Industry Insights
| Presumption Laws: Wide Open Door to Benefits | 10/30/2012 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Jimmy Walters worked for the Florida Department of Corrections. In December 2009, he came down with a cold, but continued to work for a week. He suffered from chills and nausea on his days off and then experienced chest pain. He went to a hospital, where he was treated for "heart symptoms" and subse...Read More | |||
| Private Equity's Interest in Workers' Comp: More to Come | 10/10/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The pace of activity in the private equity world has picked up – dramatically. Driven by lots of dollars sitting in investment funds ready to be deployed, the wind-down of multiple current investment funds, likely changes to the tax code, more private equity firms digging into the workers'...Read More | |||
| Physician Dispensing in Comp: Two Small Victories | 08/01/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Last week, the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission voted in favor of a regulation that would tie reimbursement of physician dispensed drugs to the price set by the original manufacturer. While this regulation has to pass thru a legislative committee before it can be implemented, that was g...Read More | |||
| Peek-a-boo, We See You: A Look at the Ins and Outs of Sub Rosa | 07/27/2012 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The rose is said to have been an ancient symbol of secrecy. Sub rosa literally means “under the rose”and may well describe where your secret agent man may choose to hide when you assign a case out for investigation.The rose's connotation of secrecy dates back to Greek myt...Read More | |||
| Physician Dispensing in Comp: Growth is Exploding | 07/20/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In Illinois, physician dispensed drugs accounted for almost two-thirds of all drug costs in 2010-11. Same in Florida.Maryland - 47%; Pennsylvania - 27%; Tennessee 25%; Michigan - 22%.The data are from the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's just-released study ...Read More | |||
| Pre-existing Occ. Injury must be Compensable to Bar Apportionment | 02/07/2012 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Since the Staffmark decision, the workers' compensation legal community continued to ask questions about the nature of pre-existing occupational injuries and the ability for employer/carrier’s (E/C) to deny a claim on major contributing cause or take an offset with apportionment....Read More | |||
| Physician Dispensing in Fla.: Can Money Buy Bad Policy? | 01/26/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| One of the most powerful firms in the physician dispensing business is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to elected officials in Florida. The donations, to individual politicians and their affiliated organizations, come as the Florida Senate is considering a bill that would limit reimbursemen...Read More | |||
| Physician Dispensing: The Latest from Florida | 01/18/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Physician dispensing in Florida is back in the news, as we await with bated breath the outcome of this session's legislative battle.On one side is the Florida Medical Association and Automated Healthcare Solutions, the Miramar company that provides software, billing services, and oth...Read More | |||
| Predictions for 2011 ... How'd I do? | 12/30/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I'm all about accountability and that means each year I have to report how I did on my predictions for the preceding 12 months. Not always a happy time, especially when it's one of those "learning experiences."Yep, it's time for the annual review of my predictions for the ye...Read More | |||
| Professional Sports and the Relevancy of Comp | 12/21/2011 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Professional sports represents an odd situation for workers' compensation schemes. There is a high degree of risk of injury or even death, especially for the more violent sports such as football, or sports involving speed and/or endurance such as cycling.Work in professional sports r...Read More | |||
