Industry Insights
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Snyder: Change Your Approach to Change Your Result | 06/10/2020 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 211 | 0 | |||
| Having trouble concentrating? Affected by shelter-in-place orders to contain the COVID-19, overlaid with curfews activated by civil unrest following the death of George Floyd? Join the club. ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: WC Policy Rescission Actions Shouldn't Be Permitted at All | 06/09/2020 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 335 | 0 | |||
| In a non-precedential decision, the United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, has affirmed a district court ruling dismissing a workers’ compensation carr...Read More | |||
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Zachry: Sub Rosa in WC Claims | 06/08/2020 | |
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| By: Bill Zachry | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 423 | 0 | |||
| During the time of virus, there is an increased opportunity to effectively use sub rosa to impact the outcome of workers' compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
| Langham: Attorney Fee Legislation | 06/05/2020 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 539 | 0 | |||
| During the 2020 legislative session, I had multiple people mention their happiness that attorney fees were not on the agenda. There have been multiple discussions of attorney fees in workers' compensation since the Supreme Court imposed its reasonableness standard, which the Court originally ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: WCAB, Call Me! | 06/04/2020 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 410 | 0 | |||
| The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board announced last week that the telephonic appearance procedures will continue through the month of June. Electronic filing will continue as well. ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Mental-Mental Laws in All 50 States | 06/03/2020 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 312 | 0 | |||
| The law of mental stress causing mental disability, and its compensability under workers’ compensation (the law of the “mental-mentals”), has been the subject of considerable study. ...Read More | |||
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Jacobsmeyer: Appeals Court Provides Bright-Line Limitation to Hikida Application | 06/02/2020 | |
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| By: Richard Jacobsmeyer | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 152 | 0 | |||
| Since the early days after passage of Senate Bill 899 in 2004, the California Legislature’s intent in overhauling the statutes governing apportionment of permanent disability and the issue of direct causation and apportionment have been the subject of multiple decis...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What's Keeping Workers' Comp Execs Up at Night | 06/01/2020 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 401 | 0 | |||
| After 28 calls with workers’ comp execs over eight days it’s quite clear that many are very concerned about specific issues. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: A Moment on 4060 Exams | 05/29/2020 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 612 | 0 | |||
| I am guessing that your inbox is pretty saturated with coronavirus posts, articles, webinars, etc. Since California is looking at an exposure rate of 90,000 cases as of May 23, for a population of around 40 million, the odds of exposure at the moment are relatively low .225%. Maybe it&r...Read More | |||
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Duff: I Hate to Burst Your Bubble | 05/28/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 301 | 0 | |||
| The new Illinois workers' compensation COVID-19 presumption is actually three presumptions. The full text of the statutory language is ...Read More | |||
