Industry Insights
| Young: Facts and Fiction | 12/23/2022 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| How can we separate fact from fiction in workers’ compensation? What sources do we trust? And what should we trust when it comes to workers’ comp? ...Read More | |||
| Kamin: Taking Care with Medicare Set-Asides and Conditional Payments | 12/22/2022 | ||
| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| All parties in the California workers’ compensation system should avoid the temptation to cut corners when it comes to Medicare, especially in lieu of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act and the tremendous powers it affords to the federal government. ...Read More | |||
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Kamin and Adil: Dependents and Dancing With the DWD | 12/21/2022 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin and Amir F. Adil | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Plotting a path forward on death claims strategy can be full of uncertainty, especially when it’s unclear whether there are any dependents. ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Could Employer-Mandated COVID Sick Pay Become a Thing of the Past in 2023? | 12/20/2022 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Based on recent statutory and regulatory changes, it is very possible that employers will no longer be liable for COVID sick pay in 2023 and beyond. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: X-Mod Projections Are a Budget Helper | 12/19/2022 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I have been asked to provide numerous types of experience modification projections over the years. Why do them? Let us look at an example. ...Read More | |||
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Platta: Potential Changes in Workers' Comp Law for 2023 | 12/16/2022 | |
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| By: Slawomir Platta | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker ... Labor is the only source of wealth. — Eli Siegel ...Read More | |||
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Geaney: Explosion in Personal Vehicle Held Compensable | 12/15/2022 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One of the most interesting workers’ compensation cases in a long time is Van Sciver v. Jersey Mechanical Contractors Inc. There are layers of legal issues in this case, which involved a very serious accident injuring...Read More | |||
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Coleman: Joinder: The More, the Merrier | 12/14/2022 | |
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| By: Lauren M. Coleman | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As parties rush to settle their cases during the jolly days of settlement season, one key question to ask when settling cumulative trauma claims is whether all potential co-defendants have been joined. ...Read More | |||
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Cleveland: The Statute of Limitations for Latent Injury Discovery | 12/13/2022 | |
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| By: Karen Cleveland | |||
| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In Alabama, all disputed workers’ compensation claims are handled through the regular court system. Alabama is the only remaining state to handle disputed claims in this manner. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Solving 'Problems' by Making Bigger Ones | 12/12/2022 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Leave it to some misguided folks in the California Legislature to come up with solutions to non-problems — solutions that will do more harm than good. ...Read More | |||
