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LexisNexis Workers Comp Law Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
National and State-by-State Workers' Comp News Roundup Powered by Larson's (9/4/2012)
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL NEWS: CMS Announces Coverage Change Re TENS Units Included...
cwci@aoldotcom
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Despite the Risks, Most WCMSA Plans Include Funds for Long-Term Opioid Use
Oakland – Nearly 70% of federally mandated and approved Medicare settlements for injured workers require funding for decades of opioid use, often at dangerously high levels and in conjunction with other high-risk drugs. Such a requirement exceeds...
LexisNexis Workers Comp Law Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Last Chance to Save! LexisNexis Community Members Discount at 21st Annual National Workers’ Compensation & Disability Conference
Just a few weeks left to get the special LexisNexis Community member discount on the National Workers' Compensation & Disability Conference ® , November 7 - 9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Because of our partnership with the conference...
LexisNexis Workers Comp Law Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
National and State-by-State Workers' Comp News Roundup Powered by Larson's (8/13/2012)
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL NEWS: MarketScout Report Shows Workers Comp Rates Increased...
Jennifer Jordan
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas Workers’ Comp vs. Medicare Secondary Payer Act: Will the Supreme Court Decide Which Will Prevail?
On August 8, 2013, Guadalupe Caldera petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take cert in his case against The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. Last spring, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District Court opinion finding that the...
Jennifer Jordan
over 10 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...
compwriter@gmaildotcom
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
2014 Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues
The new edition of Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (LexisNexis) is a veritable cornucopia of expert analysis, provocative commentary, and a 50 state survey of workers’ compensation legislation in 2014 As with last year’s...
LexisNexis Workers Comp Law Community Staff
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
8 Myths and Facts About Workers’ Compensation (August 2016)
The LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Workers’ Compensation Law has interviewed leading experts from different segments of the workers’ compensation industry to tell us some common myths and facts about workers’ compensation. Note that the myths...
Larson s Spotlight
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Federal: Bankruptcy Trustee Has No Claim to Worker’s MSA Held in Bank Account
A Federal Bankruptcy Court in Pennsylvania has held in relevant part that a Medicare Set-Aside is not subject to administration by a bankruptcy trustee because it is not property of the bankruptcy estate in spite of the fact that it might be held in a...
compwriter@gmaildotcom
over 4 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
United States: California’s Guaranty Fund For Insolvent Carriers Need Not Reim-burse CMS
Reversing a decision by a federal district court sitting in California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the California Insurance Guarantee Association (“CIGA”) need not reimburse Medicare for conditional payments Medicare had...
cwci@aoldotcom
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
CWCI Finds Use of Compounded Drugs in California Workers’ Comp Are Down, But Payments Are Up
New CWCI research shows that compounded drugs accounted for a declining share of California workers’ compensation prescriptions last year following reforms intended to contain the use and associated costs of these drugs and changes in how they are...
Robert G. Rassp Esq.
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
The Rassp Report
The Rassp Report, a law blog Robert G. Rassp, Esq. Author, " Lawyer's Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers' Compensation ," 2015 © Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender & Co. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friends Research...
John01950
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Rapid Growth and Lack of Oversight in California
By John Stahl, Esq. Concern regarding the relatively little public information about heavily utilized ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in California prompted the California HealthCare Foundation (Foundation) to research ownership statistics and other...
California Compensation Cases Staff
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Settlement Not Binding When CMS Never Approved Medicare Set-Aside: Cal. Comp. Cases October Advanced Postings (9/24/2015)
Here’s the latest batch of advanced postings for the October 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2015 LexisNexis. All rights...
Larson s Spotlight
over 12 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Larson’s Spotlight: Top 10 Cases for 2011 That You Should Know About
It’s time to look back on the past year’s top cases to help us identify possible national trends. While many of these cases are state decisions, there are far reaching implications to be found in each of them. Here’s our selection for...
California Compensation Cases Staff
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California Workers’ Comp Case Roundup (4/29/2016)
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 81 No. 4 April 2016 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California Official Medical Fee Schedule: The Death of the Extraordinary Circumstances Exception Post-2004
In what appears to be a case of first impression, the WCAB panel in Jaime Torres Tavera v. T and P Farms, Zenith Insurance Company , 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, reversed the WCJ’s finding and held instead that the extraordinary circumstances...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California: Compromise and Release and Medicare Set-Aside: Informed Consent and Assumption of Risk
Liability for future medical treatment for a work related condition cannot be transferred to Medicare without its permission In Alvarenga v. Scope Industries , 2016 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, the WCAB panel rescinded the WCJ’s order approving...
California Compensation Cases Staff
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California Workers' Comp Case Roundup (2/5/2017)
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 82 No. 1 Jan 2017 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ...
Brad Wixen
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California: Does a Home Care Assessment Constitute “Treatment” Subject to Utilization Review?
Fine Lines and a Glimpse at the Future In Rodriguez v. Simi Valley Unified School District, 2016 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 671 , applicant, a custodian, sustained injury at her employer. The injury was sufficiently serious that her treating physician...
LexisNexis Workers Comp Law Community Staff
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
NCCI Research Brief on Medicare Set-Asides and Workers' Compensation
NCCI has recently examined the demographics related to MSAs (distributions of amounts of MSAs and total settlements that include MSAs; distributions of ages of claimants) and the aspects of the CMS review process (length of time from submission to CMS...
Jennifer Jordan
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
A Healthier Workforce: The Hot Debate Over Employer Responsibility and Employee Incentives
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL LLC A Medicare set-aside (MSA) is sometimes like an exercise in accident reconstruction. And when the MSA gets ugly, as they frequently do, it is typically because of some factor other than the industrial...
Robert G. Rassp Esq.
over 9 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 have...
LexisNexis Workers Comp Law Community Staff
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Trends to Watch in Workers’ Compensation Law
At the National Workers’ Compensation & Disability Conference last November, Brad Bleakney, a partner with Bleakney & Troiani, and Lora Northen, a Shareholder with Capehart Scatchard, led a seminar on recent trends in workers’ compensation...
Jennifer Jordan
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Opt Outs to Workers’ Compensation: The Real Disconnect in What Is Being Said and What Is Being Implemented
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL, LLC The National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference generally serves as a pretty good barometer of what the industry focus will be in the upcoming year and it is evident that 2016...
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