Industry Insights
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Moore: The Value of Field Case Managers | 05/07/2021 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Thursday was National Nurses Day. In celebration, I wanted to bring up a subject that I have seen overlooked in quite a few workers' comp files: field case managers. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Comp's Culture of Catastrophizing | 05/06/2021 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| At the height of the COVID crisis last year, some research organizations, brokers/consultants and “thought leaders” were gravely forecasting how awful this was going to be for workers’ comp. ...Read More | |||
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Young: Keep on Truckin' | 05/05/2021 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Workers have won a big victory in the federal courts, as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that AB 5 can be enforced against the California trucking industry and is not preempted by a law known as the Federal Aviation Authorization Act of 1994. ...Read More | |||
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Fruin: Where Are We With State's New IME rules? | 05/04/2021 | |
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| By: Shawna G. Fruin | |||
| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In 2020 and 2021, there was a lot of action in Washington’s Legislature surrounding the rules for when and how employers can obtain independent medical examinations in workers’ compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
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Anders: Updated CMS Policy Changes Medicare Set-Aside Seed Calculation | 05/03/2021 | |
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| By: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| On April 19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide, Version 3.3, which made a slight but notable addition to how the MSA seed amount is calculated. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Right Way to Think About Buying WC Services | 04/30/2021 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Here’s how to think about price and service. Hint: Getting it right requires taking the time to dig deep. ...Read More | |||
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Geaney: Supplemental Benefits for Surviving Dependents of Essential Workers | 04/29/2021 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Last week, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Troy Singleton and Dawn Addiego. The bill...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Statute of Limitations Bars MVA Claim | 04/28/2021 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It is a rare enough event to have the statute of limitations bar a claim. To start off, it is generally a “disfavored” defense because of the preference to have disputes resolved on the merits. ...Read More | |||
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Burns: AOE/COE and After-Hours Industrial Injuries | 04/27/2021 | |
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| By: Michael P. Burns | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In today's COVID environment, many employers have provided a large degree of flexibility for their employees to work from home or, alternatively, return to the office on a part-time basis. ...Read More | |||
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Lynch: Nursing Has Always Been Tough, but Now It's Even Harder | 04/26/2021 | |
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| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's incidence rate of work injuries (cases per 10,000 workers) for nurses is 12.7; for all o...Read More | |||
