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	August 2015 Case Law Update		08/06/2015
	State: CA | Segment: Top | 436 | 0
	EMPLOYMENT In Noe v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (2015) 80 CCC 534, the 2nd District Court of Appeal held that LC 226.8, which prohibits the willful misclassification of individuals as independent contractors, is not limited to employers who make the misclassification decision, b...Read More

	A Flight of Fancy: Air Ambulance Fee Disputes in Workers' Comp		07/24/2015
	By: James M. Loughlin
	State: NA | Segment: Top | 1581 | 0
	Injured workers are sometimes transported by air ambulance helicopter due to their injuries. The transport may either be from the scene of an injury to a hospital or from one hospital to another for a higher level of care. Recently, the number of fee disputes over the amount of reimbursement owed...Read More

	A Primer on Insurer Profits		07/20/2015
	State: NA | Segment: Top | 357 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	The profitability of workers' compensation has attracted a lot of attention of late.  In part, that’s because the insurers have been celebrating. The NCCI’s state of the line report in 2014 said that the insurance market was “in balance” after a streak of ...Read More

	Aging and Injury: The latest Evidence		07/06/2015
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	The workforce has indeed been aging. In contrast to younger age groups, the workforce participation rate of those over 55 is increasing. In 2000, the 10% of lost-time injuries were sustained by workers 55 years old or older. Today, it’s 20%, and the share will continue to grow. Ther...Read More

	Are immigrant Workers Safe?		05/26/2015
	State: NA | Segment: Top | 305 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	A young, immigrant and undocumented worker in an above-average injury job is not a situation anyone would prefer to be in.  A recent report zeros in on some of these workers. This month, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the American Society for Safety Eng...Read More

	April 2015 Case Law Update		04/02/2015
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	BUSINESS OF INSURANCE In Chavarria v. Vasquez, dba JRV Construction, 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 35, the WCAB held that an insurer remained liable for workers' compensation benefits to an injured worker even though it had a pending civil action for rescission of a worker's com...Read More

	Appellate Court Nails another One		03/25/2015
	By: Shawn R. Biery
	State: NA | Segment: Top | 236 | 0
	The Illinois 5th District Appellate Court ruled the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, not the Circuit Court, has exclusive jurisdiction to decide whether a claimant who settled a third-party lawsuit resulting from a work-related accident may also pursue workers' compensation bene...Read More

	Anticipating the Future		03/16/2015
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	A very cold Vermont winter suddenly broke in early March. Maple syrup lines are flowing.  In another kind of spring awakening, a surge of seemingly unrelated challenges question if workers’ compensation’s "Grand Bargain" should be saved or abandoned. There&rsquo...Read More

	Apportionment and SIBTF: Acme Steel v. Bowman		03/04/2015
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	When California Labor Codes 4663 and 4664 were changed pursuant to Senate Bill 899 it was understood by the legal and medical stakeholders that major changes in applicable case law were in the making and that the issue of apportionment was about to become even more difficult than it already was. ...Read More

	A Wellness Smell Test		02/10/2015
	By: Barry Thompson
	State: NA | Segment: Top | 267 | 0
	Here is a wellness needs-analysis to help you choose the best approach for your company. ...Read More