Industry Insights
| Winning the Pharmacy Game Takes Blocking, Tackling | 02/10/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael G. Dileo The severity trend of workers' compensation pharmacy costs is finally starting to show some slight signs of recession. In the last ten years, pharmacy costs for many carriers have more than doubled and still represent anywhere from 10 percent to 20 percent of total med...Read More | |||
| Will Section 4607 Erupt in Litigation Firestorm? | 01/27/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a decision that potentially could be a serious blow to the efforts of employers, carriers and third party administrators to control medical costs through utilization review. In a consolidated opinion in involving two c...Read More | |||
| Worker Knew Forklift Had Defective Brakes, Assumed Risk | 01/27/2007 | ||
| By: Larry Rogak | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Larry Rogak Carrero v. General Fork Lift Co., Inc., 2007 NY Slip Op 00105, (Appellate Division, Second Department) The plaintiff allegedly was injured while operating a pallet jack owned by his employer and repaired by the defendant. Approximately a month and ...Read More | |||
| Workers' Compensation Revisited | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Doug Whitley Workers' compensation is a near crisis issue in Illinois, with fraud and abuse costing private sector employers and taxpayers and damaging our economy. The Chicago Sun-Times recently published an excellent investigative series that exposes workers' compensation fra...Read More | |||
| What's Next for Networks? | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By David T. Weber One of the key provisions of House Bill 7 implementing workers' compensation reforms was the creation of certified workers' compensation health care networks ("certified networks"). This provision in the law was seen as an opportunity in the Texas workers' compensation s...Read More | |||
| Wyden Bill for Universal Health Care: The (Hidden) Comp Dimension | 01/13/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon Coppelman "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning," Winston Churchill, November 1942. When it comes to universal health insurance, we'll have to push the Churchill quote back even further. Sen. ...Read More | |||
| WCAB Rules PDRS Validly Adopted | 12/16/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer In a decision that is sure to find a mixed review from both the applicant and the employer and carrier community; the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has finally issued its en banc decision in Costa v. State Compensation Insurance Fund. In his a...Read More | |||
| Work Comp Odds and Ends | 12/02/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jake Jacobsmeyer There are a couple of other items of significance from the Courts of Appeal that are of interest to the general workers' compensation community: ALDI Writ Denied: The 1st Appellate District has denied the applicant's Petition for Writ of Review in...Read More | |||
| What Did You Say About My Overhead Projector? | 12/02/2006 | ||
| By: Jim Smith | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jim Smith There was a male claimant who worked in the audio/visual department of a large teaching hospital. For a year this man kept a secret diary of any and all negative comments made by his co-workers regarding the audio/visual equipment used at the hospital. After a year o...Read More | |||
| Wal-Mart: Wrong Turn On Ergonomics | 12/02/2006 | ||
| By: Jordan Barab | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jordan Barab Gotta hand it to Wal-Mart. They certainly know how to spin the press. They're happy all the time, they help people save money, they have "associates," not employees, they're the new environmental champions, and now they've apparently become a leader in ergonomics. ...Read More | |||
