Industry Insights
| Workplace Fatality Statistics Show Promising Trend | 09/13/2013 | ||
| By: Ellen Keefe-Garner | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a preliminary report indicating a total of 4,383 fatal workplace injuries were reported in the U.S. in 2012. This number represents a decrease in the number of workplace deaths since 2011. In fact, the 2012 total is the second lowest since such totals...Read More | |||
| What's Odd about this Picture? | 09/06/2013 | ||
| By: Julie Ferguson | |||
| State: WY | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Delaine Davis has been sentenced to four to six years in Wyoming Women's Center jail. Her crime was workers' compensation fraud of $11,072. She knowingly collected workers' comp benefits while being gainfully employed in another job. In addition to her jail term, she was ordered by Judge...Read More | |||
| What Rhymes With Bloated Bureaucracy? | 08/21/2013 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Last week, Gov. Pat Quinn announced the appointment of three new arbitrators who will join the 27 sitting Illinois workers' compensation arbitrators, bringing the total to 30. As observers for Illinois business and with respect to these new workers, we don’t feel our stat...Read More | |||
| Why Do Docs Dispense Meds to Work Comp Patients? | 07/10/2013 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute report on physician dispensing in Georgia post-reform is stuffed with insights into physician behavior and motivators thereof.In April 2011, the Peach State ca...Read More | |||
| What is 4850 Time? | 07/05/2013 | ||
| By: Kia Myers | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As a former police officer, I am quite familiar with this term. However, many people are not, due to the specific application to a limited number of individuals in the labor force as a whole. “4850 Time” refers to Labor Code § 4850, which provides up to one year of leave of absence ...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp Looking Up? | 05/24/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Dennis Mealy, chief actuary for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, has issued his state of the line report on workers' compensation. There's a lot of good news for insurers, along with a few little red flags that might well morph into big banners of bad news. Mealy's present...Read More | |||
| When Is a Lien Not a Lien? | 05/20/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Southern California Workers’ Compensation system has been plagued by a glut of lien claims, which in recent years has reached crisis proportions, choking the system and forcing local offices to farm lien hearings to outlying offices having no nexus whatsoever to the case at hand. In an und...Read More | |||
| What if this Is Not the Correct Carrier? | 05/09/2013 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| I receive periodic complaints from carriers. They note their receipt of “numerous Petitions” from claimants' attorneys with their company erroneously listed as the carrier or third-party administrator.I receive periodic requests from claimants' attorneys asking that a...Read More | |||
| WCAB Issues 2 (Sort of) New Decisions on Lien Activation Fees | 05/02/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| On April 25, the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board issued one new and one “upgraded” decision regarding payment of lien activation fees under Labor Code § 4903.06. On April 5, the WCAB had issued a significant panel decision in ...Read More | |||
| WCAB Issues Significant Panel Decision on Lien Filing Fees | 04/16/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Pay up.We want to see your money on the barrellhead.In life one of the big things is just "showing up." Now it turns out that's not enough. If you are a lien claimant you really do have to "pay up."No more showing up at conferences without proof of your paymen...Read More | |||
