Workers' Compensation News
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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 | 606 | 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 | 909 | 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 | 501 | 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 | |||
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Young: Tapering and Weaning | 09/27/2017 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 901 | 0 | |||
| How should opioid tapering be done under California’s Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule and the formulary regulations that are being developed? ...Read More | |||
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Scarpa: IMR Remains Untouched by Attacks on Constitutionality | 09/26/2017 | |
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| By: Lisa Scarpa | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 750 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As if the ushering in of independent medical review under SB 863 had not raised enough questions and litigation, still more concerns regarding independent medical review were highlighted in the case of ...Read More | |||
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Fink: Getting Fraud Out of the Workers' Compensation System | 09/25/2017 | |
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| By: Tony Fink | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1528 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The activity by fraudulent medical providers in California’s workers’ compensation system has been well documented, and the impact can be seen by the inflated costs for medical treatment and abundance of liens clogging the system. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Social Media and Judges | 09/22/2017 | |
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| Source: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 2332 | 0 | |||
| The ABA Journal recently reported that a Texas judge is subject to some s...Read More | |||
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O'Gorman: Worker Needs to Show More Than Simply Being at Work to Get Benefits | 09/21/2017 | |
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| By: Timothy O’Gorman | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 717 | 1 | |||
| Herff Jones v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, 2017 IL App (4th) 160346WC-U again confirms that the Illinois courts have rejected the use of the “positional risk” doctrine in the state workers' compensation system. ...Read More | |||
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Crowley: Workers' Compensation Remains Traumatically Injured | 09/20/2017 | |
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| By: Rory Crowley | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 676 | 0 | |||
| Editor’s note: This column was originally published by the Chico Enterprise-Record in its bi-weekly North State Voices column. ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Automation Designed to Keep People Safe Can Produce Opposite Result | 09/19/2017 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 750 | 0 | |||
| A ...Read More | |||
