Industry Insights
| PFR Maine: Simplest Chance for Major System Redesign? | 09/28/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
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| Initiatives to radically change the 100-year-old workers’ compensation system are growing, despite the daunting state legislative barriers of status quo defenders and inertia. Now it turns out that Maine has a statute on its books that offers a strikingly direct and unclut...Read More | |||
| Prevent Double Dipping! | 07/14/2015 | ||
| By: Nathan S. Bernard | |||
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| It's imperative workers' compensation settlement contracts or commission decisions clearly reflect credit to be taken from the final payment. In the Estate of Burns v. Consolid...Read More | |||
| Phones May Be Smart; Users – not so much | 06/29/2015 | ||
| By: Nancy Grover (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| For all our knowledge and good intentions, we humans tend to be a stupid bunch. We do lots of dumb things we know perfectly well are not good for us; eat the wrong foods, smoke, stay up too late, drive too fast, etc. A recent study demonstrates the latest idiotic thing many of us do: completely d...Read More | |||
| ProPublica, Indiana, and the Problem with Perception | 04/06/2015 | ||
| By: Nancy Grover (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Perception can be a dangerous thing. One need look no further than Indiana to see that. The religious freedom restoration act signed by Gov. Mike Pence last month created an impression that screamed the message, INDIANA HATES GAYS! Major companies rebelled. Angie's List promised to cancel exp...Read More | |||
| ProPublica's Demolition of Workers' Comp | 03/06/2015 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Yesterday ProPublica published the first in what is apparently a series of articles on the workers' comp systems around the country. This first effort focused on "reforms" and gene...Read More | |||
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Private Cause of Action under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act | 02/25/2015 | |
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| By: Daniel Hayes | |||
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| We all know that before finalizing a settlement in a workers' compensation claim, the parties need to determine whether Medicare has already made any payments and, if so, whether there is a conditional payment lien. The obvious risk in not addressing conditional ...Read More | |||
| Parties Must Protect their Due Process | 02/06/2015 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A couple of recent decisions around the country have provided reminders of the confines of the adversarial process and how much process is due. A worker alleges an injury. The employer denied compensability. The employer alleged that during the litigation, the worker sought and received m...Read More | |||
| Perfecting a Florida Workers' Compensation Lien | 12/17/2014 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims is paperless, or nearly so. While there are a few judges who keep some small volume of paper files for convenience, the digital record and database is the official record of the OJCC. When a document is filed, there has to be some place on the c...Read More | |||
| Physicians and Painkillers: A Tale of 2 Statistics | 12/11/2014 | ||
| By: Michael Gavin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| See if you can reconcile the following two sets of data points from a survey published by the Journal of the American Medical Association last week regarding physician perceptions of prescription drug abu...Read More | |||
| Predictions and Politics | 10/14/2014 | ||
| By: Michael Gavin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The latest study from the California Workers' Compensation Institute suggests that implementation of a Texas-like or Washington-like formulary could produce substantial savings in the California work comp system on the order of $124-$420 million. I was extremely impressed with the det...Read More | |||
