Industry Insights
| Insurer's Attorney Acts as Claims Investigator | 03/10/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Geneva Mtge. Corp. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, 2006 NY Slip Op 52576(U) (Supreme Court, Nassau County) (Bucaria, J.) Plaintiff Geneva Mortgage Corp. (hereinafter referred to as "PMCC"), moved for an order pursuant to CPLR 3124 compelling de...Read More | |||
| Impairment Evaluation Tip: Radiculopathy | 02/24/2007 | ||
| By: Dr. Christopher R. Brigham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Christopher Brigham This impairment tip is courtesy of Kenneth Subin, MD, MPH, CIME, one of our senior physician reviewers. The preferred methodology in the AMA Guides 5th ed. for rating impairment of the spine is the Diagnosis-Related Estimate (DRE). Table 15-3...Read More | |||
| Insurance Reform Success Story | 01/29/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Stephen D'Amato Here's a story for anyone interested in health care reform: A gubernatorial candidate travels around Massachusetts and hears complaint after complaint from employers about the spiraling cost of insuring their employees. Annual double-digit rate increases have become...Read More | |||
| Injured Workers Dealt a Blow by the Ohio Supreme Court | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Carol Cogitating Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) has a little pamphlet on its website that tells us that if we are injured on the job, we have a right to workers' compensation benefits. Ohio workers' compensation is an insurance policy that allows workers to receive prompt ...Read More | |||
| Is Fashion Modeling a Workplace Hazard? | 10/21/2006 | ||
| By: Jordan Barab | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jordan Barab A favorite saying of one of my many girl children is "you can't be too thin and you can't be too rich." (We're pretty sure she doesn't really belong to us. She was probably a princess who was switched in the hospital, taken from her real aristocratic parents by an evil wit...Read More | |||
| Injured Immigrant Workers Denied Workers' Compensation | 09/23/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Lynch Ryan It's one of our nation's dirty little secrets: immigrant workers are doing some of the nation's most dangerous jobs, are being injured and dying disproportionately in those jobs, and denied benefits when injuries and deaths occur. In a political climate where the rhetoric an...Read More | |||
| Illegal Immigrants Frequently Denied Compensation | 09/23/2006 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Peter Rousmaniere A very well documented story was run on 9/15, by Liz Chandler of McClatchy Newspapers about problems with access to workers comp protections for immigrant workers -- in particular illegal worker...Read More | |||
| Injured Veterans Returning from War Present Unique Challenges for Insurers | 07/29/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D., CPCU, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist Insurance Information Institute By the time "major operations" are complete in Afghanistan and Iraq, more than two million United States military personnel will have been deployed in those theaters, many more...Read More | |||
| Is Sierra Pacific Correct? Opinion on Flawed Rationale | 07/15/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The following was adapted from a post in the California Work Comp Professional Forums and provides an alternative view point to the recently issued case of Sierra Pacific v. WCAB; Placerville Chiropractic and Sports Clinic (Corey Chatham); (2006)(writ granted) 71 CCC ____, Third Appellate Dis...Read More | |||
| Immediate Medical Care - SB 899 Two Years Later - Part 2 | 07/01/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The following is an excerpt from the recently published treatise on the two-year anniversary of SB 899 by attorney Michael Sullivan. The full document can be downloaded here. Section 5402 of the Labor Code ...Read More | |||
