Industry Insights
| Moving Toward Empowerment | 06/19/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| When we experience a loss, a wide and confusing range of emotions follows. As we tell our clients, and ourselves, there is no real order to the process when a loss or change is experienced and emotions often overlap one another. How an individual copes with the change differs based on wh...Read More | |||
| My Vocational Rehabilitation Experience | 06/19/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| My Vocational Rehabilitation Experience by JOE GRANATA In early 2001 the cumulative stress to an already Disability-rated low back had brought me to the realization that my career as a Police Captain was nearing the end. After twenty-six plus years as a dedicated law enfo...Read More | |||
| My Vocational Rehabilitation Experience | 06/19/2004 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| My Vocational Rehabilitation Experience by JOE GRANATA In early 2001 the cumulative stress to an already Disability-rated low back had brought me to the realization that my career as a Police Captain was nearing the end. After twenty-six plus years as a dedicated law enfo...Read More | |||
| MI Honors the Victims of Workplace and Roadway Accidents | 05/12/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Honoring the Michigan road workers who lost their lives, and addressing ways to prevent workplace and roadway accidents; workers, construction associations and safety professionals Tuesday hosted the "Give'em a Brake" coalition reception in front of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, MI....Read More | |||
| Med-Legal Reports and Unrepresented Injured Workers | 05/08/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Obtaining Admissible Medical Legal Reports With Unrepresented Injured Workers By Richard JacobsmeyerOne of the issues that has been frequently discussed since the passage of SB 899 is the ability of defendants to obtain medical legal exams under LC sections 4060, 4061...Read More | |||
| Medical Transportation and Resonableness - What to Pay | 01/17/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As is often the case, a dialogue in our Forums essentially take on an educational route by themselves, providing excellent practice article material with a bit of editing for clarity and readability. The following article is a summation of a Professional Forum thread concerning medical transportatio...Read More | |||
| Millbauer & UEF - WCAB Guidance on the Uninsured | 01/03/2004 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Attorneys that have had the great misfortune of filing a case against an uninsured employer in the past have had to deal with what seemed like the never ending bureaucratic nightmare of the Uninsured Employers Fund (UEF). In its best permutation, it would seem that both the applicant and the defense...Read More | |||
| Mandatory Continuing Education for Claims Professionals | 12/20/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An important theme to the recent wave of California workers' compensation reform bills running through Sacramento is claims examiner continuing education and certification. SB 228 added to the Insurance C...Read More | |||
| Medicare, Settlement, Set-Asides & Guidance | 10/25/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Medicare and workers' compensation have conflicts in all 50 states. Medicare officials have indicated that money should be set-aside for possible future medical bills, and memorandum issued by Medicare officials provide clear guidance (albeit, perhaps unconstitutional though untested) on what Medica...Read More | |||
| More Workers' Comp Reform? | 10/25/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Insurance Commissioner Garamendi and a number of prominent legislators are indicating that workers' compensation will be a high priority item on the agenda when the Legislature re-convenes in early January 2004. Governor-elect Schwarznegger has also advised that he considers workers' compensation t...Read More | |||
