Workers' Compensation News
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Keefe: A New and Blurring Part of WC Reforms
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05/18/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1816 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Chicago Democrat presented new Illinois workers' compensation reform legislation incorporating a “resource-based relative value scale,” or RBRVS, as the physician-health care payment system and a cost savings mega-plum for state employers and local governments....Read More
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Keefe: ADA, Comp Interact — and Sometimes Oddly Intertwine
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05/04/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 1117 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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At the suggestion of one of our readers, I want to provide some thoughts on this federal ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and typically state-run work comp concepts. Sometimes they work in unison and harmony, sometimes the results are odd.
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Keefe: Can't Legislate Causation in State Workers' Comp
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04/25/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1291 | 0
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Gov. Bruce Rauner, state Sen. Christine Radogno and other Illinois legislators were fighting to change “causation” in workers’ comp with an eye on saving billions for business and local government.
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Keefe: Holy Smokes! Firefighter Loses WC Claim
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04/19/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1225 | 0
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In an astounding development to all Illinois workers' compensation observers, a majority of the members of our very, very, very liberal Appellate Court, Workers’ Comp Division, joins with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission and lower court to deny a claim by an&n...Read More
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Keefe: Hacking May Change Workers' Comp Record-Keeping, Billing
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04/12/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 967 | 0
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If your financial stuff has ever been hacked, consider a challenging new statistic: By 2024, everyone in the U.S. may have had health care and workers’ comp data compromised if online theft keeps accelerating at the current pace.
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Keefe: Will Our Country Ever Be Smart Enough to Allow Dying With Dignity?
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04/04/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 1278 | 0
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I am on vacation in Jamaica and met a wonderful couple from Guelph, Ontario. They gave me the inside scoop on a new socio-legal development in Canada — dying with dignity. In short, if you or a loved one are suffering from a terminal condition, it is OK to follow the safeguards with yo...Read More
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Keefe: One Baffling Appellate Ruling After Another
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03/15/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 770 | 0
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With respect to the five members of the Illinois Appellate Court, Workers' Compensation Division and the Circuit Court judges who hear workers' comp appeals, I want to confirm my new position that our state would be better served to have our work comp claims adjudicated&nbs...Read More
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Keefe: Comp Commission Faces Shutdown Deadline
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02/01/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1270 | 0
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I had a reader tell me Illinois state government appears to be filling in for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that is soon to close. Everything that is happening in our state government appears to make our leaders look like clowns and teetering out of control.
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Keefe: Illinois Workers' Comp Reform Update
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01/24/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 2151 | 0
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The battle in Springfield continues to rage. Here are our thoughts along with the analysis/comments of the workers' compensation gurus at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. We like to tell all of our readers that chamber President Todd Maisch and his expert lobbyist, Jay De...Read More
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