Industry Insights
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Morrisroe: Kite Fighting in California Courts | 06/14/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Kite fighting, practiced primarily in the East and Brazil, involves attempting to cut your opponent’s line, or ground their kite, to achieve victory and win their paper aircraft. A different kind of kite fighting is taking place in California workers’ compensation evaluations: doctor ...Read More | |||
| More: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish | 03/18/2016 | ||
| By: Keith P. More | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Could there be any bigger waste of money in the work comp system than the utilization review of a medication in gel form that costs an average of $55? That is exactly what happened when a 54-year-old injured worker diagnosed with a spinal cord injury, neurogenic bowel and bladder and left arm pai...Read More | |||
| Medical Staff Votes Against Mandatory MOC | 01/22/2016 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Board certification: Should the general public have an interest in this arcane subject? In the opinion of this writer, the answer is yes. The extravagant remuneration of American Board of Medical Specialty (ABMS) CEOs and presidents has been disclosed to be as high as $1.3 million...Read More | |||
| Ms. Lucky and Ms. Unlucky | 01/04/2016 | ||
| Source: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Most injured workers recover from injury, but some do not. The failures are more interesting. But it is hard to find a useful analysis of why recovery fails. Anecdotes don’t help. As the saying goes, the plural of anecdotes is not data. I was lucky to find an analysis of ...Read More | |||
| Misclassification and Regulation, Will Government be Nimble? | 12/01/2015 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced that it will scramble to enact registration regulations for remote control aircraft, called "drones." It hopes to have these in place before the 2015 holiday season. ...Read More | |||
| More Smoke | 11/30/2015 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The drumbeat for medical marijuana in workers’ compensation systems continues. Earlier this week I attended a lunchtime talk by a Bay Area physician which included his comments on the potential benefits of medical marijuana in treating certain patients. Legal issues surround...Read More | |||
| Med-Legal Launches Proven Compliance | 06/24/2015 | ||
| By: Med-Legal | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| About Proven Compliance To address the changing dynamics in California Workers’ Compensation resulting from S.B. 863 and the release of the Copy Service Fee Schedule on July 1, 2015; Med-Legal is expanding its already proven capabilities by introduc...Read More | |||
| Medical Costs, Fee Schedules, diparate Reimbursement and Medical Tourism | 06/17/2015 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In February, NewsOK reported on the disparity between various charges for medical services in New Hampshire. It reports that an injection for a work injury could cost $763, while t...Read More | |||
| Mobile Technology Coming right now!!? | 05/11/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| This week’s Annual Issues Symposium put on by the National Council on Compensation Insurance in Orlando will feature a talk on May 14 by Salim Ismail, a Silicon Valley notable. NCCI promises he will address a “series of accelerating technologies, like artificial intelligence, robotics...Read More | |||
| May 2015 Case Law Update | 05/05/2015 | ||
| By: Michael Sullivan | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In Byars v. New York Jets, 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 125, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board held that California did not have jurisdiction over a professional football player's cumulative trauma claim when he played nine games in California out of approximately 250 games over ...Read More | |||
