Thursday, April 4, 2013

Debate on Liens vs. Petitions Belies Reasonableness

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One of the big legal arguments going on now in California as a result of SB 863 is who exactly becomes subject to a lien filing or activati...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Freshman Texans and Boneheaded Proposals

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I've hailed Texas as a low cost workers' compensation state where insurance companies actually make an underwriting profit due to th...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Anecdotes and Extrapolations Paint Troublesome Picture

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The workers' compensation system is obsessed with costs. Reform legislation around the country is nearly uniformly about controlling c...
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Monday, April 1, 2013

Repackagers Win FL Case, Or Do They?

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The Florida 1st Court of Appeals (which handles all workers' compensation appeals in the state) concluded that a drug repackager, that ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

CA's AB 1138 - More Burdensome Paperwork

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Onerous, punitive and impractical - that's how opponents describe California's recently amended Assembly Bill 1138 - and I'm o...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Chronic Pain, Opioids and Physician Risk

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A few weeks ago I posted an opinion that Kentucky was leading the nation in the control of opioids. Referencing their prescription drug d...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Survey Shows Work Comp Foreign to Immigrants

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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported that a recent survey of immigrants on occupational health and wor...