Industry Insights
Uribarri: In COVID Claims, Follow the Symptoms | 08/23/2023 | ||
By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
PQME evaluations in workers’ compensation cases can be tricky. With limited time, and sometimes limited records, a PQME must interview an applicant, make an evaluation and issue an opinion on a wide range of topics outlined by lawyers in very long joint letters. ...Read More | |||
Moore: 10-Year Workers' Comp Claims Report Card | 08/22/2023 | ||
By: James Moore | |||
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
What does one have to pay for a 10-year workers' comp claims report card including each year’s report? The answer is gratis. ...Read More | |||
Paduda: Long COVID Is Real. 'Social Inflation' Is Not. | 08/21/2023 | ||
By: Joe Paduda | |||
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
The Workers Compensation Research Institute report on long COVID’s impact on work comp examined claims with an average of 18 months post-infe...Read More | |||
Duff: Workers' Compensation in the Proposed UPS-Teamsters Agreement | 08/17/2023 | ||
By: Michael C. Duff | |||
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
I was very surprised during the pandemic at how little some unions knew about workers' compensation. I'll be keeping a close look during this period of union agitation to see what is happening in collective bargaining agreements relating to workers' compensation. ...Read More | |||
Paduda: Heat and Job Growth | 08/16/2023 | ||
By: Joe Paduda | |||
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
Two mostly-ignored things will have way more impact on workers’ comp than any other 10 factors. ...Read More | |||
Grinberg: Another Item on the Wish List: Rule 35.5(e) | 08/15/2023 | ||
By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
Did you know that sometimes regulations are written with invisible ink? It’s true. Crack open the books and look at Rule 35.5(e). ...Read More | |||
Salem: Meet Judge Shaterra Marion | 08/14/2023 | ||
By: Jane Salem | |||
State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
Sometimes, you just know right away when something’s right. ...Read More | |||
CAAA: State's Labor Movement Has Its Hands Full | 08/11/2023 | ||
By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
Hollywood on strike as artificial Intelligence threatens actual intelligence. Teamsters facing autonomous driverless trucks. Hotel owners cutting daily room cleaning to cut hotel housekeepers’ paychecks. Farmworkers organizing under a new first-in-the-nation law.&nbs...Read More | |||
Paduda: Physician Dispensing in Work Comp Roars Back | 08/10/2023 | ||
By: Joe Paduda | |||
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
Why? Mostly because insurers and employers have been asleep at the switch. ...Read More | |||
Snyder: The Case I Never Forgot | 08/09/2023 | ||
By: Teddy Snyder | |||
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
Decades ago, I worked on a massive product liability case. I was involved on the coverage side rather than the case in chief. ...Read More | |||