Industry Insights
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Wickert: Employee May Not Recover UM Benefits | 03/01/2023 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: SC | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| South Carolina’s exclusive remedy rule has prevented an employee from collecting $350,000 in uninsured motorist benefits for injuries she sustained in an automobile accident she was in while a passenger in a vehicle owned and driven by a co-employee. ...Read More | |||
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Wilson: What's Driving Social Inflation, and What Can Be Done About It? | 02/07/2023 | |
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| By: Heather H. Wilson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Inflation is very much in the news these days, as the cost of virtually everything seems to be on an upward trajectory. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Nationwide 'Made Whole' War Being Waged on Subrogation | 01/19/2023 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Until recently, the made whole doctrine had not been applied outside the context of a bankruptcy proceeding in Connecticut. However, the Connecticut Supreme Court has given us a clue as to how it will treat this issue in the future. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Subrogation Reimbursement for Record Reviews, Medical Reports | 09/26/2022 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In addition to paying for medical expenses, death benefits, funeral costs and/or indemnity benefits for lost wages resulting from a compensable injury, workers’ compensation insurance carriers also expend considerable dollars for case management costs, medical bill audit fees, independent m...Read More | |||
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Wickert: The Importance of Clarity in Subrogation Stipulations and Agreements | 07/19/2022 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough once said, “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it is so hard.” ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court Rejects Attempt to Limit Carrier's Reimbursement to 'Like Damages' | 05/26/2022 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: VA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Trial lawyers in Virginia have been trying for decades to convince the state’s courts to rule that a workers’ compensation carrier is not subrogated to non-economic damages awarded or recovered in a third-party tort action. On March 29, the latest such effort was turned away by the Vi...Read More | |||
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Wong: Limiting Maphet: Two Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals Cases | 05/04/2022 | |
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| By: Sara Wong | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Washington State Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals recently released its list of 2021 significant decisions, and the list includes two decisions limiting Maphet and providing employer tools to limit claim exposures. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court of Appeals Does About-Face | 05/02/2022 | |
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| By: Lee R. Wickert | |||
| State: KS | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On the same day that the Alabama Court of Appeals issued its ruling in O’Brien v. Mobile Public Library, attempting to curtail the rights of a workers’ compensation carrier against UM/UIM benefits, the Kansas Court of Appeals was doing exactly the opposite. ...Read More | |||
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Wong: Significant Board Decisions Refresher: Proper and Necessary Medical Treatment | 11/02/2021 | |
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| By: Sara Wong | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This week’s refresher concerns significant Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals decisions related to medical treatment. ...Read More | |||
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Wong: Significant Board Decisions Refresher: Reopenings | 10/20/2021 | |
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| By: Sara Wong | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This week’s refresher concerns significant Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals decisions related to reopenings. ...Read More | |||
