AIG’s Post-Bailout Tax Suit Faces Jury Trial
By ADAM KLASFELD Since receiving a $182 billion bailout, the American International Group has been roundly mocked for lawsuits demanding more government money, but the insurer's lawyers agreed on...
View ArticleEEOC Issues Final Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues
On Monday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues, to replace its 1998 Compliance Manual section on retaliation....
View ArticleCalifornia to Implement Workers’ Compensation Drug Formulary by July 2017
The California Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Workers' Compensation (DIR/DWC) is on target to implement a workers' compensation drug formulary by July of next year as required by...
View ArticleGood Samaritan Protection Applies to More Than Health Care Professionals
Ohio’s Good Samaritan law applies to any person who administers emergency care or treatment at the scene of an emergency including, but not limited, to health care professionals, the Ohio Supreme Court...
View ArticleA ‘Fitting’ Survey on Ergonomics
In a recent survey of targeted industry professionals, the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Ergonomics Practice Specialty (ErgoPS) found that 38 percent of the respondents have been...
View ArticleWCI Briefs: 8.31.16
To save you time, here’s a sampling of workers' compensation and insurance news, each in 350 words or less. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has appointed Peter L. Hartt, director of...
View ArticleNew Reports in October: Are the Feds Positioning to Oversee Workers’ Comp?
By Robert Wilson There has been a lot of speculation in our industry about the Federal Government's appetite for intervening in the world of workers’ compensation. While most pundits and many...
View ArticleRegulator Focus on Driving Diversity in the Insurance Industry
This session at Business Insurance’s Absolute Inclusion Conference gathered industry regulators to discuss progress in creating a more diverse insurance industry. Dave Jones, Commissioner of Insurance,...
View ArticleReport: Immigrant Worker Exploitation in the Building Trades
by Julie Ferguson The issue of immigrant deportation is front and center in this year’s impending election. There’s a lot of anger and invective aimed at immigrant workers, today, both those who are...
View ArticleLASIE Endorses Surgeon General’s “Turn the Tide Rx” Campaign to Fight Opioid...
Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers Endorses Surgeon General’s “Turn the Tide Rx” LASIE Fights Opioid Misuse in Workers’ Compensation By: Helen Knight Patterson Baton Rouge, La. (October 4,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Orders Millions in “Legal Fees” Due As Part of Subro Recovery
By: Eugene Keefe Synopsis: IL Supreme Court Holds an Employer Has to Pay Statutory 25% Legal Fee on Unpaid TTD/PPD and Medical Benefits Even When Injured Worker Recovers Millions in Third-Party Claim....
View ArticleLaw Limiting Civil Juries to Six Vacated
By: Eugene Keefe Synopsis: IL Supreme Court Knocks Out IL Law Allowing for Six-Person Juries. Editor’s comment: Starting on June 1, 2015, all civil cases in Illinois were to be tried by a jury of six,...
View ArticleThe Flip Side of Regulations
By: John Wroten, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Compliance & Quality, Sedgwick What does the Joni Mitchell song ‘Both Sides Now’ have to do with workers’ compensation regulations? I’ve looked at...
View ArticleBid for WCRC with LMSA Capabilities Delayed by CMS
By Melanie Carrozza Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) solicited bids in an RFP for a Workers’ Compensation Review Contractor (WCRC) to review workers’ compensation...
View ArticleI Spy For Free Vol 2: Potential Pitfalls of Social Media Discovery
By Donald R. Barthel Welcome to the internet age. For those of you—like me—who are of a "certain" age, a life without computers has been replaced Google, email, texts, online shopping, instant...
View ArticleCMS Maintains Liability TPOC Threshold at $1000; Implements Workers’...
By: Heather Sanderson, Chief Legal Officer, Franco Signor As required by section 202 of The SMART Act, CMS is required to annually review its costs relating to recovering conditional payments as...
View ArticleUS Department of Labor Urges Major Changes in the Nation’s Workers’...
As The Path to Federalization of the US workers' compensation system broadens, the US Department of Labor has published a report urging expansion of the Federal role in reforming the entire patchwork...
View ArticleIllinois Workers’ Compensation Fraud Investigations
At the 2016 Illinois Self Insurers’ Association 38th Annual Educational Seminar and Membership Meeting, William Blumthal Jr, Deputy Director Investigations from the Illinois Department of Insurance,...
View ArticleAre the Florida Workers’ Comp Statutes Low Trust?
By: Tom Swiatek Our company, UniMed Direct, has had an initiative for 2016 based upon Stephen M.R. Covey’s bestselling book The Speed of Trust. Our team experienced FranklinCovey training, which we...
View Article2016 Kids’ Chance Awareness Week
Kids’ Chance awareness week 2016 is November 14-18, 2016. There will be activities throughout the United States to raise awareness of the need for scholarships and the impact of work injuries on...
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