Industry Insights
| Mileage Under Illinois Workers' Compensation Act and Rules | 06/20/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Do Illinois employers owe mileage to medical care or light work under our law?We keep getting asked over and over and here are some thoughts on this legal subject. It is our reasoned legal opinion, Illinois employers do not owe mileage expense incurred by injured workers for non-emergenc...Read More | |||
| Mental Illness in the Cockpit | 04/11/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Clayton Osbon, 49, served as a pilot for Jet Blue Airlines for 12 years. On March 27 during Flight 191 from New York to Las Vegas, he suddenly began raving about terrorists and started pushing buttons and flipping switches in the cockpit, all the while telling air traffic controllers to shut up. His...Read More | |||
| Medical Treatment under Workers' Comp | 03/21/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| This was a week where I personally learned one of the obstacles injured workers face.I was lucky. The malady was not industrial. Between my persuasive powers and the fact I knew the doctor, a 30-day wait for an appointment was reduced to one-half day.There was no utilization-...Read More | |||
| March Case Law Update | 03/01/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The following is a summary of important updates to California workers' compensation law.JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATIONIn Jenkins v. Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Rattlers, 2011 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 485, the appeals board held that it had no jurisdiction o...Read More | |||
| Medical Experts Recommending Unorthodox Back Pain Treatment | 02/01/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| As an employer, you are likely familiar with the litany of work injuries that commonly befall your employees, including wrist injuries, foot sprains and, the most common of all, back pain.While this large number of back injuries in the workforce may be alarming and perhaps even frustrati...Read More | |||
| Medical Providers are without a Voice | 01/31/2012 | ||
| By: Reid L. Steinfeld and Richard Boggan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Over and over again, we hear that liens are a problem at the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and the solution appears to be to make rules and regulations that would either discourage medical providers from seeking reimbursement or dismissal of their bills altogether. The writers of this shor...Read More | |||
| Messele: How to Obtain a Proper QME Panel and an Admissible Report | 01/06/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| With the development of utilization review and defendant’s inability to challenge medical treatment through Labor Code §4062 based on the decision in State Comp. Ins. Fund v. WCAB (Sandhagen) 44 Cal. 4th 230, parties are turning with ever- increasing frequency to requesting a panel of qua...Read More | |||
| Major Changes to the Illinois Workers' Compensation System | 09/21/2011 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Trust us, you could care less about most of the rest of the details. Here is the shortest version we can write about what is hitting the Illinois workers' compensation system right now. 1. American Medical Association guidelines will now be used, in part, to determine permanent ...Read More | |||
| More Dollars, More Opioids, More Physician Dispensing | 09/19/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance released its 2011 pharmacy study yesterday, and there's not much in the way of good news. Here are a few of the major take-aways from the research, which used 2009 data. Per-claim drug costs grew by 12% in 2009. Phar...Read More | |||
| MEM Review Demonstrates State Fund Vulnerabilities | 08/17/2011 | ||
| State: MO | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co. is under review, prompted initially by some wrong doing of various board members unrelated to the business of workers' compensation or MEM operations, but continued under question as to whether the state created carrier of last resort was still needed to f...Read More | |||
