Stressing the discretion allowed the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission in granting—or denying—an injured worker’s petition to settle and close out the medical portion of his workers’ compensation claim, a state... Read More

Where a hospital sent an injured worker eight separate invoices for charges related to his work-related injuries and, on two additional occasions, send invoices to a collection agency in an effort to collect monies owed for the worker’s treatment... Read More

In a deeply divided decision, the Supreme Court of Colorado reversed, in pertinent part, a decision by a divided division of the state’s Court of Appeals and held that a workers’ compensation carrier’s settlement with a third-party tortfeasor... Read More

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court, construing Wisconsin’s property exemptions law, Wisconsin Statute § 102.27, held that the sum of $400,000, which had been paid by the workers’ compensation carrier of the bankruptcy debtor’s employer into... Read More

An injured worker is not entitled to reimbursement for travel-associated toll charges and parking fees in connection with his or her employer-provided medical care, held a Delaware appellate court. The worker had been reimbursed some $761.20 for mileage... Read More

This is really the Ketevan Sophia Sensor Post. The little charmer above is none other than Mike Sensor's daughter, Ketevan....sometimes known as "Keti Spaghetti". This child is so popular, so precocious she has her own following on Twitter... Read More

A Mississippi appellate court held that the requirement that an employee exhaust his or her administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit for bad faith refusal to pay for disputed medical services and supplies merely ensured that the state’s Workers’... Read More

Last November, I had the pleasure of speaking at the 24th Annual National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas. My session was a spin-off of what has become one of my most popular annual blog offerings—a presentation... Read More

Where a West Virginia claimant was ordered by his claims administrator to attend a medical examination that was to take place some 100 miles from his home and the claimant spent six hours traveling to, attending, and returning from a medical examination... Read More

A claimant may recover pre-judgment interest against the second injury fund under "liberal" construction for unpaid bills of an uninsured employer, according the western court of appeals, reversing the Commission which found interest owed only... Read More

Panel Shows Benefits of Shifting Focus From Post-Injury Costs to Incident Prevention By John M. Stahl, Esq. An October 11, 2011, webinar entitled “ Injury Prevention & Pre-Loss Controls: A Paradigm Shift in Workers' Compensation, sponsored... Read More

How I spent my time at the National Workers’ Compensation & Disability Conference discussing the exclusive remedy doctrine By Deborah G. Kohl, Esq. As all workers’ compensation practitioners know exclusive remedy is the linchpin... Read More

An employer must pay almost $20,000 in medical expenses that resulted when a worker—a U.S. citizen—but whose native language is Spanish and who could not read or write English, could not communicate effectively with medical staff who in turn... Read More

A North Carolina appellate court recently held that non-FDA-approved drugs could not be categorically excluded from medical compensation under the state’s workers’ compensation system. The court noted that the text of the Workers' Compensation... Read More

Average amounts paid for California workers’ compensation medical expenses and indemnity benefits have risen sharply since accident year (AY) 2005 – the first year after the 2004 reforms – but in a hopeful sign that medical inflation... Read More