Industry Insights
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Young: Loosey-Goosey | 11/09/2018 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Over the years I’ve been amazed about the loosey-goosey approach many attorneys have toward the qualified medical evaluator process. ...Read More | |||
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McFaul and Doornink: Would You Like to Share Attorney Fees? | 11/07/2018 | |
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| Source: Anna McFaul and Christy Doornink | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Typically, parties are responsible for paying their own attorney’s fees. There are some exceptions to this, such as when a person is forced to litigate to recover an award or when other persons or entities who want to share in the award must also share the responsibility for the attorney fe...Read More | |||
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Lakshmikanthan: Payoffs for AI in Commercial Insurance | 11/06/2018 | |
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| By: Jayant Lakshmikanthan | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The commercial insurance industry is in an early and exciting stage of adopting artificial intelligence. With widespread acceptance, AI is slated to provide a large source of value and a be key driver of competitive advantage going forward. ...Read More | |||
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Anders: Apparent Change in CMS Policy Expands Inclusion of Lyrica in MSAs | 11/05/2018 | |
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| Source: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Lyrica is a brand name-only medication that costs $8.91 per pill at 150 milligrams. Over a 20-year life expectancy, this is close to $200,000 in an Medicare set-aside allocation. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Workers' Comp Claim Counts Are Down … Right? | 11/02/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recently released analysis of workers’ comp claim frequency tells us what we’ve known for years: The percentage of workers who get hurt on the job has been ...Read More | |||
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Fein: Adopting New Standards of Safety | 11/01/2018 | |
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| Source: Lewis Fein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The duty of insurers is not to deny the need for new standards but to dedicate themselves to standardizing new — and superior — levels of safety. ...Read More | |||
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Young: An Interesting Approach | 10/31/2018 | |
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| Source: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Recently I became aware of an interesting experiment by State Compensation Insurance Fund. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: Duty of Care vs. Utilization Review | 10/30/2018 | |
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| Source: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Worker's Malpractice Action Against UR Doctor Comes to an End is WorkCompCen...Read More | |||
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Langham: I Am Not Available | 10/29/2018 | |
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| Source: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I had a recent inquiry that returned my attention yet again to the notice of unavailability. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Who's Investing in Work Comp Services Now? | 10/26/2018 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Several years ago it was smaller private equity firms who bought companies for $75 million to $200 million, built them up and sold them off. Then it was the bigger PE firms that put together a couple of these and hoped to sell them for more than they paid, and were mostly successful....Read More | |||
