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	Daddy, Can we Reform Workers' Comp in Illinois?		05/11/2012
	By: Eugene Keefe
	State: IL | Segment: | 221 | 0
	Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office lays out a seminal report with crucial recommendations for her father, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan for needed workers' compensation reform. Some of these recommendations will affect current handling of claims for Illinois state workers and ...Read More

	Drug and Alcohol Intoxication Not Always a Losing Case		05/02/2012
	State: NV | Segment: | 198 | 0
	A blog post  by Thomas A. Robinson for Lexis Nexis ...Read More

	Denial of Workers' Comp Claim May Form the Basis of a RICO Claim		04/25/2012
	By: Robert Meyers
	State: MI | Segment: | 218 | 0
	Executive Summary: The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a group of transportation workers have a property right in their entitlement to workers' compensation benefits under Michigan law, and that the denial of their workers' compensation claims may form the basis for RICO clai...Read More

	Determining Medicare Status		02/06/2012
	By: Mark Popolizio
	State: NA | Segment: | 394 | 0
	Determining a claimant’s Medicare status is an integral part in evaluating one’s compliance obligations under the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute (MSP). When a claimant is identified as a Medicare beneficiary, several MSP compliance considerations come into play: Medicare, Medicaid, and...Read More

	Dual Persona Doctrine not an Exemption to Exclusive Remedy		12/15/2011
	By: Kevin J. Cooper
	State: PA | Segment: | 393 | 0
	In Soto v Nabisco, Inc., et al., 2011 WL 5831369 (Pa.Super.), 2011 PA Super 249, released on Nov. 21, 2011, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld the decision of the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County which dismissed Roque Soto’s third-party liability claim based upon the employer ...Read More

	December Case Law Update		12/13/2011
	State: CA | Segment: | 432 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
	The following is a summary of important updates to California workers' compensation law.EMPLOYMENTIn County of Kern v. WCAB (Petersen) (2011) 76 CCC 1037, the Court of Appeal held that a volunteer firefighter with a local nonprofit fighting organization was a county emplo...Read More

	Debate on Access to Care Lacks Validation		06/29/2011
	State: NA | Segment: | 233 | 0
	By David J. DePaoloWorkCompCentralAccess to medical care (or impairment thereof) is often cited when a state imposes either regulations (California change to RBRVS) or statutes (Illinois' most recent "reform") that either restrict or cut medical fees.But does this r...Read More

	Despite Toscano, Claimant Must Show Causal Connection for TPD		06/15/2011
	By: Michael Rabinowitz
	State: FL | Segment: | 172 | 0
	By Michael RabinowitzBanker Lopez GasslerAfter the release of the Toscano decision (see my analysis here), there has been a mad rush to judgment among the claim...Read More

	Drug Testing in Workers' Comp: We Need More, not Less		06/02/2011
	State: NA | Segment: | 436 | 0
	By Joe PadudaCompPharma and Health Strategy AssociatesIn the online edition of Risk and Insurance, fellow work comp consultant Maddy Bowling authored a piece focused on a rapidly growing segme...Read More

	Duncan is 'Nonsensical'		03/29/2011
	State: CA | Segment: | 277 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	By David GrantBradford & BarthelOn Dec. 10, 2010, the California 3rd District Court of Appeal for the Third District reversed the WCAB holding that a cost of living adjustment (COLA) applies commencing January 1 of the year after the injury. See Allied Waste Industries, Inc. v....Read More