Industry Insights
| No Ex Parte Communication with QME? | 07/26/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Aaron HemmingsGrancell, Lebovitz, Stander, Reubens and ThomasThe 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in Carlos Alvarez v. WCAB B218847 that a party was entitled to a new panel of QMEs under Labor Code section 4062.3(f) when the QME called opposing counsel regarding document...Read More | |||
| New York: Joint and Infinite Liability | 06/25/2010 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanThe saga of the New York self insurance trusts continues. We reported in April that justice had been served by Judge Kimberly O'Connell, who ruled that requiring solvent trusts to pay for the sins of insolvent trusts was unconstitutional. Now, according to...Read More | |||
| N.Y.'s Domestic Worker Bill or Rights | 06/21/2010 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesIn the 1930s, when the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passed, these two laws offered labor protections to workers nationwide with the exception of two large segments of the work population: dom...Read More | |||
| NCCI: Insurance in the Obama Era | 05/18/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealth Strategy AssociatesBob Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute talked about his optimistic views of the economy, a somewhat different perspective than he shared with the audience at last year's National Council on Compensation Insurance's Annual I...Read More | |||
| NCCI's State of the Industry 2010 the Details | 05/14/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealth Strategy AssociatesThe much-anticipated "State of the Line" presentation by the National Council on Compensation Insurance's Dennis Mealy is the highlight of the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium. Here's what Dennis had to say.First, the overall p...Read More | |||
| North Dakota They Do Things Different Up There | 03/30/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: ND | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealth Strategy AssociatesLoyal readers, return with us once again to the wilds of North Dakota, that ice-bound region where executives are criminalized for signing off on cookies and balloons at farewell parties, where out-of-control prosecutors deny defendants their ...Read More | |||
| New York Should Embrace Technology Challenge | 02/22/2010 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By David LanghamIn the film Dante's Peak, there is a scene in which the lead (Pierce Brosnan) says to his team something to the effect of "why are we not evacuating this town, if we had not been here all week, and walked into these readings, this situation, today, we would evacuate t...Read More | |||
| Nevans Responds to DePaolo Editorial on Assessment Increases | 12/03/2009 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Editor's Note: This letter was written in response to a Nov. 30 editorial by WorkCompCentral Chief Executive Officer David DePaolo.By Carrie NevansUser funding provides a fully vetted, stable funding source for Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) programs, whi...Read More | |||
| Not Exactly a Rush to Judgment | 10/26/2009 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanKris Indergard used to work on the railroad. Then she hurt her knee (partly work related), had surgery and was out of work for over a year. Her doctor established "permanent" restrictions. Indergard wanted to return to work, so Georgia Pacific sent her for a physical capa...Read More | |||
| Nebraska Adopts Lump-Sum Settlements Without Court Review | 10/23/2009 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NE | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon GelmanThe State of Nebraska has moved forward administratively and now permits the settlement of workers’ compensation claims without Court approval. The parties need only file a release with the Court. The injured workers must be represented by counsel and the settlements a...Read More | |||
