Industry Insights
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Grinberg: WCAB Rejects Psych PD, Places Burden on Applicant | 06/06/2022 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In the panel case of Sosa v. Race Engineering Inc., applicant claimed injury to his hand, psyche, internal system, skin, gastrointestinal system and sleep as a result of an admitted injury, but defendant accepted only the hand. ...Read More | |||
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Burk: Advice to Employers in Dealing With Dependency, Lifetime Benefits | 06/03/2022 | |
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| By: Maura Burk | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| What happens if an employee dies during the pendency of the open and ongoing workers’ compensation claim? The answer to this depends on a few factors. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Fraudster Spotted Working the Morning of Her Deposition | 06/02/2022 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I bring you the story of another “successful” fraud prosecution, this one of Yeimi Espinoza, as reported by WorkCompCentral. ...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Dual Employment Status Bars Double Recovery | 06/01/2022 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| An employee may have dual employers but ultimately can receive only a single recovery from only one employer for work-related injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Budgeting Mistake Made With X-Mods | 05/31/2022 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A frequent workers' comp budgeting mistake I see at least quarterly is when a low experience modification increases or decreases significantly. Most of the time, the budgeting mistake comes when a lower mod increases to what would be considered another lower mod. ...Read More | |||
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Young: Framing Reform Discussions | 05/27/2022 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This may be a year for significant California workers’ comp reforms. The last major reforms were a decade ago, in 2012, under Gov. Jerry Brown. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Court Rejects Attempt to Limit Carrier's Reimbursement to 'Like Damages' | 05/26/2022 | |
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| By: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: VA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Trial lawyers in Virginia have been trying for decades to convince the state’s courts to rule that a workers’ compensation carrier is not subrogated to non-economic damages awarded or recovered in a third-party tort action. On March 29, the latest such effort was turned away by the Vi...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Derivative Injuries Update | 05/25/2022 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The California Supreme Court has had a flurry of activity on derivative injury cases lately, largely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: NCCI Annual Issues Symposium 2022: Day 2 Sessions | 05/24/2022 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The second day of the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium 2022 started with Bob Hartwig, University of South Carolina professor. Hartwig covers the most data in the shortest amount of time. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: NCCI Annual Issues Symposium 2022: Day 1 Sessions | 05/23/2022 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The recent NCCI Annual Issues Symposium 2022 in Florida kicked off with my missing some of the morning sessions due to a medical issue. Cristine Pike, communications director at NCCI, was kind enough to keep me up to date on the presentations until I arrived at the conference. ...Read More | |||
