Workers' Compensation News
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Salem: Board Affirms Opinion on Admissibility of 'Self-Taught' Expert's Testimony | 10/18/2019 | |
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| By: Jane Salem | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 146 | 0 | |||
| The Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals Board affirmed a trial court decision denying a motion in limine that sought to exclude an expert’s deposition testimony because the physician had no training in use of the American Medical Association’s Guides, and stated at one po...Read More | |||
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Moore: Are You A Drive-By Network User? | 10/17/2019 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 102 | 0 | |||
| Workers’ compensation medical network usage tends to be the drive-by type. What do I mean by drive-by? ...Read More | |||
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Young: Newsom's First Workers' Comp Veto | 10/16/2019 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 265 | 0 | |||
| Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed his first workers’ comp bill, AB 346. ...Read More | |||
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Akkarachittor: How Machine Learning and AI Can Help Reduce Risk | 10/15/2019 | |
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| By: Pramod Akkarachittor | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1506 | 0 | |||
| Risk management is integral to insurance, but it’s traditionally been an inexact science. Thanks to recent technological advances, however, risk management is about to get a long overdue upgrade. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: The Misunderstood Waiver of Subrogation Endorsement | 10/14/2019 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 174 | 0 | |||
| The waiver of subrogation endorsement appears in almost all workers’ comp policies. Almost all workers’ comp personnel and insureds do not ever read any policies. Who wants to read 40 pages of droning on when the dec page covers everything one needs to know concerning a pol...Read More | |||
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Switzer: Bureau Revises Petition for Benefit Determination | 10/11/2019 | |
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| By: Kenneth M. Switzer | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 170 | 0 | |||
| In the recent Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision Vickers v. Amazon.com, the board observed that it is “unclear” why the email address to file a petition for benefit dete...Read More | |||
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Moore: Value-Based Care, Centers of Excellence Are Matched Pair for Work Comp | 10/10/2019 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 217 | 0 | |||
| If a provider mixes value-based care and centers of excellence, the result may be what workers' comp has been searching for in the last 40 years. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: The Importance of Facts | 10/09/2019 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 194 | 0 | |||
| A big part of a mediator’s job is to elicit and isolate relevant facts. Then we can determine points of agreement and disagreement. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What's Up With California Work Comp? | 10/08/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 330 | 0 | |||
| Friend and colleague Alex Swedlow took the podium at the California Self-Insurers’ Association Fall Employer Summit to discuss what’s going on in the Golden State, and what you need to do to manage your program. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Evolving Mechanism of Injury Opens Door for Defense | 10/07/2019 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 313 | 0 | |||
| Have you heard the case of Ndiawar Diop? ...Read More | |||
