Industry Insights
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Langham: Inflation and Legislative Budgeting | 06/09/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The 2017 Florida legislative session ended in May. It was an eventful 60 days this year, with significant discussion of workers' compensation litigation, filing and attorney fees. ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Eight Steps to Controlling Workers' Compensation Costs: Conclusion | 06/06/2017 | ||
| Source: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This is part 3 in a three-part series. Part 1 was published Friday. ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Eight Essential Steps to Controlling Workers' Compensation Costs: Steps 3 Through 5 | 06/05/2017 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Friday, we began our Eight Essential Steps series with steps 1 and 2, making a commitment and focusing on lost time. Today, we’ll tackle steps 3 through 5. Step 3: Develop an injury action plan Many employers think that when an injury occ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Eight Essential Steps to Controlling Workers' Compensation Costs | 06/02/2017 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Many U.S. companies have recognized two basic truths about workers’ compensation: The workplace is the best place to control loss costs and they, as employers, more than any other group are best positioned to reduce and control loss costs. These employers do not hand the proble...Read More | |||
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Langham: My Workers' Comp Accident | 05/30/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This story starts late in the afternoon in southern Michigan, a million years ago. ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: The ICE Man Cometh | 05/26/2017 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| This will be hard. For a moment, squeeze yourself into the tight shoes of one of America’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants. Eight million of you are...Read More | |||
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LeFevre: ODG, NGC and the Formulary Debate | 05/16/2017 | |
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| By: Phil LeFevre | |||
| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Opioids are synthetic heroin. HEROIN. Phi...Read More | |||
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Luna: Why Details Matter in the Formulary Debate | 05/15/2017 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Generalities plague the workers’ compensation industry, from indirectly typecasting opioid-using patients as drug addicts to characterizing physicians as narrow-minded, profit-driven narcissists, and former state officials suggesting a single binary drug list can have similar cost-savi...Read More | |||
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Langham: 1st DCA Reverses Florida Rate Case | 05/12/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Last fall, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved a workers' compensation insurance rate increase. A lawsuit invalidated that increase, but an appeal was filed. Part of that appeal was a "stay" entered by the appellate court (something courts can do as part of their inh...Read More | |||
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Langham: An Old War Story About Divorce and Workers' Comp | 04/27/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Remembering a case from years ago, I was representing a very large insurance company. It hired me to draft settlement paperwork regarding a fatality. The injured worker was undoubtedly killed on the job. No one had seen him fall, but several had been on hand when he landed. ...Read More | |||
