Industry Insights
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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 | |||
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Anders: New Year Brings New Enhancements to MSPRP | 01/16/2019 | |
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| By: Daniel Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Over the past year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been enhancing its web-based Medicare Secondary Recovery Portal, which has improved its usefulness in identifying and resolving Medicare conditional payments. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: The Ingredients of Effective Mediation | 01/15/2019 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| What are the attributes of effective mediation? These four principles are integral: ...Read More | |||
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Fish: Reform Proposal's Chances Look Slim | 01/14/2019 | |
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| By: Mike Fish | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In November of 2017, the Alabama State Bar appointed a task force to review the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act and make recommendations for improvement. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Workers' Comp Judicial Hellholes Report, 2018 Version | 01/11/2019 | |
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| Source: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The workers' comp judicial hellholes was taken from the American Tort Reform Foundation’s Judicial Hellholes for 2018-2019. The Judicial Hellholes ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: WCAB Rejects 'Every Specific Injury Is a Violent Act' Theory | 01/10/2019 | |
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| Source: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I have repeatedly expressed my frustration with the interpretation of Labor Code Section 4660.1(c)(1) and the “violent act” definition. ...Read More | |||
