Industry Insights
| The Demise of Dreaded Rule 30? | 07/14/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| By Ted RichardsGrancell, Lebovitz, Stander, Reubens and Thomas It has been dubbed the Dreaded Rule 30. It is a trap for the unwary and despised by defendants and their attorneys. It has its own six page article in the December 2009 update to the Workers’ Comp...Read More | |||
| The Federalization of Workers' Comp | 07/13/2010 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon GelmanThe trend toward federalization of workers’ compensation benefits took a giant step forward by recent presidential action creating the British Petroleum Oil Compensation Fund. While the details remain vague, the broad and sweeping concept of inclusiveness is more than ...Read More | |||
| To Treat or not to Treat | 07/12/2010 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Julius YoungBoxer & GersonAs a blogger on California workers' comp issues, I sometimes get interesting calls.Yesterday's call? From a doctor's group (to protect confidentiality, I'll mask any particularizing details.)The medical practi...Read More | |||
| Tewksbury (Finally) Opts In | 06/24/2010 | ||
| State: MA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| There are five towns in Massachusetts that do not carry workers comp insurance for their employees. Four of them Dana, Prescott, Enfield and Greenwich are under 412 billion gallons of water: The...Read More | |||
| The Annals of Disability: Post Traumatic Spitting Syndrome | 06/11/2010 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesThe Insider scans the world of risk in a risky world. We try to zero in on hazards that might be overlooked in the rush of daily commerce. In that spirit we bring you the distasteful but necessary tale from the New York Times involving bus...Read More | |||
| The Politics of Workers' Comp Rates | 05/21/2010 | ||
| State: MA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon CoppelmanMassachusetts has the lowest workers' comp rates among the major industrial states and just about the lowest rates in the nation. The cost of comp in the other New England states is roughly double that in the Bay state. So you would think that the rates in...Read More | |||
| The Sedgwick Sale; What's the Deal? | 05/11/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealth Strategy AssociatesLast month's announcement that Sedgwick, the giant third-party administrator, is about to be sold marks the end of a months-long process that has implications well beyond the sale of one company.For starters, it's good news...Read More | |||
| The Missing Link: Tying Bill Review to Utilization Review | 04/29/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaHealthcare Strategy AssociatesThe comp industry spends millions on utilization review certifying a procedure, hospital stay, therapy, or treatment as 'necessary' or not. What most payers don't realize, or, more correctly, probably realize and don't di...Read More | |||
| There Still is an Intoxication Defense in Illinois | 03/26/2010 | ||
| By: Arik D. Hetue | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Arik D. HetueKeefe, Cambpell & Associates We applaud the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission for recently reversing an arbitrator’s ruling finding a very drunk employee to have suffered a compensable workplace injury despite admittedly drinking for four ...Read More | |||
| Texas' Efforts to Add Science to the Art of Work Comp Medicine | 03/16/2010 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaAs anyone who has studied physician practice patterns is only too aware, there is wide variation in how physicians practice; the kinds of tests they order, whether they admit patients to the hospital or treat on an outpatient basis, the drugs they prescribe and the outcomes ...Read More | |||
