Industry Insights
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Weinmann: Duty of Care vs. Utilization Review | 10/30/2018 | |
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| Source: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Worker's Malpractice Action Against UR Doctor Comes to an End is WorkCompCen...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: SB 790 Bites the Dust | 09/21/2018 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Our decidedly negative story on Senate Bill 790 about gifts and ben...Read More | |||
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Wickert: State Reverses Itself on Post-Settlement Trials | 09/19/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: AZ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In Arizona, a workers’ compensation carrier’s statutory lien under § 23–1023 is subject to being reduced if an employer is found to be negligent by a jury. ...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: UR Physicians Do Not Owe Injured Workers 'Duty of Care' | 09/18/2018 | |
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| By: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| That utilization review physicians do not owe a duty of care to injured workers can reasonably be deduced from the recent California Supreme Court decision that trashed Kirk King's tort claim over an in...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Subrogable: Is It or Isn't It a Word? | 09/13/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary Wickert | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We are just as guilty as everyone else. Gar...Read More | |||
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Weinmann: KP Public Affairs Assumes Advocacy at CSIMS | 09/05/2018 | |
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| Source: Robert Weinmann | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery (CSIMS) aligned with AdvoCal-represented private physicians engaged in industrial or occupational medicine for 37 years. ...Read More | |||
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Wyatt: When Less Is More | 08/14/2018 | |
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| By: Thomas Wyatt | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Just as doctors rarely have professional relationships with healthy people, judges don’t often see cases where the workers’ compensation system works. ...Read More | |||
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Wagner: Combatting the Infiltration of Chiropractic PQMEs | 08/02/2018 | |
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| By: Kimberly R. Wagner | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| One of the farthest reaching and most litigated effects of SB 899 is the alteration of the panel qualified medical evaluator process. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Subrogation Adjusters Can Now Sign Medical Expense Affidavits | 07/17/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A generation ago, subrogation professionals were almost unheard of. Over the years, however, as prudent businesses and insurance companies began to insist on their statutory and contractual rights of subrogation, the profession has grown. ...Read More | |||
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Wickert: Future Credit in Third-Party Recovery Applies Only to Indemnity Benefits | 07/03/2018 | |
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| Source: Gary L. Wickert | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A long-standing controversy in Pennsylvania workers’ compensation subrogation has been resolved, and resolved in a manner most unfriendly to Pennsylvania small businesses and the entire workers’ compensation industry. ...Read More | |||
