Industry Insights
![]() |
Duff: COVID Culture Wars and Workers: Stuck in the Middle Again | 11/23/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: Michael C. Duff | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 980 | 0 | |||
A frozen yogurt dealer in Durango, Colorado, offered customers discounts for not wearing masks. Someone in town thereafter apparently got upset and busted out the dealer’s front window. He, in response, apparently affixed a sign to his establishment: “I shoot to kill.”...Read More | |||
![]() |
Langham: A Half-Billion Dollars | 11/20/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: David Langham | |||
State: FL | Segment: Top | 342 | 0 | |||
The 2019-20 Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims Annual Report is published. It documents that attorney fees in Florida workers' compensation increas...Read More | |||
![]() |
Grinberg: WCAB Provides Guidance on Transferring Injured Worker Into MPN | 11/19/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 368 | 0 | |||
One might think a medical provider network is like a Facebook, only for physicians and such. But it’s not. It’s actually a method of medical control for defendants in workers’ compensation cases. ...Read More | |||
![]() |
Duff: The Proposition 22 Gig Hustle: Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls | 11/18/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: Michael C. Duff | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 399 | 0 | |||
I have arrived at the point in my torts course when we discuss the distinction between “employees” and “independent contractors.” ...Read More | |||
![]() |
Duff: Supreme Court Upholds Governor's Emergency COVID Executive Actions | 11/17/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: Michael C. Duff | |||
State: KY | Segment: Top | 294 | 0 | |||
A “brisk,” 92-page opinion is reducible for my purposes to two propositions. First, the executive generically has broa...Read More | |||
Young: What We've Been Sayin' | 11/16/2020 | ||
By: Julius Young | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 413 | 0 | |||
Applicant attorneys have been sayin’ it for years… treatment delays often lead to higher workers’ comp costs. ...Read More | |||
![]() |
Moore: Advocacy Model vs. Workers' Comp Adjuster Goals | 11/13/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: James Moore | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 385 | 0 | |||
I recently attended a webinar provided by the National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference where some of the adjuster goals were compared to the expectations of claims management. ...Read More | |||
![]() |
Moore: Premium Audit Dispute Delay Can Be Very Costly | 11/12/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: James Moore | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 389 | 0 | |||
Over the last 13 years that I have been writing articles for the J&L website, I have warned very heavily against any type of premium audit dispute delay. Delaying a dispute of or ignoring a bill from your current or prior carrier often turns into money lost from your company’s budg...Read More | |||
![]() |
Snyder: A True Fairy Tale About Causation | 11/11/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: Teddy Snyder | |||
State: NA | Segment: Top | 399 | 0 | |||
Once upon a time, there was a really big product liability case. Actually, a whole bunch of product liability cases. ...Read More | |||
![]() |
Grinberg: WCAB Rejects Ogilvie Claim | 11/10/2020 | |
---|---|---|---|
By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
State: CA | Segment: Top | 404 | 0 | |||
My best efforts to be elected president have come to naught. We ran a tough campaign, but it turns out that a workers’ compensation defense attorney who is not eligible to serve as president for a variety of reasons just doesn’t make a very appealing candidate. ...Read More | |||
