Industry Insights
| LOOK INTO MY KNEES... | 06/17/2006 | ||
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| By Jomar Almeda, MD (Faculty, WorkCompSchool) "You know you're getting older when your knees buckle, but your belt won't". - unknown author The capability to look into the knees is considered one of the major advances in the field of orthopaedic surgery. Arthroscopic surgery w...Read More | |||
| Lundy vs. Four Season - The Other Side of Fees | 02/25/2006 | ||
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| The upcoming case of Lundy vs. Four Seasons in Tallahassee is interesting. It is about the way claimant attorneys are allowed to be paid. This appellate case is probably the first test of the effects of SB50 regarding the outrageously low limits set on workers comp claimant attorney fees. It ...Read More | |||
| Labor Code 4903.1 and the Service of Lien Claims | 01/14/2006 | ||
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| The following set of questions and answers recently appeared in our California Professional Forums. The editors felt this discussion was instructive and informative regarding WCAB procedure. The post has been edit...Read More | |||
| Legal Odds and Ends | 12/17/2005 | ||
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| by "Jake" Jacobsmeyer Once a month or so I receive a message from Lexis advising me that they have posted new decisions to the California Compensation Cases. Many of the reported cases are ones that have already been the subject of my commentary during the preceding mon...Read More | |||
| Landmark Alert - Case Law on Fraud | 10/22/2005 | ||
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| Landmark Alert - Case Law: Village of North Palm Beach and the Fraud Defense; a definitive new 1st DCA fraud ruling further clarifying, simplifying and toughening the "fraud" defense. Village of North Palm Beach and Employers Mutual, Inc. v. McKale, FLW D2365b, (Fla. 1st DCA 10/06/05). W...Read More | |||
| Law Firms, Investigators and 1st or 2nd Departments | 09/11/2005 | ||
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| Kroll Associates Inc. v. Sands Brothers & Co. Ltd., NYLJ 8/25/05 (Supreme Court, New York County) (LEHNER, j) What is the liability of a law firm for outside investigative services rendered in connection with litigation being handled by it? Currently the law guiding courts on this ...Read More | |||
| Large Work Comp Conference and Dinosaurs - Opinion | 09/11/2005 | ||
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| Well it's that time of year again when the large workers' compensation conferences are coming up and I have to decide how I want to spend my marketing dollars. I am not sure I want to continue to participate as a vendor in these conferences; the return on investment simply isn't there. Even some of ...Read More | |||
| Legal Odds and Ends to Workers' Comp | 08/13/2005 | ||
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| Occasionally there is information that I think would be interesting and informative to recipients of my periodic missives but not sufficiently interesting or expansive enough to warrant a complete message. I am going to save up a number of those items and send out a periodic update on such multiple...Read More | |||
| Late or Missing Notices; Panel QME Issues | 06/18/2005 | ||
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| A recent post in the Professional WorkCompForums, Claims Adjusters topic, reviewed a likely common problem due to the time constraints concerning Qualified Medical Examinations, and medical-legal dispute resolution. The following is an edited version of that discussion:Q: I am work...Read More | |||
| Low Back Pain: A Common Sense Approach #2 | 02/26/2005 | ||
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| This is the second and concluding article on the evaluation of soft tissue injuries and low back pain in particular. It deals with a new technique in the evaluation of these costly and omnipresent complaints. For many years medical practitioners of all types were devoid of a complete tool...Read More | |||
