Industry Insights
| VR/RTW Issues | 11/04/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno <b>SJDB Voucher - FAQs</b> <i>I have a claim with a date of injury 9/2/99 with a CT ending in 2005. Is he due VR/VRMA or a voucher?</i> Assuming the applicant continued working at his U&C occupation until ...Read More | |||
| Voc Rehab FAQs | 08/05/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno DWC Administrative Director Carrie Nevans responded to one of the items in our June newsletter: "Dear Allen – I’ve got a comment I wanted to pass on to you, but first I wanted to complement you on the excellent newsletter you produce. I...Read More | |||
| Vacation Injury Work Related for Police Officer | 05/19/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| --By Richard M. "Jake" JacobsmeyerIt is certainly not unusual to see the courts extend extra deference to public safety officers coming before court with arguments that for most of us would be a real stretch as employment related activities. Such a stretch was made by the 2nd Appellate D...Read More | |||
| Voc Rehab/Return to Work Issues | 05/07/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan LenoIn last month's column, I noted that a revised DWC regulation (9810(c)) would require that Supplemental Job Displacement Benefits Notice of Potential Rights (10133.52) and the voucher (10133.57) must be sent to the eligible applicant on plain paper and not on the insurer...Read More | |||
| Voc-Rehab, Return-to-Work Issues | 04/08/2008 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan LenoState Sen. Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, has introduced SB 1189 which is intended to allow claims administrators to provide the Supplemental Job Displacement Benefits (SJDB) voucher to eligible injured workers within 74 days of the permanent and stationary date when employ...Read More | |||
| Voucher Does Not Provide Funds for 'Tools of the Trade' | 09/08/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno The Bureau for Private Post-secondary Vocational Education ceased to exist as of midnight June 30, 2007. However, the statute (Labor Code Section 4658.5(a)) still requires schools to be certified by a state agency in order to be eligible for payment of tuition and fees via...Read More | |||
| Vocational School Approvals -- What Do We Do Now? | 08/11/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno The Bureau for Private Post-secondary Vocational Education (BPPVE) ceased to exist as of midnight June 30, 2007; you may have noticed that the school certification portion of BPPVE's web site is no longer available. This leaves students, schools, and payers in a quandary -...Read More | |||
| Violence in the Workplace, part 3 | 04/21/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Editor's note: This is the third part in a series of columns on workplace violence. By Jamie Charter According to a nationally recognized gang expert Patrick McCarthy, there are an estimated 25,000 gangs throughout the U.S. and gang activity is on the rise. Gang memb...Read More | |||
| Voluntary Abandonment, Termination and TTD Compensation | 02/24/2007 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| State ex rel. Gross v. Industrial Commission, 112 Ohio St.3d 65 A recent decision issued by the Ohio State Supreme Court has some employers and many claimants overreacting. The Court issued its decision on December 27, 2006, in State ex rel. Gross v. Industrial Commission. By w...Read More | |||
| VR/RTW Issues | 12/30/2006 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| By Allan Leno Effective 10/21/06, insurers, third party administrators, and self insured/self administered employers must offer regular work via DWC AD Form 10003 Notice of Offer of Regular Work to injured employees who have been released to full duty before taking the 15% credit against ...Read More | |||
