Read More | |||
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Gorman: Non-IBR Medical-Legal Disputes Increasing Litigation | 12/14/2017 | |
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| By: Patrick C. Gorman | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You receive an odd-looking petition, titled “Petition for Determination of Non-IBR Medical Legal Dispute,” from the friendly neighborhood workers’ compensation chiropractor, on a case you settled in 2014. ...Read More | |||
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Gold: Reducing WC Admin Costs, TCOR and One-Day Settlements | 11/29/2017 | |
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| By: Paul Gold | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| We have a problem in the workers' compensation industry. It’s an expensive, inefficient and time-consuming problem. This problem involves an archaic process that nobody likes, but to which everyone continues to subscribe. ...Read More | |||
| Grinberg: Knowledge of WC Rights Precludes Need for Claim Form | 11/27/2017 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Here's an interesting, if unpublished, decision. Remember, folks: If you cite an unpublished decision in California you will be thrown in a gulag and will get no potatoes this winter. The matter is that of Bolanos v. WCAB and Jimenez. Bolanos was a buildi...Read More | |||
| Grinberg: Fraud Conviction Does Not Bar WC Benefits | 11/16/2017 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You know, there is this wonderful movie that is not very well known. It’s called "Johnny Dangerously," and therein lies a wonderful quote by the titular character: “Remember, kid, crime doesn’t pay … well, [as Dangerously climbs into his ill-gotten limousin...Read More | |||
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Gelman: DOL Says Workplace Injuries Continue Downward Trend | 11/13/2017 | |
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| By: Jon. L. Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Department of Labor said Thursday that were approximately 2.9 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported by private industry employers in 2016, which occurred at a rate of 2.9 cases per 100 fu...Read More | |||
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Goldstein: Study Provides Concrete Evidence of Over-Inclusion of Opioids in WCMSAs | 11/08/2017 | |
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| By: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) released a study documenting opioid use in Workers’ Compensation Medical Set-Asides (WCMSAs). ...Read More | |||
| Grinberg: DWC (Maybe) Gives Lien Claimants Extra Time to File Declarations | 10/24/2017 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| So, awhile back, your humble blogger offered the thought that the Division of Workers' Compensation's intent to dismiss the liens of claimants who had not properly filed their “Supplemental Lien Form and 4903.05(c) Declarations” by the statutory deadline ...Read More | |||
