Industry Insights
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Keefe: When Riding a Zombie Dragon, Try Not to Get Eaten | 10/05/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| As part of making a permanent impairment or workers' compensation claim, some claimants and their attorneys encourage high medical bills to make “special damages” respectively high for settlements. I feel that strategy, like the zombie dragon from "Game of Thrones,&...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Do We Really Need So Many WC Arbitrators? | 09/29/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Almost as fast as I stopped whining about the secret process to select Illinois workers' compensation arbitrators, I learn we just added two more. ...Read More | |||
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Kirsch: Iowa Legislature Responds to Call for Reform of Workers' Compensation Act | 09/15/2017 | |
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| By: Ashton T. Kirsch | |||
| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa legislature has finally acted on the call by Iowa business groups to overhaul the state's workers’ compensation system. For years, they have claimed that the state’s system has tilted unfairly toward injured workers and significantly raised employers’ costs. Ma...Read More | |||
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Keefe: My Illinois Workers' Comp Arbitrator Wish List | 09/13/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Illinois government is closing in on a financial turning point. The way things have been done in the past may not get our nutty state government to the future. I truly feel we have to start doing things better and more effectively if we are to have any hope or expectations at all. ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Could MLB's Approach to Saving Arms Cut Workplace Injuries? | 07/18/2017 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Teams are strategically using an offseason change to Major League Baseball’s disabled list rules to prevent more significant injuries among pitchers. This has implications that the world of workers’ compensation could learn from. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Ready for Even Higher Taxes Next Year and for Years to Come? | 07/11/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Last week, the Illinois General Assembly, led by House Speaker Michael Madigan, raised our state income tax to 4.95% to raise about $5 billion in new money from you, me and business. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Gov't Will Continue to Financially Struggle for Decades to Come | 07/06/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Watching the mess that has gone on and continues in Springfield, one has to wonder if there is any chance it is ever going to calm down and fly along traditional lines of state government. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Can the General Assembly Reach a Capitol Compromise? | 06/20/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| We are advised that several folks in Spring-Nuts, I mean Springfield, came to the realization that our state government’s lack of a budget for the last several years was causing irrevocable financial damage with threats to continued government viability. If the dysfunction continued, one co...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Math on Wage Loss Differential Forever Changed | 06/13/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| You can’t ignore the ever-rising Cook County minimum wage ramp when calculating wage loss differential claims in Illinois workers' compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Could This Be the Dumbest Reform in History of Work Comp? | 05/31/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| My amazing brother Joe has been in comedy for decades. Whenever it comes to politicians, he always recommends you vote for the funny ones. When politics eventually get boring, and they always do, Joe points out that you can always laugh at the funny politicians. ...Read More | |||
