Industry Insights
| Why I Won't Do CA Comp Anymore | 04/08/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By York McGavin My company operates in about 38 States, and in each and every state, we are 'non-participating' providers. I have declined more than a few offers to join an MPN, and will continue to do so. In fact, my company stopped accepting new IW referrals as of 1/1/05. The...Read More | |||
| What Is Considered 'Repetitive'? | 03/25/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Excellent question and the "community" does not have a single answer. By community, I am referring to those whose work entails analyzing jobs as well as those who work with these evaluations, measurements and assessments such as physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, etc. and job analysts....Read More | |||
| What's Driving Excessive Medical Costs in Work Comp? | 03/25/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Janet Jamieson PHD. Although some of the increases we have seen in workers' compensation medical costs may be due to general inflation of the cost of medical services, I believe the greatest contributor is the lack of controls over both treatment and pricing. Several yea...Read More | |||
| Wood v. Florida Rock and Attorney Fees | 02/25/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Landmark Alert - Case Alert Definitive Ruling by the 1st District Court of Appeal ATTORNEY'S FEES "Reasonable" means: a statutorily scheduled fee - period! James Wood v. Florida Rock Industries & Crawford & Co., 31 Fla....Read More | |||
| Workers Compensation - Loss Transfer | 01/28/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Workers Compensation - Loss Transfer by Larry Rogak Does a workers compensation insurer (or self-insurer) have a right to recover WC medical and lost wage benefits from the no-fault carrier of a vehicle in which a worker is injured during the course of his employment?...Read More | |||
| When a Building Foundation Is an Elevated Risk | 01/14/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| WORKER'S FALL FROM TOP OF BUILDING FOUNDATION INTO BASEMENT IS AN ELEVATION RELATED RISK Oliveira v. Long Island Home Development Corp., NYLJ 10/11/05 (Supreme Court, Nassau County) (FEINMAN, j) This personal injury action arose out of an incident that occurred on Septemb...Read More | |||
| Waiver of Lien Prevents Subsequent Enforcement | 11/19/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| ONCE PLAINTIFF OBTAINS WAIVER OF COMP LIEN AND SETTLES HIS BI ACTION, HE CANNOT GO BACK TO COMP CARRIER FOR ITS SHARE OF LITIGATION EXPENSESby Larry Rogak Sambets Jr. v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. Inc., NYLJ 11/17/05 (Supreme Court, New York County) (KAPNICK, j.) ...Read More | |||
| Workers' Compensation - A Modern Fairy Tale | 11/05/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| by Mary BaileyOnce upon a time, in the greatest nation in the world, the United States Congress passed the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970", (or the OSHA act). It was a very, very good law for the hard working people of this very great nation. It said: "...the ...Read More | |||
| What is the Human Cost? | 09/24/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Over the past several years we have watched the legislative process concerning workers compensation in Florida. Of course there is always mention of fraud and exorbitant attorney fees. Of course the fraud is always committed by someone other than the carrier. Of course the answer to the problem is c...Read More | |||
| Work Comp Reform - Spurring National Changes | 08/14/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Michael Weinper, MPH, PT Trends that start in California often spread to the rest of the country. That may be the case with the state's recent workers' compensation reforms, which seem to be producing significantly lower medical costs. Both employers and insurers there are ge...Read More | |||
