Industry Insights
| Issues Regarding Service Dogs | 06/17/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The following is an adaptation from a thread post in the California Injured Workers Forum. The editors felt the material was of interest and relevant to the audience, so it has been republished here with identifiable information redacted and edited for gramm...Read More | |||
| Impact of Medications on Medicare Set Asides | 04/22/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Pre-1/1/06 WCMSA and Post-1/1/06 WCMSA and the Impact of Medications As most of you know, effective 1/1/06 all workers'compensation Medicare set asides submitted to CMS for review and approval must contain a prescription drug component. The CMS Policy Memo outlining complian...Read More | |||
| Intoxication no Bar to Benefits if Employee is a Chronic Alcoholic | 03/25/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| by Matt Wrigley Clarence Saffold v. Treasurer of the State of Illinois as Ex Officio Custodian of the Second Injury Fund, 2005 Ill. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 550, July 1, 2005. Susan O. Piggot and James F. DeMunno, comprising a two-member majority of Panel A of the Illinois Worke...Read More | |||
| Is The Use Of 'The Guides' Mandatory In Rating Permanent Disability? | 02/11/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By David DePaolo Is the use of the AMA Guides in the determination of permanent disability in California mandated by law or regulation? What if the Guides are not substantial evidence of the level of impairment from a work injury? A collective gasp is now audible throughout th...Read More | |||
| Illinois Reform Impressions - 4 Months Later | 11/05/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| by Michael RusinWe have a new Workers' Compensation Act signed by the Illinois Governor July 20, 2005. Many of the provisions of the new Act went into effect July 20, 2005, but the effects of the new Act are being felt only gradually. Many of the changes of the new Act are not sched...Read More | |||
| Installation of Security Cameras = Labor Law Claim | 09/25/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| INSTALLATION OF SECURITY CAMERAS IS A BUILDING ALTERATION, QUALIFIES AS A LABOR LAW CLAIM Turner v. ISR Solutions, NYLJ 8/23/05 (Supreme Court, New York County) (YORK, j) On September 22, 2003, while installing wiring for a security camera system in the Social Serv...Read More | |||
| Injured Workers Need A Lawyer... | 07/16/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| by Charles R. Wear Some say that since the workers' compensation system has been reformed that injured workers will not need an attorney to help with their claim. Nothing could be further from the actual situation. The following are the top 3 reasons that injured workers need lawyers....Read More | |||
| It Depends on What the Definition of Is, Is... | 06/04/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Charles R. Wear, Attorney at Law Words are important. What they mean is even more important, especially when it comes to interpreting the meaning of a statute. The new permanent disability schedule will cut permanent disability awards to injured workers. Applicant attorneys will try to have ...Read More | |||
| Interpreters for Medical Treatment | 03/12/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The following article was authored by a respected California work comp expert who desired to remain anonymous, but who was moved to comment from a legal perspective on the controversy reported earlier in the WorkCompCentral News concerning the challenge to interpreting fees in medical treatment sett...Read More | |||
| Injured Workers, Second Opinions & MPNs | 01/02/2005 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Recently, someone whose intellect, intelligence, and knowledge of the law I highly respect, and who, unbeknownst to him, I consider to be my mentor, put a bee in my bonnet. He asked me my thoughts regarding a situation we will certainly be seeing commonly starting in 2005. The question p...Read More | |||
