Workers' Compensation News
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Keefe: Effort to Slash Attorneys' Fees in Settlement Smoothly Rebuffed | 10/11/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 555 | 0 | |||
| This claim involved three of Illinois’ more prominent and successful claimant firms that Keefe, Campbell, Biery and Associates respects as solid advocates for the injured workers they diligently represent. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Claims, They Are A-Shifting | 10/10/2017 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 701 | 0 | |||
| There appears to be a trend among many work comp insurers to shift more and more claims-handling responsibilities to third party administrators (TPAs). ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Watch Out for 'Innovation' | 10/09/2017 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 651 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In any very mature industry — and workers’ comp is certainly that — certain truths are immutable. Scale, margin compression, consolidation are all inevitable — or at least two out of three are. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Proving Reasonable Fees in Florida | 10/06/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 843 | 0 | |||
| An interesting, but brief, decision came from the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal in July. The court addressed attorney fees in Clancy Co. v. Smith. This is not a workers' co...Read More | |||
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Keefe: When Riding a Zombie Dragon, Try Not to Get Eaten | 10/05/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 561 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As part of making a permanent impairment or workers' compensation claim, some claimants and their attorneys encourage high medical bills to make “special damages” respectively high for settlements. I feel that strategy, like the zombie dragon from "Game of Thrones,&...Read More | |||
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Ruiz: Close That File: A New-Fangled Thomas Finding to the Rescue | 10/04/2017 | |
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| Source: Manuel A. Ruiz | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 837 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As time passes, we are handling fewer and fewer pre-Jan. 1, 2013, injuries. As such, we are going to be encountering more instances where settling a voucher becomes an issue. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Why the Foresight Deal Is Different | 10/03/2017 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 670 | 0 | |||
| There are two big takeaways: the price, and why Paradigm paid so much. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Is Waiver of Third-Party Rights by Employee Enforceable? | 10/02/2017 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 601 | 0 | |||
| There is seemingly no end to the attacks on a workers’ compensation carrier’s rights of subrogation and reimbursement when a third-party is liable for a work-related injury. In New Jersey, however, the Supreme Court will soon be deciding whether the employee is prohibited from su...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Do We Really Need So Many WC Arbitrators? | 09/29/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 904 | 0 | |||
| Almost as fast as I stopped whining about the secret process to select Illinois workers' compensation arbitrators, I learn we just added two more. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Can We Make Ourselves Safe(er)? | 09/28/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 494 | 0 | |||
| There will be disagreements. People are very different from one another. Despite our differences, we are drawn together through socialization, in communities that include towns, schools and workplaces. And, as people are brought together, they have disagreements. ...Read More | |||
