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ILLINOIS Supervisor Compensated for Recreational Injury

How Would You Decide:  Illinois Fitness Supervisor’s Injury Playing “Wallyball” Found Compensable In Spite of Statute Barring Recovery for “Voluntary” Recreational Activity Here’s What Happened The employee
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Number 1 Drug of Choice Is Alcohol; Test-Measurable Alcohol Usually Slept Off Before Work

TWO KEY MYTHS ABOUT DRUGS and ALCOHOL USE Myth #1:     The best way to reduce workplace addiction commits most resources to catching abusers, so as ...
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Calif. Practitioners: Don’t Forget to Exhaust All Administrative Remedies Before Appealing

By Reid L. Steinfeld, Esq. and Richard Boggan, J.D. Petition for reconsideration (“Recon”): A legal process to appeal a decision issued by a workers' compensation judge. ...
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Ask the Doctor? - Utilization Review in Delaware

By Cassandra Roberts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP Today I have the pleasure of hosting guest blogger Michael Owen, Esquire of the Wilmington insurance defense law ...
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Insuring Disabled Seniors and The Public Option

Disabled workers over the age of 65 have difficult decisions to make concerning health insurance. Those who rely upon workers’ compensation and Medicare to cover ...
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Tuberculosis, Hep C and Illinois workers' compensation

Within the last week we have received a call from an emergency room doctor that has tuberculosis and a nurse that has hepatitis C.  They ...
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MISSOURI Undocumented Workers Fighting the System Seeking to Regain Contract Work

Janitorial Contractor Fights to Regain Business An Oklahoma-based  janitorial contractor who claims Missouri wrongly put him out of business two years ago over allegations he employed illegal immigrants ...
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Turbocharging Your Workers Comp Return to Work Program

For an employer,  the return to work process is no less daunting than that same process is to the injured worker.  While claims professionals and ...
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A D.O. Tells Us How To Make Workers Compensation IMEs More Useful

A Look at Today and a Quick View to Tomorrow Today Most of us  are aware at the macro level an Independent Medical Exam (IME) is a ...
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Drug Tips: Most Abused Drug for Children After Alcohol is Illicit Pain Relievers

2009 Drug Free Work Week Myth:     In 2006, the next drug-class abused after alcohol by individuals 12 years of age and older was THC (marihuana ...
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