Industry Insights
| Insult to Injury: Medical-Legal Billing Collection Post-SB 863 | 09/24/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Senate Bill 863 dramatically changed the conditions for unpaid and underpaid medical-legal providers. Those who rely on pre-2013 strategies will likely discover that their legitimate charges have been forever dismissed due to failure to employ the remedies mandated by SB 863. As co...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for California | 09/23/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! Hernandez v. Thermal Structures, E054878, (09/12/2013): Workers' compensation exclusivity barred a factory worker from suing his employer after his hands were crushed...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Florida Case Law | 09/17/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| NEW! Amcon Builders v. Pardo, 3D13-1169, (09/04/2013): The Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to review a trial judge's denial of an employer's motion for summary judgment based on...Read More | |||
| Important Case Law for Illinois | 09/16/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| NEW! National Freight Industries v. IWCC, 120043WC (09/03/2013): The Illinois Appellate Court has denied rehearing of a dispute about whether a worker who suffered two work-related injuries with different employers...Read More | |||
| Important Recent Case Law for Texas | 09/09/2013 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| NEW! Clary v. ExxonMobil Corp., 09-12-00060-CV, (09/05/201...Read More | |||
| Intervention Now Mandatory in Miss. Workers' Comp Subrogation | 08/20/2013 | ||
| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: MS | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Mississippi Supreme Court recently dropped a bombshell and announced that in order to be reimbursed for its statutory workers’ compensation lien, a workers’ compensation carrier or employer must intervene into the third-party action. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. v. Shoemake, 2013 WL 18317...Read More | |||
| IMEs in a New York Minute | 08/05/2013 | ||
| State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Back in 2009, we blogged an expose from the New York Times concerning the abuse of independent medical exams (IMEs) in New York. The article quoted 79-year-old Dr. Hershel Samuels, who performed as many as 50 exams in a day. He filled out a checklist and let others write the reports. Did he read the...Read More | |||
| Insurer Never Had Right to be Party in Repetitive Trauma Case | 07/26/2013 | ||
| By: Matthew Ignoffo | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In QBE Insurance Co. v. The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, Ronald Voges, and G & S Foundry, (2013 IL App 5th 120336 WC, opinion filed July 12, 2013), QBE sought review of a Circuit...Read More | |||
| I Am What I Am | 07/12/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Popeye was famous for saying, "I am what I am." We now struggle with what we are: as a nation we are becoming more obese, more lethargic and yet more concerned about our diet and health. I remember years ago getting my first Florida Workers' Compensation Institute Reference Manual at...Read More | |||
| If you're not Perry Mason, Bring Evidence | 06/07/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| So long ago on a playground far, far away, children engaged in arguments on so many topics, hoping to persuade one another with such retailing logic as “oh huh.” There is little to be gained in an argument or discussion which centers on “yes it is” versus “no it’s...Read More | |||
