Industry Insights
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Geaney: Legislation Increases Counsel Fees to 25% | 08/23/2024 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| On Thursday, acting Gov. Nicholas Scutari signed legislation increasing counsel fees for petitioners’ attorneys, from 20% to 25%. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Another Worker Heat Tragedy | 08/22/2024 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Last week, a UPS driver suffering from heat exhaustion crashed his truck. ...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Major Corruption Engulfs Cal/OSHA | 08/20/2024 | ||
| By: California Applicants' Attorneys Association | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Cal/OSHA, the California agency responsible for enforcing workplace standards, has faced significant challenges with corruption within its ranks. In 2018, Richard Fazlollahi, a district manager for Cal/OSHA's Santa Ana office, was arrested and later convicted for his role in a bribery...Read More | |||
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Young: Survivor Bills | 08/19/2024 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| On Thursday, two California workers’ compensation bills survived the August legislative suspense file graveyard. ...Read More | |||
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Speekenbrink and Peters: AI and Empathetic Workers' Comp Adjusters | 08/15/2024 | |
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| By: Tycho Speekenbrink and John Peters | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Marie, a dedicated workers' compensation adjuster, faces an endless stream of complex claims. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Nudging Parties to Choose Settlement | 08/14/2024 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At every stage in conflict resolution, parties face an array of choices, but they don’t always recognize them. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: What Happened to Micro-Captive Risk Management? | 08/13/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Micro-captive risk management was one of the hot topics until the 831(b) captives disappeared from the workers' comp insurance scene. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Mandatory E-Billing Approaches | 08/12/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York's Workers’ Compensation Board is asking providers to be proactive and get ahead of a major impending change: Electronic billing will be mandatory by this time next year. ...Read More | |||
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Johnson: SIBTF Study Is a Failure of Analysis | 08/09/2024 | |
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| By: Arthur L. Johnson | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At the beginning of the 20th century, the “grand bargain” was enacted. That grand bargain provided: ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC Defies Law, Botches WCIS | 08/08/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Without reliable data, no government can understand — let alone solve — the problems of any major system. Yet California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has openly defied California legislators and failed to gather vital workers’ comp data, in unabashed viol...Read More | |||
