Industry Insights
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Moore: Medical Networks Key to Employee Health and Savings | 02/23/2018 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Workers' compensation medical networks have always provided a large return on investment. Injured employees receive the best medical treatment, and the employer cuts its workers comp costs. ...Read More | |||
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Boddicker: Comp Reform Bills of Interest Introduced | 02/22/2018 | |
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| By: Daniel J. Boddicker | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| House Bill 5240 is an effort from the workers' compensation gurus at the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce that amends the state Workers' Compensation Act to require a recipient of some pain management medications to sign a written agreement with the prescribing physician,...Read More | |||
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Langham: Comparing Funding Processes | 02/21/2018 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| There are different ways to fund workers' compensation systems. This post compares North Carolina's model to Florida's. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Temps Who Don't File Comp Claim Can Sue Special Employers | 02/20/2018 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: WI | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It seems that in Wisconsin, the exclusive remedy rule, which prevents an employee from suing his employer in tort, isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Stone Point Buys Genex — Again | 02/16/2018 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Case management/bill review/utilization review/independent medical exam company Genex has been re-purchased by Stone Point Capital. Stone Point sold the business to Apax in 2014. ...Read More | |||
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Young: Apportionment Based on Genetics | 02/15/2018 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| How significant will the concept of apportionment based on genetics become? ...Read More | |||
| Grinberg: Medical Exam Sufficient to Proceed to Trial | 02/14/2018 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Awhile back, I asked questions (as I often do) about Labor Code section 4061(i): How does this work? Section 4061(i) provides, after all, that “no issue relating to a dispute over the existence or extent of permanent impairment and limitations resulting from the injur...Read More | |||
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Keefe: 7th Circuit Botches Traveling Employee Concept | 02/13/2018 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A plaintiff worked for Etihad Airways, a publicly owned airline owned and operated by the government of the United Arab Emirates. ...Read More | |||
| When it Stinks | 02/12/2018 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The workplace can be a challenge. There is work to be done, deadlines to meet, and challenges to face. And, there are coworkers. Sometimes they assist with the tasks and sometimes they can add to the challenges. Over the years, the subject of perfume and cologne has become the subject of sarcasm ...Read More | |||
| Narrowing The Scope of Oregon Traveling Employee Coverage | 02/09/2018 | ||
| By: Kelsey Fleharty | |||
| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The recent Oregon Court of Appeals’ decision in Beaudry v. SAIF[1] represents a welcome departure from the broad coverage given in past court decisions to traveling employees engaged in personal activities. In Beaudry, the court upheld the Board’s determination that cla...Read More | |||
