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Workers' Compensation News
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SB 626 (Beall) Tackles SB 863 (DeLeon)
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04/18/2013
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By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann
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State: CA | Segment: | 497 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Senate Bill 626 (Beall) is to be heard on April 24 by the California state Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee chaired by the Hon. Ted Lieu. We recommend support.SB 626 is prompted by the passage and implementation of SB 863 (deLeon) from last year. SB 863, woefully tilted to...Read More
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Spinal Surgery Requests and the SB 863 Gap
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03/19/2013
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By: Timothy W. Rose
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State: CA | Segment: | 613 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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In an attempt to simplify the ever-confusing workers’ compensation world in the great state of California, our legislative branch drafted Senate Bill 863 in 2012. With the stroke of his pen, Gov. Brown enacted sweeping legislation, with effective and varying start dates for various provisions ...Read More
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SB 626 Restores Equity and Balance to Workers' Comp
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02/27/2013
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By: Dr. Robert L. Weinmann
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State: CA | Segment: | 644 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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"How to Practice Medicine without a License" was the title of my op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 29, 2008. The inequities described in that piece have been operative ever since, but now legislation by Calif. state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, Senate Bill 626, will try to restore balance...Read More
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Smart Phone Recordings: Double Standard from the Petitioner's Bar?
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01/17/2013
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By: Shawn R. Biery
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State: IL | Segment: | 721 | 0
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We recently had an inquiry regarding a petitioner, at the request of his counsel apparently, surreptitiously recording the interaction and discussions during an independent medical examination. It is unclear to the writer if the M.D. didn’t put two and two together until after the exam as he d...Read More
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Supreme Court Reaffirms Arbitrator's Autonomy
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12/28/2012
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By: Joseph C. Nuzzo Jr.
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State: NA | Segment: | 658 | 0
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed a long-standing rule that an arbitrator must decide the validity of the terms contained in any employment contract or agreement containing a valid arbitration clause....Read More
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of TTC Benefits to Retired Employee
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12/04/2012
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By: Lisa G. Whittaker
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State: OH | Segment: | 493 | 0
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The Ohio Supreme Court issued a decision in State ex rel. Rouan v. Indus. Comm. in October making it clear that employees who retire, and thereby remove themselves from the workforce, for reasons unrelated to their workers' compensation claims are ineligible to receive Temporary Total Compensati...Read More
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Supreme Court Saves Patient's Life
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12/03/2012
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State: PA | Segment: | 434 | 0
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court saved a patient's life last week. Interestingly, the court accomplished this great feat by doing nothing. Linda Turner was injured on the job in December of 1987. She underwent two surgical procedures and was diagnosed, over a number of years, with arac...Read More
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SB 863 Enacts Independent Medical Review System
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10/29/2012
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State: CA | Segment: | 751 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Signed by the governor on Sept. 18, Senate Bill 863 brought in a host of changes that affect the business and litigation processes in the world of workers’ compensation. These changes were designed to address a host of problems that have been brewing since the passage and implementation of Sen...Read More
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Sugar: Bad for Consumers, Deadly for Workers?
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10/18/2012
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State: NA | Segment: | 546 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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It would be pretty hard to avoid the news about sugar: it's bad for us. Diets high in sugar contribute mightily to the nation's burgeoning problems of obesity and diabetes and may even be a factor in dementia. But sugar in its crop form is also proving to be deadly. The cause and effect, how...Read More
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