Industry Insights
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Speekenbrink and Peters: AI and Empathetic Workers' Comp Adjusters | 08/15/2024 | |
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| By: Tycho Speekenbrink and John Peters | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Marie, a dedicated workers' compensation adjuster, faces an endless stream of complex claims. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Nudging Parties to Choose Settlement | 08/14/2024 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At every stage in conflict resolution, parties face an array of choices, but they don’t always recognize them. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: What Happened to Micro-Captive Risk Management? | 08/13/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Micro-captive risk management was one of the hot topics until the 831(b) captives disappeared from the workers' comp insurance scene. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Mandatory E-Billing Approaches | 08/12/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York's Workers’ Compensation Board is asking providers to be proactive and get ahead of a major impending change: Electronic billing will be mandatory by this time next year. ...Read More | |||
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Johnson: SIBTF Study Is a Failure of Analysis | 08/09/2024 | |
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| By: Arthur L. Johnson | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At the beginning of the 20th century, the “grand bargain” was enacted. That grand bargain provided: ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC Defies Law, Botches WCIS | 08/08/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Without reliable data, no government can understand — let alone solve — the problems of any major system. Yet California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has openly defied California legislators and failed to gather vital workers’ comp data, in unabashed viol...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Labor Code 4053 and a Suspension of Benefits | 08/07/2024 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| When an applicant refuses to attend a medical evaluation, one of the more straightforward statutes in the Labor Code allows for the court to suspend a case and bar an applicant’s right to benefits. ...Read More | |||
| CAAA: A Victory for App-Based Companies; a Loss for App-Based Workers | 08/06/2024 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| On July 25, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, allowing companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. This ruling in Hector Castellanos v. State of California was not unexpected, as observers of the...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Key Lessons and Future Steps for COVID-19 Response | 08/02/2024 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| The "Independent Review of New Jersey’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic," conducted by Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, is a comprehensive review that evaluates New Jersey’s preparedness, response and lessons learned during the pandemic. It also...Read More | |||
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Salem: Minimum Comp Rate Applies, Even Against Social Security Offset | 08/01/2024 | |
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| By: Jane Salem | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| Last week, the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals Board answered an issue of first impression about statutory construction and in particular whether an employer is entitled to the Social Security offset in Section 50-6-207(4)(A)(i) when applying it lowers an employee’s compens...Read More | |||
