Industry Insights
| Zachry: Best Practices for Claims Departments to Maximize the Effectiveness of an Audit | 01/19/2021 | ||
| By: Bill Zachry | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As a claims supervisor, I reacted very poorly to my first workers' compensation claims audit. I went through the familiar stages that one does when first audited: ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Haven Healthcare's Demise Offers Lessons for Workers' Comp | 01/15/2021 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Haven Healthcare, the Amazon-JPMorgan-Berkshire Hathaway joint venture intended to reinvent health care, is no more. The quest to improve access to primary care, simplify insurance coverage and make prescription drugs more affor...Read More | |||
| Mussack: How to Apply COLA to Lifetime Benefits | 01/14/2021 | ||
| By: Tim Mussack | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| With the arrival of the new year, it’s time to bust out our calculators and prepare and update cost-of-living adjustments. As of Jan. 1, all continuing permanent total and life pension benefits (70% PD or greater) for date of injuries of Jan. 1, 2003, and later should be increa...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Remote Mediation for Non-English Speakers | 01/13/2021 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You’re ready for your remote video mediation. Everyone has the latest version of the technology and knows how to join. You rehearsed with your client; maybe you did a practice session with the mediator. You submitted the mediation confidentiality form and contact form. Now you can concentra...Read More | |||
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Castillo: A Fate No Worker Should Suffer | 01/12/2021 | |
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| By: Michael Castillo | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Fatal occupational injuries in California rose again to their highest level in 11 years, recording more than 400 deaths for the second year in a row and further exposing the inequities faced by Latinx and older workers. ...Read More | |||
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Walls: Perils of Pandemic Premium Audits | 01/11/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Walls | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Because workers’ compensation premiums are usually driven by employer payroll, carriers audit the payroll figures to ensure that the worker classifications are accurate and that the premiums reflect the covered risks. ...Read More | |||
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Fish: Attorney General Says Vaccination Side Effects Are Covered by Comp | 01/08/2021 | |
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| By: Mike Fish | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| At least, that was the opinion of the Alabama attorney general on Feb. 3, 2003. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: CT Claim Barred by Statute of Limitations | 01/07/2021 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Now that we’ve all gotten over our glow and inclinations toward goodwill to all mankind and are back to being the cynical, cold-hearted naysayers of the workers’ comp world (or is that just me?), I would like to share with you one of my many gripes with the workers’ comp wo...Read More | |||
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Salem: Let's Ban Some Words | 01/06/2021 | |
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| By: Jane Salem | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| When you grow up the daughter of an English teacher alongside six siblings who all earned a degree in one form or another in English, well, you become a grammar nerd, whether or not you like it. ...Read More | |||
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Castillo: A New Year's Resolution | 01/05/2021 | |
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| By: Michael Castillo | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| While the state Legislature continues to address the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re hoping to carve out space to tackle a long-standing problem plaguing injured workers: reducing delays in medical treatment. ...Read More | |||
