Industry Insights
| Medical Marijuana and Ariz. Workers' Compensation | 04/17/2013 | ||
| By: Rachel Brozina | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Arizona voters passed the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act in November 2010, and since then, the Arizona Department of Health Services has developed a medical marijuana program to administer the certification of qualifying patients and license the dispensaries. The first dispensary was opened in Decemb...Read More | |||
| More on Concussions in Sports | 03/26/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Over the last several months a debate has been raging over proposals to revamp and reduce the eligibility of many professional athletes to file cumulative trauma claims in California.And football in particular has been in the spotlight for several years as high-profile ex-player suicides...Read More | |||
| Miss. Federal Courts Willing to Make MSA Determinations | 03/15/2013 | ||
| By: Jennifer Jordan | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| You may recall that a federal court in Florida recently denied a party’s motion to allow the court to determine the need for and amount of a liability Medicare set-aside in the Early v. Carnival Cruise case, stating that it is not the court's place to write in terms of an agreement nor iss...Read More | |||
| March 2013 Case Law Update | 03/08/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The following is a summary of important updates to California workers' compensation law.INJURYIn Mendoza (Villanueva) v. Redwood Empire Sawmill, 2012 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 649, the WCAB found a sudden and extraordinary employment event for the purposes of LC 32...Read More | |||
| More on Independent Medical Review Pay | 02/25/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In two recent posts I've examined the issue of what doctors will be paid to do independent medical reviews (IMRs) under the new system that has gone into effect for post-1/1/13 cases.Greg Jones of WorkCompCentral.com has been covering this issue. In a piece posted Feb. 13 on the webs...Read More | |||
| Medicare, MSAs, the SMART Act and your Taxes | 02/11/2013 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I’ve long avoided getting into the Medicare Set-Aside issue for a bunch of reasons: it’s highly esoteric, requires deep knowledge, is ever-changing, can get pretty nasty and getting educated about MSAs would come with a high opportunity cost – I wouldn’t be able to do any rea...Read More | |||
| Medical Association Blatantly Distorts DWC Report | 01/15/2013 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Warning, this post contains adult language.Not content with reaching into employers’ pockets and taxpayers’ bank accounts, the physician dispensing industry’s slimy tentacles are oozing into the world of what passes for journalism at the Sunshine State News, and, based ...Read More | |||
| Managing the Sexual Assault Case | 12/26/2012 | ||
| By: Martin Klug | |||
| State: MO | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals recently increased benefits nearly $60,000 to a 27-year-old woman who states a co-worker raped her at work. T.H. v. Sonic Drive In of High Ridge, 2012 Mo App Lexis 1585 (December 18, 2012); 2012 Mo WCLR Lexis 102. The court of appeals awarded benefits ...Read More | |||
| Mental Illness in the Cockpit, Revisited | 11/16/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The last time we encountered Clayton Osbon, he was strapped to a gurney after being forcibly removed from an airplane. Osbon was a Jet Blue pilot who had a psychotic break during a flight from New York to Las Vegas back in March. He randomly flipped switches in the cockpit, turned off the radio and ...Read More | |||
| More Employers Turning to Surveillance to Combat WC Fraud | 11/05/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| If an employee suffers a serious work-related injury here in California, they can turn to their employer's workers' compensation insurer for the financial assistance they will need as they recover. Unfortunately, employee fraud is still relatively common, in that some employees will fake or ...Read More | |||
