Industry Insights
| Important Case Law for California | 03/22/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Compton v. Superior Court of LA County, B236669, (03/19/2013): Unconscionability is a defense to the enforcement of an entire contract, or particular provisions of a contract, includi...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for New York | 03/20/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Roca v. 66-36 Yellowstone Blvd. Coop., 9547, (03/14/2013): A building management company failed to establish its entitlement to an exclusivity defense as a matter of law to a claim by the building handyman for a fall from a ladde...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for Florida | 03/04/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Steve Beavers v. Carpenter Contractors of America and Alternative Service Concepts, 1D12-0324, (02/26/2013): Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal...Read More | |||
| Is Maximus Paying $100 for Independent Medical Reviews? | 02/08/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California's Independent Medical Review system is starting.Workers with injuries after 1/1/13 will in most cases have to fight treatment denials by asking for Independent Medical Review. After 7/1/13, IMR will apply to pre-1/1/13 injuries.Insurers or self-insured employer...Read More | |||
| Is your Organization on the Telework Train? | 01/31/2013 | ||
| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| With ice encrusting a huge segment of the nation today, it's a good day to think about your organization's stance on telework. Are your employees among the 20-30 million people who work at home one day of the week or more? That's the most recent estimate from the ...Read More | |||
| Is a CMS Counter an Approval? | 01/30/2013 | ||
| By: Jennifer Jordan | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| WorkCompCentral recently reported on a work comp appeal out of Tennessee that brought up the issue of enforcing settlements on the contingency of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approval. In this particular case, Liberty entered into a medical-only settlement for around $80,000 continge...Read More | |||
| It Causes One to Wonder... | 12/18/2012 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A recent Appellate Division 3rd Department case, Miller vs. Joyful Farms, calls into question whether it is possible to establish the degree of trust needed to enact meaningful process reform in New York....Read More | |||
| Iowa Approves 7.9% Rate Increase in a Down Economy | 11/21/2012 | ||
| By: James J. Moore | |||
| State: IA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recommended that Iowa increase its workers' compensation rates by 7.9%. Iowa subsequently approved the rate increase, but staggered the hike to increase rates by 3.9% on Jan. 1 and another 4% on July 1. This was rather surprising in such a do...Read More | |||
| Important Recent California Case Law | 11/13/2012 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Homeport Insurance Services, Inc., v. Lundy, B236276, (11/05/2012): A provision in a settlement agreement for a longshoreman's workers' compensation and personal injury claims ...Read More | |||
| Illegal Alien's Future Wage Loss Based on Lawful Residence | 09/27/2012 | ||
| By: Matthew Ignoffo | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| A federal district court held an undocumented alien can recover damages for future loss of earnings based only on earnings he would be able to legitimately earn in his country of lawful residence. Isn't it time to apply such a common sense rule to Illinois' workers' compensat...Read More | |||
