Industry Insights
| You Couldn't Make This Up | 07/06/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Empty | |||
| By Julius YoungBoxer & GersonSometimes we see stuff in workers' comp so bizarre, you just shake your head. They couldn't make this stuff up no matter how hard they try.Such it is with the 3-cent appeal.Unhappy with the award of a credit for an ov...Read More | |||
| Yet Another Attempt to Shift CMS Costs | 03/24/2010 | ||
| By: Jon Gelman | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jon GelmanThe American Insurance Association (AIA) and collateral Industry groups have banned together in a formal attempt to avoid the Federal mandate to reimburse Medicare for conditional medical payments. This is yet a third assault on the responsibility of employers to avoid payme...Read More | |||
| Your Drug Costs Are Going Up | 11/20/2009 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaThe chances of some variety of health insurance reform passing are looking more likely and big pharma is getting ready.By raising branded drug prices 9% (so far) this year, and this at a time when the Consumer Price Index fell by 1.3%.You may recall t...Read More | |||
| You Get What You (Don't) Pay For | 05/21/2008 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Joe PadudaWith a case load of 160 lost-time claims, how does any workers comp claims adjuster have any time to "manage" any case?That's the point Bob Kulbick, CMO at Cypress Care (HSA consulting client) made in a talk last week, a point I've been thinking about sin...Read More | |||
| Your government at work -- worker injury research you can actually use. | 11/27/2007 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| A cornerstone of Lynch Ryan’s work for more than twenty years, a long-held mantra, has been that employees who work for good employers -- employers who care for their workers and show it by the way they treat them -- report all work injuries when they happen, get expeditious treatment and retu...Read More | |||
| Your Job or Your Life: Popcorn Lung Comes to Wisconsin | 11/04/2006 | ||
| By: Jordan Barab | |||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Jordan Barab This is sickening. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a two part series about how the "popcorn lung" tragedy has hit the state of Wisconsin, "'Killer Butter' Puts Illinois Worker's Life in Precarious State," and "Struggling for air: Flavoring chemical tied to se...Read More | |||
| You Can't Get Film Unless You Go Where They Go | 06/17/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Fraud is an ever present factor throughout the world of insurance. Workers' Compensation may have the strongest attraction to those inclined to cheat the system due to the legal mandate requiring universal coverage. Whatever the reason, there is plenty of fraud in "them thar Workers' Comp hills" and...Read More | |||
| You Must Fight Fire with Fire; Admissible Evidence | 08/17/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The workcompcentral.com Professional Forums continue to be a ripe resource for instructive materials. The following are excerpts from a recent on line discussion in the Forums on ...Read More | |||
| Your Medical Destiny is Within Your Control | 07/06/2003 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Click on the "Employer" tab on this site and you'll find a lot of discussion about medical control. The fight for medical control during the first 30 days following a work injury is critical to the employer for contr...Read More | |||
