Industry Insights
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Wickert: High Court Applies Nebraska Law in Conflict-of-Law Case | 03/26/2019 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One year ago, the Arizona Court of Appeals announced that A.R.S. § 23-1023 was not a statute of limitations under state law, with regard to the requirement that an employee must file a third-party action within the first year after an accident or obtain a “reassignment” from the ...Read More | |||
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Fish: High Court Upholds Record-Setting Retaliatory Discharge Verdict | 03/25/2019 | |
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| Source: Mike Fish | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On March 1, the Alabama Supreme Court issued its opinion regarding the largest retaliatory discharge jury verdict ever recorded in the state. ...Read More | |||
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Gunn: Real or Fake? Revealing Workers' Compensation Fraud | 03/22/2019 | |
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| Source: Stacey Gunn | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Security cameras in a company cafeteria recently captured a brazen attempt to fake a workers’ compensation injury. ...Read More | |||
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Uribarri: Settlement Alternatives for Claims Involving Medicare Beneficiaries | 03/21/2019 | |
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| By: Zane P. Uribarri | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| What are your options when an Medicare set-aside has derailed your settlement discussions or complicated resolution of a claim with a Medicare beneficiary? ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Is That Lien Stayed? | 03/20/2019 | |
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| Source: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Keeping track of which lien claims are stayed or subject to special lien proceedings is a full-time job, thanks to the plethora of criminal proceedings in California. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Democracy, Deodands and the British Birth of the Grand Bargain | 03/19/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| While I generally accept Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor’s narrative holding that workers’ compensation arose in the U.S. as a grand bargain among multiple stakeholders, around 1911, the labor law professor/historian in me has doubted organized employee partic...Read More | |||
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Anders: April 1 Brings Electronic Payment Option to MSPRP | 03/18/2019 | |
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| By: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a March 13 webinar, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provided a high-level overview of the electronic payment option to be added to the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP) effective April 1. ...Read More | |||
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Thompson: AI for WC Claims: Humble Pie in the Sky | 03/15/2019 | |
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| By: Barry Thompson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Let’s slice pie from the sky and seriously consider artificial intelligence's role in workers’ compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
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Burns: The Myths of Lifetime Medical Benefits | 03/14/2019 | |
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| By: Michael P. Burns | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Whether settlement is via stipulated award or compromise and release, one of the most common impediments for defendants is valuing exposure for lifetime medical care. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Fear of Better Options | 03/13/2019 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Most of us have seen, and maybe used, the acronym FOMO. It means "fear of missing out." FOMO is the fear of making the wrong decision about how to spend your time, particularly after you've seen internet stories about others doing better. ...Read More | |||
