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California Workers' Compensation Institute
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Despite Recent Declines, Opioids Continue to Top the List of California Workers’ Comp Drugs
Oakland - The use of opioids in California workers’ compensation has declined in recent years, along with the associated payments, yet these potentially addictive painkillers remain the number one therapeutic drug group used in the system according...
Julius Young
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
McCool
Can an insurer submit medication prescription requests to utilization review (UR) even where those medications have been repeatedly authorized before? That question has been hotly debated in California workers’ comp circles after a recent WCAB...
Roger Rabb
over 7 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...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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WCRI Studies Show 75 Percent of Injured Workers Get Opioids, But Don’t Get Opioid Management Services
Two new studies published by Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) show that on average three out of four injured workers in the United States receive opioid prescriptions for pain relief following workplace injuries and that generally...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Federal: Massachusetts Federal Court Strikes Down State Regulation Limiting Sale of New Opioid
A federal district court, indicating that state lawmakers “may not use vague regulations to sidestep or countermand federal law” for opioid dispensing, has struck down two Massachusetts regulations that would ban or limit sales of Zohydro...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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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...
Robin E. Kobayashi
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Innovations in Workers’ Compensation Regulation From the IAIABC Conference, 2016
By Elizabeth Connellan Smith, Counsel, Verrill Dana LLP, Portland, ME Innovation isn’t always the first word associated with the regulation of workers’ compensation, but innovation was in the forefront of the Commissioners and Associate...
Julius Young
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Why California Workers’ Comp Is So Hard to Manage: A Snapshot of the 52nd Annual CWCI Conference
If one was trying to track hot topics and trends in California workers’ comp, a good place to start would have been a recent March conference in Oakland attended by many prominent stakeholder representatives. Oakland’s Marriott Hotel was...
LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff
over 12 years ago
Workers' Compensation
News Headlines
PMSI and Ameritox Launch Program to Enhance Quality and Effectiveness of Opioid Therapy
TAMPA , FL and BALTIMORE, MD – PMSI, one of the nation’s largest providers of specialty products and services for the workers’ compensation market, and Ameritox, the nation’s leader in pain medication monitoring solutions, today...
LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff
over 12 years ago
Workers' Compensation
News Headlines
Drug Tests Often Give False Positives, Certain Opioid Drugs Not Screened
NEW ORLEANS, LA - At a recent American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting, Dwight Smith, MD, of Boston Medical Center, gave a presentation on how drug abuse tests often give inaccurate results and how most standard drug tests don't screen...