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Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Nebraska: Injured Employee Fails to Show Spinal Cord Stimulator Is Necessary Medical Expense
An employer need not pay the cost of supplying an injured employee with a spinal cord stimulator where both the employee’s testimony and that of the employer’s medical experts indicated the stimulator did not alleviate the pain associated...
Roger Rabb
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Research on Risks, Effectiveness of Long-Term Opioid Pain Therapy Given a Failing Grade
Roger Rabb, J.D., Special Correspondent for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter As physicians continue to prescribe opioids such as Vicodin, OxyContin, and codeine to help patients with chronic pain, there is a growing concern that...
Robin E. Kobayashi
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Pain in the Heartland
Far too often we hear about pill mill doctors who are shut down or even arrested. Rachel Aviv’s article “ Prescription for Disaster ” ( The New Yorker , May 5, 2014) (subscription only) provides insight into the disturbing details of...
Robin E. Kobayashi
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Up in Smoke: How Employers Are Using Disclosures in Medical Marijuana Cards to Defeat Claims for Workers’ Compensation
Employers are scoring victories by using injured workers’ disclosures in their medical marijuana cards to help defeat claims for workers’ compensation benefits. Note: Trial level decisions, while not binding authority, often deal with cutting...
Cassandra Roberts
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Oh, the Pain of Inadequacy: Chiropractor Trumps Doctor in this Delaware Utilization Review Appeal
Today's post comes to us from Walt Schmittinger, offering up the outcome of a UR appeals case tried to the Board in Milford two weeks ago. The appeal was from a UR non-cert of chiropractic care with Dr. Michael Gandolfo. Here is what Walt had to say...
Karen C. Yotis
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Workplace Policies on Medical Marijuana: Some Guidance on the Complex, Chameleon-like Legal and Medical Issues Involved
Karen C. Yotis, Esq., a Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers’ comp world. How risky would it be if your mailroom...
Roger Rabb
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Medical Marijuana Use as An Alternative to Opioid Use for Relief of Chronic Pain
A Michigan Survey Suggests That Medical Marijuana Patients Are Decreasing Opioid Use to Treat Chronic Pain Two topics that have received a great deal of attention in recent years regarding the medical treatment of chronic pain have been the use and...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Strong Correlation Between Nonopoid Substance Abuse Disorders and Therapeutic Opioid Addiction
Patients with such disorders 28 times more likely to become addicted to opioids Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , is a leading commentator and expert on the law of...
Robert G. Rassp, Esq.
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Pain Disorders and the New DSM-5
By Robert G. Rassp. Esq. “Pain is relevant to mental impairment, since mental illness may change the perception of pain, for example, making it the object of an obsession or a somatic (bodily) expression of an emotional problem. However, it can...
Ronald Balter
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
100th Anniversary of New York Workers’ Compensation Law
By Ronald E. Weiss, Esq. and Ronald Balter, Esq. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the enactment of New York’s Workers’ (then Workmens’) Compensation Law. It is well known that the death of so many workers in the horrific Triangle...
John Stahl
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
IAIABC Policy Guide on Reducing Opioid Abuse Offers Blueprint for Effective Reform
The bad news is that opioid abuse related to treating chronic pain remains a serious problem for every workers’ compensation system participant. The good news is that many workers’ compensation jurisdictions are increasing their efforts to...
John Stahl
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Survey Says Regulators Must Be More Assertive Regarding Opioid Use
By John Stahl, Esq. A November 12, 2013 webinar that peer review and drug management firm CID Management of Westlake Village, California sponsored summarized the results of a CID survey of front-line employees and executives in the workers’ compensation...
Jennifer Jordan
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Medicare Secondary Payer Law: 2013 in Review
I have come to realize that there are no easy solutions for the MSP problems we face in claims because the MSP is not the problem. Our MSP issues are collateral damage of more systemic societal problems we face as a nation. We clearly do not know how...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California: Opioid Medications in the Treatment of Work-Related Injuries
According to the Department of Industrial Relations Director Christine Baker, “ opioid misuse is a national concern ”. As a result of this “misuse”, the Division of Workers’ Compensation recently posted proposed “ Guidelines...
Robert G. Rassp, Esq.
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Opioids – The Grand Debate
An examination of ACOEM’s newly revised opioid practice guidelines for treatment of pain By Robert G. Rassp, Esq. We hate statistics but policymakers can’t live without them. For example, 100 million residents of the United States...
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