Industry Insights
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Snyder: Written Mediation Disclosure Agreements | 12/17/2018 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Effective Jan. 1, 2019, California attorneys must provide a written mediation disclosure statement to clients or face potential disciplinary consequences. ...Read More | |||
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Jacobsmeyer: Court Reverses WCAB on Apportionment Causation Standard | 12/14/2018 | |
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| By: Jake Jacobsmeyer | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The 1st Appellate District Court of Appeals has reversed yet another WCAB opinion in which the board has applied the post-SB 899 rules on apportionment too restrictively. ...Read More | |||
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Fein: Choosing the Right Drug-Testing Courses | 12/13/2018 | |
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| Source: Lewis Fein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A drug-free workplace is a safer place to work, provided the drug testers themselves have passed the test; provided they have done the coursework; provided they have taken the right courses to do their jobs with accuracy and ease; provided the provider of the coursework is himself an expert &mdas...Read More | |||
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Young: Rand Posts Med-Legal Study Draft Report | 12/12/2018 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Rand Corp. has posted its draft report on medical-legal reporting in California workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Time Is Critical | 12/11/2018 | |
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| Source: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In October, the Mississippi Court of Appeals published Emmanuel Ridge Community Services Inc. v. Loggins. It is a case primarily about about time, and there are lessons to be learned from that aspect. It al...Read More | |||
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Duff: Supreme Court Affirms Full State Reimbursement for Air Ambulance Services | 12/10/2018 | |
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| Source: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: WY | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Imagine the following (a simplification of Air Methods/Rocky Mountain Holdings v. Workers’ Compensation Division): ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Recommendations for Holiday Workers' Compensation Book Giving | 12/07/2018 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I boldly offer here recommendations for holiday book giving for that special lawyer or judge in your life (or, for that matter, you or some other person) who is keen to enhance his knowledge about our field and/or those areas with which we often interface. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Should Workers' Comp Be a Litigious Industry? | 12/06/2018 | |
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| Source: Gregory Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Workers’ compensation was designed to reduce litigation by trading out the employee’s right to sue his employer for negligence in exchange for limited guarantee of care and compensation. This exclusive remedy “bargain” was the justification for why the system was created a...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Unfounded Optimism | 12/05/2018 | |
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| Source: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The fall of Atlanta “is not a calamity that endangers our cause.” — Montgomery, Alabama Advertiser, September 1864 ...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Violence in the ER: A Big Problem Getting Worse | 12/04/2018 | ||
| Source: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Men and women who yearn to follow in the footsteps of Hippocrates, Galen and Banting are taught many things in med school, but there is no course called "Violence in the ER, and What to Do When it Happens to You." Until recent times that hasn&rsquo...Read More | |||
