Industry Insights
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Duff: Handyman Special or New Flavor of Opt Out? | 04/06/2018 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Tennessee recently passed a law that will undoubtedly make it significantly easier for companies to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees, thereby lowering their operating costs and creating a class of individuals with fewer legal protections when suffering on-th...Read More | |||
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Kass: Suing Premium Schemers Earns Paycheck | 04/04/2018 | |
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| By: Dennis B. Kass | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 2 | |||
| A workers' compensation insurer’s audit reveals that the 10-person clerical business the insurer thought it covered actually is a 100-person window-washing firm, specializing in high-rise buildings. That can be dangerous work, high up on the scaffolding. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: IME Background Letters in U.S. Work Comp Claims | 04/03/2018 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I have been in workers' compensation defense litigation almost four decades. One unusual trend that has developed in the last five years or so is the concept of IME providers that set up independent medical exams and take away such concerns from adjusters, nurse case managers and WC...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Beryllium Exposure Standard Enforcement Delayed Until May | 03/30/2018 | |
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| Source: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Trump administration has yet again delayed the implementation of a stricter standard for occupational exposure to beryllium. The new date for enforcement is May 11, 2018. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: White May Not Be Case to Cite for Workers' Compensation Quid Pro Quo | 03/29/2018 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I (and many others) have argued that, in the Supreme Court’s decision, New York Central Railroad Company v. White (1917), the court implicitly held that a state’s workers’ compensation b...Read More | |||
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Young: Not Even a Mention | 03/28/2018 | |
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| Source: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| An eagerly awaited 2018 report on the future of health care in California fails to mention workers’ compensation at all. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Recovering Workers' Compensation Lien Out of Legal Malpractice Award | 03/27/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| There is little law in California regarding the subrogation/reimbursement and/or future credit rights of an employer or workers’ compensation carrier when an employee makes a third-party recovery because of legal malpractice in the handling of the employee’s attorney. ...Read More | |||
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Luna: Are More Americans Suicidal Because of Opioids? | 03/26/2018 | |
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| Source: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It is becoming more apparent that pain medications may be dangerous for more than one reason. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
