Industry Insights
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Paduda: Opioids: Bad News and Good | 03/23/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Patients taking opioids over the long term don’t go back to work, yet many long-term opioid patients can be weaned off opioids within two years. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Can Employer/Claims Handler Put Claimant Back to Light Work at Charity? | 03/22/2018 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I am asked this question all the time. We had a reader send us a brilliant article by an excellent Illinois defense attorney, Jessica Bell, that was publ...Read More | |||
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Drummond: Court Denies Mandamus Relief From Restrictive HIPAA Order | 03/21/2018 | |
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| By: Charley M. Drummond | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On Feb. 23, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals released its opinion in Ex Parte Alabama Gas Corporation, denying Alagasco’s petition for writ of mandamus wherein it sought relief from a particularly restrictive HIPAA order entered by the trial court. ...Read More | |||
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Jacobsmeyer: Sanity Prevails at 4th DCA | 03/20/2018 | |
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| By: Richard M. Jacobsmeyer | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The 4th District of the Court of Appeals has reversed a puzzling Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision that had awarded total temporary disability benefits beyond five years from the date of injury, ignoring the plain language of Labor Code 4656(c)(2). ...Read More | |||
| Mullen & Filippi: About the Court of Appeal's Pike Decision | 03/19/2018 | ||
| By: Mullen & Filippi | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On March 6, the California Court of Appeal issued its decision in County of San Diego v. WCAB (Pike), holding that for injuries on or after Jan. 1, 2008, an injured worker is not entitled to recei...Read More | |||
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LeFevre: Confusing the Role of Treatment Guidelines and Formularies | 03/08/2018 | |
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| By: Phil LeFevre | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Clients and partners have asked for an official ODG response to the latest blog by Ca...Read More | |||
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Wilson: What Do Medicare Part D, Medicare Set-Asides and Parenting Have in Common? | 03/15/2018 | |
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| Source: Rita Wilson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| For those who have raised children or are in the process of doing so, one of our biggest challenges is to instill in our children some sort of positive decision-making paradigm. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Birth Defect Claims Not Blocked by WC Exclusive Remedy | 03/14/2018 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We consider this article required reading for the insurance/claims industry. ...Read More | |||
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Young: Revisiting Single Payer | 03/13/2018 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In 2017 there was quite a flap in the California Legislature over a single-payer health care bill. That bill, SB 562, known as “The Healthy California Act,” passed the California Senate in June by an essentially party-line (23-17) vote. ...Read More | |||
| Grinberg: Good-Faith Personnel Action Fails to Bar Claim | 03/12/2018 | ||
| Source: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In Kirby v. Contra Costa Water District, applicant claimed to have sustained a psyche injury related to work under the supervision of two of defendant’s supervising employe...Read More | |||
