Industry Insights
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Moore: 10 Ways to Cause Huge Reserves | 06/05/2018 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Most workers' compensation reserve increases can be controlled by employers. Let us see how employers cause huge ones. Some of these come from the Six Keys to Saving on Workers...Read More | |||
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Duff: Murphy Oil and an Even Slipperier Slope of Forced Arbitration | 06/01/2018 | |
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| Source: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Supreme Court’s May 21 ruling in Murphy Oil/Epic Systems/Ernst & Young may be read narrowly as an opinion holding that the National Labor Relations Act d...Read More | |||
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Goldstein: Effort to Add Transparency to MSP Reporting Information | 06/04/2018 | |
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| By: Jean S. Goldstein | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Recently, Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-Florida) and Ron Kind (D-Wisconsin) introduced legislation (HR 5881) in the House of Representatives to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act, specifically in an effort to provide for transparency of Medicare Secondary Payer reporting information. ...Read More | |||
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Webb: Key Ruling on Who Is a Contractor | 05/31/2018 | |
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| By: Mark Webb | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Sometimes you’re the disruptor. Sometimes you’re the disrupted. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Predictive Analytics Is Now the Opioid Buzzword Replacement | 05/30/2018 | |
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| Source: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Predictive analytics for workers' compensation claims that adjusting still has not proven itself as a cost saver. Please note that I am referring to workers' compensation only. ...Read More | |||
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Young: Jumping the Gun | 05/29/2018 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has jumped the gun in posting proposed changes to the California workers’ compensation Medical-Legal Fee Schedule. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Opioids, Marijuana, Pain and Workers' Comp | 05/25/2018 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance's Raji Chadarevian discussed opioid utilization, price and cost at NCCI’s recent Annual Issues Symposium 2018. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: Malpractice Case May Soon Be Decided By Supreme Court | 05/24/2018 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Malpractice reform in utilization review is again on the line, this time because the California Supreme Court has scheduled hearings Ki...Read More | |||
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Duff: Will Arbitrators Decide the Scope of the Gig Economy? | 05/23/2018 | |
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| Source: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| My colleague and co-editor of this blog, Judge David B. Torrey, pointed out to me recently that several of the gig “worker” contracts contain mandatory binding arbitration provisions. Preliminary to the question of whether a worker is an employee is the question of who makes that...Read More | |||
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Luna: It's About Time Feds Focus on States' Success in War on Opioids | 05/22/2018 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The House of Representatives has held numerous information-gathering meetings in D.C. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hosted a recent event on May 8. ...Read More | |||
