Industry Insights
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Wong: Significant Board Decisions Refresher: Industrial Injury | 09/30/2021 | |
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| By: Sara Wong | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Washington law defines an industrial injury as “a sudden and tangible happening, of a traumatic nature, producing an immediate or prompt result, and occurring from without, and such physical conditions as result therefrom.” ...Read More | |||
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Moreno: A Grim Reality: Latinos Affected Most by COVID-19 | 09/29/2021 | |
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| By: Cynthia Moreno | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| No organization of lawyers in California represents more immigrant workers than CAAA. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Plan to Return to In-Person Trials Remains Unchanged | 09/28/2021 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| The community is abuzz with nervousness as we all watch the approach of Oct. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: NCCI Forum Shows Rate Change Disparities | 09/27/2021 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance's Arizona State Advisory Forum is worth the time to view or read. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Comments on Conduent | 09/24/2021 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As we march through the list of big, bigger and likely gonna-be-biggest workers' comp services entities, we are now at the single service providers. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Extended QME COVID Regs | 09/23/2021 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Are we all planning on attending the Zoom public hearing at 9 a.m. Friday regarding proposed changes to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board regulations? Rumor has it that the news regarding ...Read More | |||
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Moreno: More to Come | 09/22/2021 | |
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| By: Cynthia Moreno | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Last week, California voters unanimously voted not to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. It wasn’t much of a surprise, given the polling numbers as election day approached. ...Read More | |||
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Young: The Cost of Doing Business | 09/21/2021 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| California workers’ comp is an expensive system to operate. That has been a frequent focus of this blog over the years. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Physical Therapists as Primary Treatment Providers | 09/20/2021 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: ND | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Workers' comp physical therapists have received a huge amount of good press over the last two months. I had always thought that physical therapists could treat certain injuries from the onset. ...Read More | |||
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Tolbert: Most Physicians Fail to Fully Explain Kite | 09/17/2021 | |
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| By: Kenneth Tolbert | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Since the 2013 decision in Athens Administrators v. WCAB (Kite), doctors have found ways of increasing total permanent disability by adding disabilities rather than using the Combined Values Chart (CVC). ...Read More | |||
