Industry Insights
| SAWCA Announces National Regulators Roundtable | 06/05/2013 | ||
| By: Workers Compensation Institute | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Editor’s Note: The 68th annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference (WCEC), held by the Workers' Compensation Institute, will be held Aug. 18-21 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. This article is part of a series highlighting some of the upcoming sessions....Read More | |||
| Safety in Home Health Care | 05/30/2013 | ||
| By: Steve Bills | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| When people talk about safety in the health care field, many immediately think about hospital safety, but there is another facet of health care to consider Normal 0 ...Read More | |||
| Sedgwick CEO David North to Keynote Workers' Comp Conference | 05/29/2013 | ||
| By: Workers Compensation Institute | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Editor’s Note: The 68th annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference will be held August 18-21 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Presented by the Workers’ Compensation Institute, the WCEC is the largest gathering of its kind in the nation and offers discipline-s...Read More | |||
| Schwarzenegger's Workers' Comp 'Reform' Killed my Client | 05/23/2013 | ||
| By: Ernest A. Canning | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In a white paper issued in March, the California Federation of Labor called for reforms to "undo the damage" wrought by Senate Bill 899, a California GOP-sponsored workers' compensation "reform" bill that was touted by the Associated Press in April 2004 as “one of the biggest victories of ...Read More | |||
| Setting Aside a Form 60 | 04/22/2013 | ||
| By: Julia S. Hooten | |||
| State: NC | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Dennis Ray Spivey was employed by Wright’s Roofing as a laborer for approximately three years. Wright’s Roofing contracted with AMS Staff Leasing, who provided workers’ compensation coverage for its employees whose employment had been reported to AMS. Spivey completed forms require...Read More | |||
| SB 626 (Beall) Tackles SB 863 (DeLeon) | 04/18/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Senate Bill 626 (Beall) is to be heard on April 24 by the California state Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee chaired by the Hon. Ted Lieu. We recommend support.SB 626 is prompted by the passage and implementation of SB 863 (deLeon) from last year. SB 863, woefully tilted to...Read More | |||
| Spinal Surgery Requests and the SB 863 Gap | 03/19/2013 | ||
| By: Timothy W. Rose | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In an attempt to simplify the ever-confusing workers’ compensation world in the great state of California, our legislative branch drafted Senate Bill 863 in 2012. With the stroke of his pen, Gov. Brown enacted sweeping legislation, with effective and varying start dates for various provisions ...Read More | |||
| SB 626 Restores Equity and Balance to Workers' Comp | 02/27/2013 | ||
| By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| "How to Practice Medicine without a License" was the title of my op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 29, 2008. The inequities described in that piece have been operative ever since, but now legislation by Calif. state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, Senate Bill 626, will try to restore balance...Read More | |||
| Smart Phone Recordings: Double Standard from the Petitioner's Bar? | 01/17/2013 | ||
| By: Shawn R. Biery | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| We recently had an inquiry regarding a petitioner, at the request of his counsel apparently, surreptitiously recording the interaction and discussions during an independent medical examination. It is unclear to the writer if the M.D. didn’t put two and two together until after the exam as he d...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court to Consider 'Mailbox Rule' | 01/07/2013 | ||
| By: Kirk Jenkins | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Our preview of the civil cases to be heard by the Illinois Supreme Court during the upcoming January term concludes with G...Read More | |||
