Industry Insights
| Stressed Out Owner on His Own | 12/28/2011 | ||
| State: NH | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Raymond Letellier co-founded a steel fabrication company in New Hampshire called Steelelements. The company suffered a major fire in March 2007. They rebuilt, although the cost of the rebuilding, managed by Letellier's partner, exceeded the budget. In October 2009, the company went out of busine...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Weighs in on COLA Start Date | 11/17/2011 | ||
| By: Max Breall | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The California Supreme Court has issued its decision in Baker v. WCAB (S179194), deciding the highly contested question of when the start date for cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) calculations should begin for life pension and total permanent disability awarded claims.The Court found th...Read More | |||
| SB 684 Heads to Gov. Brown | 09/23/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Today's workers' compensation defense post will examine the new law passed by the state Legislature, which strives to introduce both fairness and transparency to workers' comp arbitration.For many years, one of the primary sources of contention between California employers an...Read More | |||
| Salas v. Sierra Chemical | 08/16/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| A decision rendered Aug. 9 by the California 3rd District Court of Appeal is likely to be of wide interest to the California workers' comp industry.The decision in Salas V. Sierra Chemical Co. was authored by Justice Andrea Hoch and joined by Justice Vance Raye and Justice Harry Hull...Read More | |||
| Social Media and Workers Comp | 08/11/2011 | ||
| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Julie FergusonLynch Ryan and AssociatesAre Facebook, Twitter and other social media postings fair game when conducting a workers comp fraud investigation?We've posted on this topic previously, including a reference to a successful Facebook-related investigation c...Read More | |||
| Seven Problems Facing Work Comp in a Credit Default | 08/02/2011 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon GelmanWorkers' Compensation payments are so intertwined with the national system of workers' compensation that a potential U.S. credit fault will impact the system significantly. Workers' Compensation is social remedial legislation and as the U.S. government leaders st...Read More | |||
| Stair Stepping Reserves Occurs When Adjusters Ignore Claim Basics | 06/21/2011 | ||
| By: Rebecca Shafer | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By Rebecca ShaferAmaxx Risks SolutionsWhenever a claim quality auditor or an actuarial auditor sees stair-stepping of workers' compensation reserves, it is immediately either the adjuster is inexperienced or lazy. When the auditor sees numerous small changes in the reserves upw...Read More | |||
| School Officer Charged with Multiple Felonies | 06/01/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Zachary H. SacksSacks & ZolonzIn recent employee fraud news, a Los Angeles school police officer is currently facing a variety of criminal charges, including workers' compensation fraud, for allegedly staging a carjacking and shooting.According to the now-uns...Read More | |||
| State Funds: Are they Really Worth it? | 05/31/2011 | ||
| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By James MooreJ&L Risk Management ConsultantsI read today where California State Compensation Insurance Fund has requested legislation to expand their coverage into non-California states for its insureds. I was wondering if this would be the first step into privatization and ex...Read More | |||
| Somebody Else Did it! A Primer on Third-Party Cases | 05/02/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Howard Stevens McDermott & ClawsonThe employee and employer each have an independent cause of action for damages against a negligent third party. Lab. Code § 3852; Buell v. CBS, Inc. (1982) 136 Cal. App. 3d 823, 825, 186 Cal. Rptr. 455. The employee may simultaneo...Read More | |||
