Industry Insights
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Langham: Limine and Workers' Compensation | 01/31/2019 | |
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| Source: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In American legal proceedings there are debates of law and facts. The fact debates can be illustrated easily enough. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Injured Worker Can Use Phone to Record QME Exam | 01/30/2019 | |
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| Source: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| So many of our litigated workers’ compensation cases turn on the medical-legal exam. Everyone knows that every single chiropractic qualified medical evaluators will find every injury results in 100% disability that is industrially caused, while every spine and orth...Read More | |||
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Duff: The 'Entrepreneurial Opportunity' Canard | 01/29/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The world of workers' compensation is always well-served to keep abreast of labor and employment law developments outside of its ordinary confines. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Danger of Assumptions | 01/28/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The older I get, the more I understand the value of experience. Convenient, huh? ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Low-Wage Workers Pay More for Health Care Than High-Wage Workers | 01/25/2019 | ||
| Source: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Anyone who can rub two brain cells together knows America spends more — much more — on health care than any other developed nation. Also well established is the sad fact that in terms of health care outcomes our brethren in the Organization for Economic Co-operation ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Want Premium Savings? Keep Your Website Updated | 01/24/2019 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| How can workers' comp premium savings come from updating your website? One of our clients from last year had let its website sit for a few years without updating it. What happened caused me to write this article. ...Read More | |||
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Ko: How Can WC Systems Promote Occupational Safety and Health? | 01/23/2019 | |
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| Source: Gina Ko | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requested Rand Corp., an American nonprofit policy think tank, to explore this very question with key stakeholders, in order to find ways to improve workers’ compensation policies that better promote occupational safety and he...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: Apportionment in Our Post-SB 899 World | 01/22/2019 | |
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| Source: Jemma S. Uribarri | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Apportionment was revamped with the enactment of SB 899 in 2004. It had long been the case that employers were liable for exacerbations or aggravations of underlying conditions without any benefit of apportionment to the pre-existing condition. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Absent Evidence of Causation, At-Work Collapse Not AOE/COE | 01/18/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Pop quiz: A worker collapses on the job and ultimately expires. No witnesses appear with an explanation of what happened — no trauma, no blows, no anything. He just collapses and dies. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Empty Pre-Emption of Workers' Compensation | 01/17/2019 | |
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| Source: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I am interested in conflicts between federal and state law in the context of workers’ compensation. And I am especially interested in a phenomenon I have called empty pre-emption: when federal law with little or no substance displaces state law possessing substance. ...Read More | |||
