Industry Insights
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Grinberg: Email Service of QME Reports Regs | 03/11/2022 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Today I bring you an update regarding medical-legal evaluations. Proposed changes to Rule 36.7 would make electronic service of medical-legal reports permanent (rather than allowing for this as an emergency regulation). ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Employee Status: Not a New Problem | 03/10/2022 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Fresh off a presentation on the gig economy at an ABA function, and in preparation for a lecture I will be delivering to my students, I am inspired to reproduce the language of a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court lab...Read More | |||
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Snyder: CMS' New Approach to MSAs | 03/09/2022 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Ten years ago, the LexisNexis Legal Newsroom for Workers' Compensation Law published my article “Four Reasons to Avoid the CMS Approval Process for MSAs.” You can find an abstract of that article on my ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Is Workers' Comp Insurance Regressive or Progressive? | 03/08/2022 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We received an emailed question from a junior at a local college: Is workers' comp insurance regressive or progressive, similar to our income tax system? The student was writing a research paper assessing whether workers' compensation insurance was just another tax on employers when ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Do Zero Claims for Current Policy Year Mean Instant Savings? Not Exactly. | 03/07/2022 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I came across this situation recently while reviewing a loss run with an agent. The question by the agent was: If his insured client was having zero claims for the current policy, will that reduce premiums instantly? ...Read More | |||
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Geaney: Superior Court Can't Compel Plaintiff to File Claim Petition in WC Division | 03/04/2022 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The case of Brian Smith v. Township of South Hackensack addressed an unusual procedural question seldom, if ever, seen befor...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Legislature Mulls Presumption Bills | 03/03/2022 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| California state lawmakers are currently considering two bills that would create a broad presumption for hospital employees and extend Senate Bill 1159’s COVID-19 presumptions. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: More of the Same From Sacramento | 03/02/2022 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Aside from the various COVID-19-related presumption laws, shortening investigation periods from the 90 days afforded under Labor Code Section 5402 to 30 or 45 days (depending on the applicable section), defendants are already hard-pressed to properly investigate a claim within the ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Workers' Compensation and the Right to Personal Security | 03/01/2022 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The following is an abstract of my most recent academic article on workers' compensation: ...Read More | |||
| Guibert: Defense Collaborative Kicks Off First Event Since Start of COVID Pandemic | 02/28/2022 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Defense Collaborative kicked off a two-day event at the Tampa Bay History Center called “Speed Dating With Risk and Insurance Professionals." About 50 people attended the first event the collaborative has held in person since the beginning of the pandemic. ...Read More | |||
