Industry Insights
| Important Recent Case Law for Texas | 01/17/2014 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
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| Important Recent Case Law for New York | 01/15/2014 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| NEW! Addonisio v. City of New York, 100870/10 11423, (12/31/2013): A New York appellate court partially revived the Labor Law claims of a construct...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for Illinois | 01/14/2014 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| NEW! Village of Villa Park v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, 10-MR-000027, (12/31/2013): The Illinois Appellate Court ruled t...Read More | |||
| IR, UR, We R in Need of Some Answers | 01/13/2014 | ||
| By: Mark E. Webb | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The issues of utilization review (UR) and independent medical review (IMR) have risen to the top of the crisis list of California’s oft-changed and less so often reformed workers’ compensation system. While a concept well engrained in non-occupational health care, UR appears to be the mi...Read More | |||
| Injured Workers Lose Again | 01/10/2014 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Ordinarily, California's injured workers have issues to worry about other than how doctors do their billings. Not so anymore. Here's why: the change over from the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) to the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) has come with severe restrictions against...Read More | |||
| Important Recent California Case Law | 01/09/2014 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| NEW! Cornerstone Development Partners v. Superior Court of Riverside County, et al., E057726, (12/31/13): California's Privette Doctrine barred an injured subcontrac...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for Texas | 12/26/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| NEW! Pena v. County of Starr, 04-12-00462-CV, (12/18/2013)...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for Florida | 12/24/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| NEW! Lopez v. All Star Investigations, 1D13-1108, (12/17/2013): A Florida appellate court is giving a worker a second chance to prove that his workplace fall last spring was compensable and not caused by a preexist...Read More | |||
| Is it Really De Minimus? | 12/23/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| There is a workers’ compensation bill proceeding through Florida's legislative committee process already. It is Senate Bill 444 and there is a similar bill in the House, House Bill 271. There are a variety of provisions in these two bills, many dealing with “stop work” orders a...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for New York | 12/17/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| NEW! Carrion v. City of New York, 2012-01010, (11/27/2013): A worker who fell off of a ladder that had been pla...Read More | |||
