Industry Insights
| Other Golden State Cases of Interest | 05/06/2009 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Howard J. StevensWe do our best, whenever major case law is handed down, to keep our readers abreast of the latest judicial holdings that inevitably affect the economic value of your cases and your procedural strategies. Along these lines, we have focused past editions on ...Read More | |||
| Ohio Supreme Ct. Reviews 1973 Work Comp Case in 2008 | 01/16/2009 | ||
| State: OH | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Justice Paul E. PfeiferIn 1973, while working as a telephone lineman for Sprint/United Telephone Company, a man named Richard Pierron was seriously injured in an on-the-job accident. Although the accident occurred more than 35 years ago, his subsequent workers' compensation claim ...Read More | |||
| Outpatient Hospital Costs | 07/11/2008 | ||
| By: McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Pope & Weaver | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Pope & WeaverThe Three-Member Panel on Workers’ Compensation has postponed any action on an outpatient hospital reimbursement manual while negotiations between the DWC and the industry continue.Restructuring healthcare provider reim...Read More | |||
| Of Mountains and Molehills | 05/02/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Richard "Jake" JacobsmeyerAs most of those of you who receive these legal updates are aware, I rarely comment on any legal opinions unless the decision constitutes "citable authority."Citable legal authority includes published decisions of appellate courts, the Workers'...Read More | |||
| Only three signicant comp bills passed this session. | 10/25/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| -- By Richard “Jake” Jacobsmeyer This year turned out to be another very light year in terms of workers’ compensation legislation with only three significant pieces of legislation approved by Legisl...Read More | |||
| Original Labor Code Section 4661 WCAB Panel Decision Upheld | 09/08/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer One of the first cases from the WCAB to issue on the old vs. new PDRS schedule controversy, almost two years ago, has wound its way through the appellate courts and is now the sixth published decision and 13th total in the line of cases ruling on theses issues, not in...Read More | |||
| Occupational Orthopedic Medical Group Addresses Causation | 07/14/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Dr. Gilbert Jody It has been two years since the passage of SB 899 and many workers' compensation medical providers are still not proficient in dealing with the issue of apportionment of treatment to causation. Prior to 2004, apportionment in Workers' Compensation was only directed to...Read More | |||
| Office Desk Not a 'Scaffold' in Window Cleaner's Injury Suit | 07/14/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Broggy v. Rockefeller Group Inc. 2007 NY Slip Op 05775 Decided on July 2, 2007 The Court of Appeals has held that a window washer who stood on an office desk to make it more convenient for him to reach a window, and then fell off, does not ha...Read More | |||
| Old vs New Schedule Decision | 01/27/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer The District Court of Appeal in the 1st Appellate District has ordered publication of a previously issued decision interpreting Labor Code Section 4660 and the obligation to utilize the pre-1/1/05 permanent disability rating schedule where the treating physician signe...Read More | |||
| On-the-Job Injury Dismissed; Hazard Inherent | 12/16/2006 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Djinovic v. Equitable Life Assurance Society et al., NYLJ 12/13/06 (Supreme Court, Richmond Co.) (McMahon, j) When an employee's job necessarily entails certain obvious and expected risks that are inherent in the nature of the job, he obviously can't sue...Read More | |||
