Workers' Compensation News
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Bradford & Barthel: Addressing Multiple Body Parts, Post-Kite | 09/19/2019 | |
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| By: Bradford & Barthel | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 381 | 1 | |||
| Following the 2013 decision in Kite v. Athens Administrators (2013) 78 CCC 213 (writ denied), applicant’s attorneys have attempted to take full advantage of this method of increasing total permanent disability ratings without increasing the level of actual impairment allocated to ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Where Have All the WC Opioids Patients Gone? | 09/18/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 321 | 0 | |||
| Workers’ comp has done an admirable job reducing the volume and potency of opioids dispensed to work comp patients. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Combined Ratio Means Market Extremely Healthy | 09/17/2019 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: VA | Segment: Top | 271 | 0 | |||
| Workers' comp combined ratio remained a hot topic from last year. Last week, at the NCCI Virginia State Advisory Conference, the workers' comp combined ratio stunned the audience, and even the NCCI presenters. ...Read More | |||
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Luna: Employers, Work Comp Stakeholders Sound Off | 09/16/2019 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 467 | 0 | |||
| The nation’s largest workers’ compensation community came together recently in Dana Point, California, to attend one of the country’s more prominent trade conferences. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Work Comp's Ongoing Soft Market | 09/13/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 227 | 0 | |||
| Work comp rates continue to drift ever lower, with new declines announced pretty much every week. While this is great for employers and taxpayers, the impact on insurers, third-party administrators and the work comp ecosystem is rather less than “great.” ...Read More | |||
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Fitzpatrick: Medical Malpractice and Workers' Compensation Subrogation in the Golden State | 09/12/2019 | |
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| By: Peter V. Fitzpatrick | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 500 | 0 | |||
| One of the quirks of California workers’ compensation law is that insurance carriers cannot subrogate against medical malpractice lawsuits. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: A Mediation Quiz | 09/11/2019 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 460 | 0 | |||
| Find out how much you really know about mediation with this short true/false quiz. ...Read More | |||
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Nassif: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Through Prevention | 09/10/2019 | |
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| By: Ron Nassif | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 697 | 0 | |||
| On Sept. 3, the California Legislature passed Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 64, which designates September as Opioid, Heroin, Fentanyl and Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Chronic Pain, Opioids and Workers' Comp | 09/09/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 348 | 0 | |||
| The hammer is starting to fall on the opioid industry, and the repercussions are echoing through the comp industry. ...Read More | |||
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Ko: Are Employers Liable After Authorization of Treatment? | 09/06/2019 | |
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| By: Gina Ko | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 254 | 0 | |||
| To authorize or not to authorize? Gina Ko ...Read More | |||
